Yesterday I spent the day pursuing stress free, mindless activities. I planted an indoor garden, read a book that did not try to fix me in any way, and watched two RomComs filled with escapism and lots of PDAs. I crawled into bed exhausted and as I was blissfully beginning to fall asleep my eyes popped open and I immediately regretted my life choices. I had been behaving like 2019 in a 2020 world, and friends that is not an option this fall. The art of keeping up with yesterday is no …
Operation Darwin, A Pandemic Battle Plan for Sanity
Well this is it, the second wave is officially upon us. It's time to suit up in your best leisure wear, tie your hair up in a scrunchie and cue up Ride of the Valkries. We are heading into the final months of 2020 and if this year has taught us anything, it’s that if it can get worse, it will. As I mentioned previously, we need to treat our mental health like a full time job this year because it is. This hasn't been just another run of the mill year after all. Between the pandemic, …
The Crush of Gravity – Some Days You Gotta Dig Deep
Today I woke at 4am, no longer able to escape the endless stream of worries invading my brain. In the bathroom, I glanced at the inspo quote on my shelf and quickly threw up an Instagram story, “Either U Run the Day or the Day Runs You.” No one needed to know that at 4:45 the day was already running me. Through the IG filter, it would just naturally be assumed that I was a goal digger, a bad-ass bitch running the long game. Yaaaasssss Queen. I already was dreading/laughing at the explosion of …
Simple Tips for Online Learning with Ontario Virtual School
As we embark on one of society’s biggest education experiments ever, with kids around the globe going back to school virtually this fall, I'm going to share some of the best tips for online learning that I’ve picked up and a virtual group hug, because this has not been easy on any of us. Last September, after a 28 year absence, I went back to school. I started taking psychology online at Queen’s and quickly realized that I had underestimated how hard learning online is. It wasn’t until …
Chasing Happy When You’re Sad
Finding happiness when life is running smoothly is easy. Being happy when you're sad, or when life is treating you like excrement on the bottom of it's giant cosmic shoe, is an entirely different story. It also begs the question, why on earth would you want to be happy when you're sad? Aren't you just suppressing your emotions by pretending your life doesn't suck a million lemons right now? The answer, as you might expect, is not black and white. Happiness is an emotion, and like all …
