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Eat Cake For Breakfast

(or) how i'm making it through doctoral training

Tag: self-caring

Accountability check

It’s a new Gregorian year – 2019 – and as with all seasonal changes – a good time for me … More

Beginnings, DocStudentLife, doctoral student life, doctoral training, DoctoralTraining, health, mental health, PhD, PhD training, resilience, self-caring, Self-Reflection, sobriety

1 year later

365 days ago I made the choice to stop drinking. Today is my 1 year sober-versary. Last night, my partner … More

AA, alcoholism, balance, health, self-caring, Self-Reflection, sobriety

#JoyLit

This week my life has been lit up with joy. The magic began with my parents visiting for my 36th … More

Beginnings, gratefulness, health, LGBTQ, Queer, self-caring

time

I have  been writing and rewriting posts in my head for over a week. Last week I came up with … More

AA, alcoholism, balance, DocStudentLife, DoctoralTraining, home, PhD training, self-caring

mindfulness like fireflies…. or will-o-the-wisp

Emerging out of the woods, I imagine the fireflies are will-o-the-wisp. I am bidden to their light. Beside the tree. … More

mindfulness, self-caring, Self-Reflection

mea culpa

Wow! How easy it is to get out of the way of blogging – and not to return for A-G-E-S. … More

appendix cancer, balance, cancer survivorship, doctoral life, health, Love and Marriage, mental health, self-caring, Self-Reflection, social justice

#EffCancer (chapter 2)

It’s been a joy ride in the past 6 weeks. I’ve been told I have cancer. Told that they didn’t know … More

appendix cancer, cancer risk, cancer survivorship, eff cancer, fuck cancer, mental health, self-caring, Self-Reflection, surviving

the bravest things

Yesterday, I did the second bravest thing I have all year: I booked an 18-day trip to San Francisco for … More

balance, Beginnings, doctoral life, LGBTQ, mental health, Queer, self-caring, Self-Reflection

Old lady shepherd mama

The thing about being mama to an old lady Shepherd is that you learn to listen.  It doesn’t matter whether … More

doctoral training, dog mama, self-caring

A new semester… Year 2

Apparently it’s been 2 months since I blogged – so much for keeping this as a priority in year 1… … More

balance, doctoral life, doctoral training, mental health, PhD, self-caring

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