Adventure is Out There!

Hope everyone is staying home and flattening the curve! If you're able to, I urge you to please, please, PLEASE stay home. For all of our sakes, please stay home. My fiance has respiratory issues so he is at high risk for contracting COVID and I am immunocompromised so I am also at risk. I really only leave the house for absolute necessities like groceries and I make sure to sanitize the carriage, keep my distance from the handful of other shoppers when I go at 8AM on Saturday, and I wash my fruit and veggies thoroughly when I get home.  I've been exceptionally fortunate that I haven't had any symptoms in the year and a half-ish that I have been dealing with this diagnosis of cancer.  Recently I started having some lower back pain.  It began as a dull pain or stiffness, and now it's a sharp, battering pain that flares up about once every two weeks or so. It doesn't give me any warning, however.  It's not as if I slept wrong in a strange position or lifted an ...

People don't like things that make them feel uncomfortable.  As humans we appreciate things that fit neatly into boxes, tied up with a bow, clearly defined.  Life is a culmination of black, white, grey and every combination in-between.  Sometimes that grey matter is feeling sad, and I am here to tell you that IT'S OKAY. It's okay to feel sad.  It's okay to feel sad in the same way that it is okay to feel happy about the first sip of coffee in the morning, or relieved when you walk through the front door after a long day, or devastated when a loved one dies.  It's okay to feel sad without a specific reason why, too. It's important to let yourself feel anything and everything.  At the end of the day, the most important part is how we cope with it.  Allow yourself to feel what you feel, and then acknowledge that this is the way you're feeling.  If there is a reason why you're feeling anxious at work, maybe break the tasks into manageable bites....