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Category Archives: Health and wellness
Worse Than Death
Anniversary season has begun. “This time last year…” But that is not why I’m writing this. Well, it is and it is not why I am writing this. Two important movements are happening in North America right now, both of … Continue reading
18 Things No One Told Me About Being an Adult
I don’t know if this is a list of things I wish someone had told me when I was young or if people told me these things and I didn’t listen. Or maybe it’s a list of things about being … Continue reading
Posted in General, Health and wellness, Life
Tagged adulthood, how to be an adult, what no one told me when I was a kid
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Panic in the Control Room
February 2, 2016 Today I’m writing from the base of Mount Shasta, in California, in the world’s most comfortable chair, looking out over a trout pond ringed by patches of snow and sturdy pines. This is the second-to-last stop on … Continue reading
Bounce Bounce Bounce
At a tennis lesson two weeks ago, the coach gave us a little talk about the importance of positive self talk while on the court. Even the best in the world are not immune to those moments when flubbing an … Continue reading
Posted in Grief and Mourning, Health and wellness, Sports
Tagged bouncing back from tragedy, sports psychology, tennis
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Why Your Weight Loss Resolution Will Fail
We are one week into the New Year, which means we are one to two weeks from most people giving up on their New Year’s resolutions. Maybe that sounds cruel but I am not a fan of New Year’s resolutions. … Continue reading
Yes, I Have a Problem
At 3am in Las Vegas, vomiting Asian Lettuce Wraps and Don Julio tequila into a hotel bathrobe, four words came through my drunken fog loud and clear: I need to stop. Four little words that I recognized, even in the … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Grief and Mourning, Health and wellness, Travel, USA
Tagged alcoholism, drinking too much, epiphanies, facing problems, grief and drinking
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Creepy Creepers and How Not to Be One
While doing some housekeeping behind the scenes of these Coconut Chronicles, I stopped to read some of my old posts (I swear I’ll get around to re-formatting them some day). Overlooking some of the more egregious grammatical errors, it was … Continue reading
Happy
I had this idea for a really long blog post about how I’ve been having more and more moments of happiness lately and how I can finally feel the magic power of time starting to do its thing. I thought … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Grief and Mourning, Health and wellness
Tagged grief, happiness, puppies
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Mind Killer
What scares you? Not in the big, metaphorical sense but in an immediate, palm-sweating, heart racing kind of way. Spiders? Heights? Water? In Frank Herbert’s classic novel, Dune, fear is described as “the mind killer”. There is some truth in … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Environment, Health and wellness, Life, Love, Nature & Environment, News and politics, Ocean, Travel
Tagged Conquering fear, fear is good, illogical fear, Syrian refugees
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Here and There
Unlike some other adoptees, who grew up under a cloud of abandonment issues, my “rootless” status always left me with a feeling of absolute possibility. My borders were not defined. I did not look at my parents and see my … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Health and wellness, Nelson - British Columbia, Travel
Tagged Campbell River BC, grief, moving while grieving, Nelson BC
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