Accountable Grace
“What could I do for you right now?” I froze. My mind spun, searching. Then I found a need I didn’t know I had: “Offer me accountable grace.”
Scary Septembers
This week brought a renewed focus on the importance of tending to my mental health.
🧠 #103: Pipes and puzzles
After another challenging week, I share a positive spike, taking my kids and winning the organ, and the return of sudoku.
🧠 #101: Tapering off everything
This update shares the effects of changing medication (not good!), an uplifting chance for sketchnotes, and continuing a couple helpful practices.
🧠 #99: Can’t get in
This update shares a vacation win, a vacation struggle, and a new sharing practice.
🧠 #97: Making friends
This week I share another step forward in my peacemaking with the monster that is OCD in my life.
🧠 #96: Confronting the criminal
In a shocking turn of events (🙄), allowing a known trigger into my life last week caused some issues. This week, I share how I confronted and adjusted, putting OCD to work for good, and sitting in the chemical experimentation phase.
🧠 #95: Experimenting with discomfort
This week included a reprise in my role as a limited-time stay-at-home dad, a chilly discovery, and allowing a known trigger into my life.
🧠 #94: Finding monkeys
This week’s update shares my experience with yet another psychiatrist and noticing my recent increase in OCD symptoms.
🧠 #90: Weighted jacket
This week I share a painful therapy experience when I came to recognize the compulsions in my mind.