Tag: Goals
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The Waiting Game
It’s 2022, and I’m still stuck in limbo. What was supposed to be 6 months has turned into almost two years. It’s been one setback after the next with regards to my emigration. And things are moving so slowly… Damn the Coronavirus. At this rate, it feels like it’s not going to happen. But I’m…
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Celebrate Small Wins
I just read a short but valuable article on the TED blog, titled “How to make your small wins work for you”. What Mehrnaz Bassiri says in these couple of paragraphs is so true: “The problem, says Bassiri, doesn’t lie in the puniness of our accomplishments but in the outsized nature of our expectations. Whether…
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Small Steps Towards Healthy Boundaries
Today was a good day. I managed to do a few things that I wanted to, and my mood has been relatively stable. I wasn’t happy, but I also wasn’t depressed or sad. Not empty either. Just normal. I can’t remember ever feeling like this. Perhaps the mood stabilizer is finally working. Whatever it is, after the…
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Making Progress Even When You Can’t See It
A few sessions ago, I told my therapist that I finally felt like I was making progress. That therapy is finally helping me. She jokingly asked me if I was saying that therapy hasn’t helped me before that? I told her that the seeds had been there all along, but I just hadn’t been aware…
Journey Toward Healing 