You Don’t Need to Stress-out Trying to Make Everyone Happy
For years, I felt the stress of turning the world upside down to make sure those around me were happy. If someone was frustrated or disappointed, I felt responsible, as though it were my job to fix it or somehow engineer their emotional state. It was an exhausting, impossible task, and for a long time […]
What My Bathroom Scale Taught Me About True Joy
I’ve been trying to lose weight for a while now, watching what I eat and disciplining myself to work out regularly. I know the scale is not the ultimate measure of health, but it is one measure of progress. So one morning, when I stepped on the scale and saw that I had dropped three […]