Curious Findings

Are you taking care of yourself?

June 28, 2020

If you had to rate yourself from 0 to 10 on how well you are taking care of yourself, what score would you get? Today I woke up tired. Actually, exhausted would be a more honest word. The reality is that I have been some iteration of exhausted all of this year. I do not […]

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I think I am having a flare up! Will I die?

May 14, 2020

I woke up today having flare up. To make it clear, a flare up refers to an exacerbation of chronic illness symptoms. In many ways I think I caused it because I started experimenting with fermented wheat again. When I did an elimination diet a few years back it was revealed to me that wheat, […]

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October 10 – World Mental Health Day

October 7, 2016

I was tagged on twitter by @AwareAfrica to hold up a sign and upload a picture using a hashtag but I thought I would try and do a bit more due to an InsideJob Video I saw on Facebook. This led me down the rabbit hole of trying to find statistics about mental health in […]

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Becoming you – I am okay with myself

September 13, 2016

I am all for and about change. If there is something you don’t like, I believe in taking active steps to change it when you get the chance. When I mention change here, I do not mean the outward things like your job, friend circle or where you live. I mean the things at your […]

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Grieving – It is okay to be sad or depressed

September 12, 2016

Grief is an emotion that I have only heard used in the context of death. When someone close to you passes on, it is common to expect those who are close to the diseased to grieve. That traditionally comes with deep rooted rituals that mark the event. Recently, I have been wondering about grief. I […]

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The Chronic Pain Tag

September 11, 2016

I stumbled upon this for the first time a few months ago. I was going through Annie Elainey’s youtube videos. Previously I had seen a few of her videos but I did not know about her struggles with chronic pain and being disabled. It was quite inspiring and I thought I would do my own […]

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Instagram and Depression – They know how you feel?

September 9, 2016

The same way we were blissfully unaware of the effects of eating processed foods after the war, I have equally wondered about what the data being collected on all of us that use social media will yield in the near future. Last week I stumbled upon an article of some research that came out of […]

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Brutal Acceptance – I am enough

August 18, 2016

I recently finished a round of CBT. I went looking for therapy 2 and a half months ago because I was feeling off. I had no words for it at the time but now I know that it is called depression and it was brought on by my image of myself. This lead to a […]

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Remaining Focused – Chasing 2 Rabbits

August 9, 2016

About a year ago, I heard this quote for the first time. The man saying it was quitting a job he had worked in for many years and explained that it was because he had a dream he was pursuing part time. He wanted to put all his energy into that dream because he felt ready […]

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Trauma – What is it? What effect does it have?

July 12, 2016

Recently I have been fascinated with trauma. As I dig deeper into the recesses of my mind, I realize that most of my personality traits have a direct link to traumatic events in my past. I can almost track them to the exact day and time. This video was quite interesting and while I watched it, […]

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