Month: December 2024

Do you ever have seemingly silly things that give you little jolts of happiness every time you see or think of them? I have always loved looking for and identifying those. I have a "Happy Book" full of them. A recent one for me is this vending machine here. I've wanted one in my clinic for a while, and for some reason, having one here now feels…

No surprise, but this past week I've been contemplating what I wanted my focus word to be for 2025, as well as critiquing how I think I did with my word from 2024. To be honest, not great for 2024. Or rather, I give myself mixed reviews. The word I chose was RECONNECT. At the end of 2023 I acknowledged that there were "many parts of myself…

Well, it had to happen sometime. I finally had to buy toothpaste. For those who may not have been following this blog for the past several years, an early grief trigger I had revolved around needing to buy toothpaste. (Sounds so silly to say that now, but at the time, it was hard.) I wrote about it in this blog post: https://stillbeingsmelted.com/i-now-lose-every-time/ After I wrote that post…