I have recently discovered that I am a master of deception. Self–deception primarily.
I finally realized this about myself after waking up for the 100th night in a row, wracked with anxiety and stress from multiple known and unknown sources that I have become incredibly skilled at ignoring my emotions.
Published in The Curious Mind, Medium – July 2018
Our minds these days seem to be perpetually full. Full of our to do lists, full of our expectations and full of our judgments of everyone and everything; including ourselves.
You know that feeling when you just can’t find the right words?
Yep – as a story-worker I have it all the time.
The sun shone down, hot and revitalising on my head and shoulders. And the summer breeze whispered through the coin shaped leaves of the Aspen tree’s, gathered like old friends around the flowing waters of the spring.