mental health – Page 3 – Jeffrey A. Nelson

With Boredom Comes Opportunity

The week between Christmas and New Year’s, aka “Dead Week,” is one of my favorites of the year. It’s an automatic vacation week for me, but even when it wasn’t, I still loved the unstructured, liminal feel of it. There’s little, if anything to do, and I relish that since there’s usually so much toContinue reading “With Boredom Comes Opportunity”

Replace Thoughts with Sleep

I’ve struggled with insomnia since my college days. Its severity ebbs and flows, but I can point to a few times when it’s been especially bad. Sometimes, I’m kept awake by specific issues. Something is so prominent in my life, or at least in my mind, that I can’t let go of it enough toContinue reading “Replace Thoughts with Sleep”

One Word 2025: Center

“Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.” – Barbara Ann Kipfer For over a decade, I’ve been forgoing New Year’s resolutions in favor of choosing a single word by which to live. As life goes, this practice has been more successful in certain years thanContinue reading “One Word 2025: Center”