The results of a meeting with my mother’s care team — I don’t know if I feel more angry or hopeless right now. I had a meeting this afternoon with my mother’s care team to discuss my concerns. I took a friend with me for support, but it still did not go well. In the meeting, everyone pretended to not understand…

Most people want one thing when they share their story — We process our grief when we share our stories. The last thing we want is for someone to dismiss our pain. Telling our story won’t change our circumstances, but when people listen with empathy, we feel understood. People want their story to be heard with empathy. Invalidating their experience I recently wrote this…

Sales and marketing dominate now—with a side of glitches — It’s time to face the facts. Medium is no longer a pure writing platform. What it’s become is a sales and marketing platform. Most stories recommended to me now follow one of these formulas: You can make lots of money doing X. Here’s how I made lots of money doing…

I don’t care anymore — Happy Saturday, and yay to losing more followers (bots?). Why is it so hard to get an update on why this is happening? Is it a secret? I will never understand the lack of transparency on this site. Since I’m losing followers anyway, I am going to experiment with different…

I am not in a good place tonight — Edit: Please do not tell me that my mother will stop eating with dementia. I KNOW this and do not need to hear it in the comment section. The point is, she’s eating now, and they should feed her when she’s hungry. Also, don’t blame this on Covid. I’m sick…

One simple reason — I’ve spent the day in another ridiculous battle with my mother’s memory care facility, so I’m in a BAD mood. I’ve had it with bureaucracies, so I’m going to show you why people on here write about Medium so much.

Anyone can do these things — I don’t know anyone who isn’t struggling right now. This post pandemic world is new and frightening territory. There is more uncertainty than ever in our lives. We all want to feel better, but happiness seems in short supply. What if you could start feeling better today? Would it be…

Now I know why my attention span is so short — Today in therapy, I learned the extent of how bad my previous therapist was. I had no idea she was making my anxiety worse. “She actually used the word distraction?” my therapist asked? “Well, yes,” I said, confused. “She told me to sit with my feelings until it became too…