Hi friends! My therapist gave me homework this week: write down my wins. This will not surprise most of you, but I constantly have the feeling of “I should be doing more.” Anxiety fueled by living in a capitalist society? Possibly! Well, probably. Of course, I am critical of what I count as a “win” having been raised with the idea that something like an A- is not a win. So I’m trying to acknowledge and celebrate things that are wins, no matter how “small.” For example, we are almost halfway through 2021 (how????) and I am almost halfway to my reading goal for the year:

Another win is that I have been able to wake up early to take my wife to work each morning this week. This is actually a gigantic win because I am not a morning person in the first place and my meds often make me super slow to get going after I wake up.

Today I want to talk about our responsibility to take care of ourselves with regard to mental health. Specifically our responsibility to ourselves to heal or at least, work on healing.