Volume 1, Issue 21: So Many Thoughts, So Little Me
Hi friends! How’s everyone doing? It feels like an entire lifetime worth of news cycles has happened since my last newsletter. It’s Friday the 13th which is...
Volume 1, Resources 20: This Week Has Been The Longest Year
Hi friends! This week. Wow. gif of elderly Rose from the film “Titanic.” She is saying, “It’s been eighty-four years” So I had a pretty great plan for self-...
Volume 1, Issue 20 1/2: Special Issue for Election Day Prep
Hi friends! There are a couple of things that just can’t wait until Friday’s newsletter. First of all, I wanted to stress the importance of making a self-...
Volume 1, Issue 20: Let's Help Future Us
Hi friends! First a quick note: this newsletter has a fancy new url and can be found at www.theinfophile.com. Happy Halloween! My favorite holiday though...
Volume 1, Resources 19: Feminist Book Rec & Self-Compassion
Hi friends! At the time of writing this newsletter, I am still riding the high of my last weekend at FIYAHCON, the first convention put on by Fiyah Literary...
Volume 1, Issue 19: On Breathing
When I was a child, one of my aunties would have strategically placed post-it notes throughout her flat. They’d be on walls, cabinets, bookcases, and mirrors...
Volume 1, Resources 18: Covid-19 White House Data Viz, iChill, & Stopping a Coup
Hi friends! I’m writing this the night of the VP debate here in the U.S. Today at work, my manager asked if I was going to watch the debate. My response was,...
Volume 1, Issue 18: I Do Not Have a Dream Job
Hi friends! I don’t know about you but I am finding it increasingly difficult to be motivated to do anything right now. Work. Get out of bed. Reply to texts...
Volume 1, Resources 17: Vowing Not to Burn Out, Tea & Empathy Cards, & 50 Ways to Reach Out
Hi friends! What Ashley C. Ford says in this Instagram post is a lot of what I’m feeling: smashfizzleI don’t have advice for you. Lots of people much smarter...
Volume 1, Issue 17: An Honest Coping Skills Check-in
Hi friends! By the time this newsletter goes out, I will have been sheltering in place for 191 days. Sometimes I feel okay and recently came across this...
Volume 1, Resources 16: Re-Orientation & Reality Check, Pandemic Round-Up, Surge Capacity, & More Mental Health Resources
Hi friends! As you know, I am in the San Francisco Bay Area. As you may also know, a whole lot of California is on fire right now. When my wife left our...
Volume 1, Issue 16: The Most Difficult Boundaries
Hi friends! I’m trying out a new time for sending the newsletter so thanks for bearing with me. Today I wanted to write a bit more about boundaries because...
Volume 1, Resources 15: More Antiracism, Self-Care, & Therapy
Hi friends! There’s a lot going on right now in the U.S. and I’m having a hard time finding anything to say that isn’t just screaming incoherently and...
Volume 1, Issue 15: 8 Myths About Boundaries
Hi friends! Well, fire season in California has started. There are over 360 wildfires currently burning in California. We have kept our windows closed all...
Volume 1, Resources 14: Doomscrolling & COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment
Hi friends! I am overwhelmed. I’m taking Friday (newsletter day!) off my day job this week which means it was a 4-day work week for me. I have had 17...
Volume 1, Issue 14: The One Where I Am A Snail Mail Evangelist
Hi friends! Today I want to write about something very, very important to me: snail mail. “But this newsletter is about self-help and being a better person....
Volume 1, Resources 13: Breathing Techniques & More Antiracist Resources
Hi friends! How’s it going? There are a few things that have been keeping me going and bringing me joy lately and I want to share them. The first is that my...
Volume 1, Issue 13: On Speaking Up for Ourselves
Hi friends! How are we all holding up? I am currently having a cup of hot chocolate that is mostly whipped cream. Yes, it is late July. Yes, I am in the...
Volume 1, Resources 12: Affordable Prescriptions
Hi friends! It’s resource week! A couple weeks ago I wrote a bunch about therapy from why someone might go to therapy to how to afford therapy if you don’t...
Volume 1, Issue 12: On Ritual and Creation
Hi friends! In the before times, I would frequently wear a bold lipstick. But now I am wearing a mask when I leave the apartment so I’ve stepped up my...
