By Jennifer Senior — 2021
Pandemic life has made us feel more insecure about the aspects of our parenting we were already most insecure about.
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Because I’m at ease with my disability and have grown to understand my limitations, it’s been easier for me to figure out solutions to what might be everyday obstacles to other people.
Failure can increase resilience and spur creativity, among other advantages.
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When it comes to creating a great work of art, practice makes perfect.
A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
In the midst of trauma, everything means something. Signs and symbols appear. You’ve noticed them before, you’re a writer, but now you see them everywhere.
Many teens get into trouble because of an inability to appropriately discharge feelings of intense anger. Teens become angry for various reasons and express these feelings in a multitude of ways, but all have in common the struggle of experiencing a painful emotion and not knowing how to manage it.
It takes strong insight and often a good deal of courage to break away from our habitual ways of looking at things, to be able to respond from a different place.