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9 years ago @ Clever Manka - Mid-week check-in · 1 reply · +14 points

Yesterday at my therapy appointment, I realized that I'd had a breakthrough. A task that I'm supposed to do every week - and which I dread and procrastinate every week, which ultimately ends us with me not doing it and feeling like shit - has finally become "routine" for me! I can do the task without feeling anxious, without overthinking it and talking myself out of it. It sounds so simple, but it was a huge realization for me that the work I'd been doing on this one little task has finally paid off. Such a great motivator to continuing doing The Hard Things.

(I was a commenter at The-Dash-Toast, and a lurker here - but finally wanted to contribute to the Mid-Week Check-In! Thanks CleverManka!)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Hey Ladies: Take it to... · 0 replies · +23 points

I totally missed I'm having dinner with Gracie tonight!! Ahh why!!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 0 replies · +3 points

For me, the biggest fear was that a doctor would say "Oh no, you don't need meds. You're perfectly fine the way you are (aka miserable)." So I think you have the biggest problems already tackled - there are people in your corner who agree that medication will help you! And better yet, you know and understand that you need the help!

Figure out what your reward will be for scheduling the appointment (personal day from work, giant donut, giant salad, permission to lay on your couch and not talk to anyone for 2 hours after making the phone call). Then, go out there and kick some appointment-scheduling butt!!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 0 replies · +6 points

Jessica Valenti's piece Sunday Sauce, Saving Me. She is the reason I first identified as a feminist many years ago, and I love all her writing. This piece was so formative and powerful, and I think about it often. I'm so thankful she wrote it, and that The Toast published it.

9 years ago @ The Toast - If Barack Obama Were Y... · 0 replies · +41 points

I'm not emotionally ready for this one...

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +12 points

Sansa where did ur ears go?!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +6 points

YESSS TURTLE WEXLER. Off to search for longreads about The Westing Game...

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +4 points

Darn it, this story made me a little weepy at my desk. To be fair, everything is making me weepy. EOT (End Of Toast) = Peak Weepiness.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +4 points

This!! I somehow got $30 in Barnes and Noble e-book credit, which is an unexpected and happy bonus!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +25 points

My husband whisper-sings the phrase "wanna get married?" to our dog every night. It is hilarious to both of us to think that our dog wants to get married to my husband. It is probably horrifying to everyone else in the world.

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