Last week I learned that I’m apparently one of the 15-20 percent of people in the world who can be categorized as “highly sensitive people.” This was news to me, but now that I’m aware of it, few things have made more sense to me in my life. Scientific American describes highly sensitive people (a term introduced in 1997 by researchers Elaine […]
There are two platitudes doled out when it comes to comes to control-freak behavior: “just go with the flow,” or some variation of “control yourself, dammit!” On their own, though, neither of these are particularly helpful. It took me a long time to realize how many of my problems were (and still are) rooted in a need for […]
We need to talk about procrastination. Yes, again. I’ve written about it before, but seeing as it’s basically a silent epidemic, we need to talk about it some more. My past two weeks were packed to the brim with obligations and deadlines, and instead of making me more efficient out of necessity, the stress morphed me […]
I was on the phone with my mom the other day, pondering aloud whether switching dentists was a regrettable thing to do, when I mentioned that in a way, I’d feel a bit guilty about making the change. After all, when you trust someone enough to get up in your business and clean your teeth […]
Odds are, you’re a worrier – or at the very least, someone really close to you is. In many ways, the average human life in 2015 is safer and easier and healthier than human life has ever been, and yet, most of us devote massive chunks of our energy worrying about all the bad stuff that […]
