So, just in case no one ever told you (or you need a reminder): YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LEAVE.
You can leave a date, a party, a job, a meeting, a commitment. You are allowed. If you’re worried about keeping your word remember that your boundaries are also your word, your integrity.
i hate it when people say "let's get rid of small talk, tell me about your hopes, your dreams, your failures, your greatest successes" however i do think you should be able to ask one person at every gathering "so what's your deal" and they should have to answer
"This man was forced to give his dog to Humane Society due to lengthy hospital stay. This nurse went to the shelter and adopted his dog. She brings him to visit daily & will return him as soon as the man is released!"
We are so scared as a society about talking and educating openly about what really happens to women’s bodies after delivery and it is absolutely because we are afraid that with more information more women would forego motherhood. That is a concept people just can’t cope with.
On Tuesday my mid child will be 6.5 years old.
I will be exactly 6 months away from paying off my 20% portion of her $1.2mil birth.
We can't be deciding as a country to force carrying pregnancies when we wont provide insurance that covers the cost.
Every so often I get contacted by a new company with a strategy to “fix the high cost of US healthcare.” They always sound pretty good, but then fall apart when you ask, “ok how does this help poor people?”
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This is what it took me until my last year of grad school to realize. I’m still regularly overwhelmed by how much I don’t know, but I no longer suffer from the delusion that everyone else in my position knows 5x more than me.
So we just not gonna talk about how long the fitness industry sold women literally everything except knowledge on how to properly fuel their bodies and prioritize strength training at every stage of life, orrr …
We typically can't control outcomes...
But we can engage in behaviors that make particular outcomes more likely.
This is true for our for relationships, health, finances, friendships, and more.
A profound shift in my life was the realization that what I'm doing in my life and work is simultaneously "good enough" and "never enough."
Both are true.
The "never enough" keeps me hungry.
The "good enough" gives me peace.