Explore how anxiety can show up in your life, work, and relationships
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Big news! It's alive.
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new, wild experiment. It’s not one I could have predicted. It began as I added up my site costs for bevoya.com. One thing become clear: I have to figure out a way to break even while working on this project....And that's what this letter from me to you is about.
Try: Counting Bees, Spot Elephants, Discover a Planet
I heard about this idea on my new favorite podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression. On this episode, he talks to someone helps herself get out of slumps by logging onto Zooniverse, joining in on crowd-sourced research for great scientific, literary, historical, and artistic causes.
Try to: Keep a People Boundaries List
I wrote down some subheadings - Focus on, Beware, Be Cautious, Acquaintances, Non-Starters, One-way Streets, and Let Sleeping Moments Lie. Under each one, I put in as many as names as possible, including the two people from the last two days' roadtrip through Disappointmentia.
What is Mindfulness? A 7-Year-Old Breaks It Down.
If you haven't exactly understood what people mean when they talk about "mindfulness," you might get it this time. This is a very clear description of mindfulness by a 7-year-old who really understands it.
Try: Bringing Color Into Your Life
Last week, we saw housepainters priming the house out our back window. We were filled with curiosity (especially me, a curious cat for neighborhood haps). What color would they go with? Would it be "startup grey", the most common color of the San Francisco neighborhood where we live?
Migraines, Anxiety, and Magnesium
I take 400 mg of chelated magnesium every day in addition to the magnesium I get from eating foods like almonds and spinach. But it wasn't a simple path to figure out what kind of magnesium to take, or to understand what I should expect it to do.
Try to: Let Your Phone Die And Roam With A New Friend
My friend Nell posted this one on Facebook earlier today:
Great idea: Let your phone die for hours and walk around the city with a new friend like you're in your twenties. #bliss
The Epidemic of Perfectionism in Silicon Valley
My neurologist listened to my concerns and then replied, “This problem — the problem of perfectionism and anxiety — is getting bigger and bigger every day.”
She described seeing an average of three people a day suffering from some form of chronic physical pain who had one thing in common: perfectionism. “It’s extremely common in the tech industry,” she said. “These people are very successful. They want to do everything right.”