Tag: sick
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When Faking It Doesn’t Work
Well, I *thought* I’d avoided the worst of the later winter crud – I had not. Yes, the fever broke and I took a few days to recover some strength then I went back to work at full steam. Because of course I did. I’m Very Important, don’t you know. Sigh. I am an educated Diva,…
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Of Bugs and Peace
You can take all the care in the world and yet – sooner or later, a bug is gonna get you. In my case, I’d dodged the “bad crud” for quite a while, but my luck ran out last week when I got walloped by everything all at once. Even now, I’m not quite 100%,…
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Breathless
Often, self-care is about incorporating small moments of grace into an average, ordinary day in order to slow down and remember why you work so hard. Sometimes those small moments of grace need to give way to longer, more intense experiences – I often find that to be the case after finishing a large scale…