It’s time for me to write my daily blog post and I don’t have a topic.
My cat is telling me it’s time to feed her. It’s almost time for me to leave for the hospital to do my one in-person therapy group for the week.
When I look for a topic to naturally emerge from my images for today, maybe it’s time.
On this Festival of Popular Delusions Day, it’s time for me to accept the reality that not all of my blog posts are going to be as cohesive as I’d like.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s time for me to take a break from this daily blog, but then I realize that it isn’t!
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “it’s time.”
It’s time for me to ask for comments and to thank all who help me create these daily posts, including YOU!
Because today is Dictionary Day, what’s your guess for what “corybantic” might mean?
Before you get all corybantic trying to figure that out, here’s the answer:
Yesterday, after I gave a presentation to the nurses at my hospital about my groups which help people be less corybantic in the midst of corybantic circumstances, the power at several Boston hospitals, including mine, went out for several hours. Lest you get corybantic about how that affected patient care, I’ll remind you that hospitals are equipped to deal with such things with emergency generators and back up plans. However, I momentarily got corybantic when I couldn’t access my office computer from home, but then I realized there were work-arounds for that so I could still schedule people for my two online patient groups.
And even though we were afraid that our cat Joan would become corybantic when we put antibiotic ointment in her eyes (wouldn’t you?), the burrito technique I described in yesterdays blog post worked!
I will say that even when I have a corybantic day, blogging and sharing my thoughts with you definitely reduces my corybanticy.
Do you see anything corybantic in my images for today?
How corybantic are you feeling now? Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “corybantic.”
Corybantic thanks to all who help me be less corybantic, including YOU!
Yesterday, after a day when I was so busy facilitating a group for patients and then a group for health care workers who are so busy they really don’t have time to come to groups, I saw this at our veterinarian’s office:
Today, on my Thursday that is SO busy, I’m going to give a presentation to nurse practitioners at my hospital to encourage them to come to my group even though they’re so busy. I may share today’s Daily Bitch Calendar with them:
I hope you are not so busy that you don’t have time to look at my other so busy images for today.
I’m not so busy, even on my so-busy Thursday, that I can’t include another photo for Plant Appreciation Day.
I was so busy listening to the vet tech explain how to apply antibiotic ointment in both of Joan’s eyes twice a day, that I didn’t take a video of her putting Joan in a “burrito” to prevent her so busy legs from running away. Here is a so busy veterinarian on YouTube explaining how to burrito her cat:
Because my husband Michael makes burritos, I’m hoping he will be able to more easily restrain Joan’s so busy limbs for her twice-daily eye treatments.
Sometimes I’m so busy it takes me a few days to respond to comments, but I still hope you leave one about this so-busy post.
I’m never so busy that I don’t express gratitude to those I appreciate, including YOU!
Yesterday, after I watched Jimmy Kimmel Live! and was surprised by the miracle of Jeremy Renner‘s incredible recovery from his snow plow accident , I asked this question about miracles on Twitter:
Here’s the interview that inspired my question about miracles:
Do you see miracles in my other images for today?
Cancelling our noisy and unhelpful thoughts might be a miracle.
Today, after I witness miracles in my therapy group, we’re taking our cat Joan to the vet. If she doesn’t need medicated eye drops, that would be a miracle, and if we can apply eye drops easily, that would be a miracle, too.
What are your thoughts and feelings about miracles?
Thanks to all who help me believe in miracles, including YOU!
Here are some of the puzzles I’ve been working on:
How to get doctors to attend group meetings — that have been shown to reduce burnout — when they are too busy to attend.
How to balance my own self care with the care of others.
How to write and publish an article about my therapy groups.
How to move forward with my song-writing “career.”
How to fix the seemingly intractable 68 errors in the information that was supposed to automatically and seamlessly transfer to my income tax preparation software.
How to do a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle in a house with cats.
I’m realizing, here and now, that it helps me to reframe problems and obstacles as interesting puzzles I’m trying to solve, rather than potential sources of pain and failure. That way, I approach the day with curiosity and excitement, rather than with dread and worry.
Do you see puzzles in my images for today (as I try to fit the pieces together)?
I will try not to feel really stupid solving tax (and other) puzzles on Companies that Care Day, Freedom of Information Day, and Everything You Do is Right Day.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “puzzles.”
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Thanks to all who help me solve puzzles every day, including YOU.
I pointed out in a group yesterday that that women were interrupted way more often than men,
I have many wonderful women friends, including my life-long friend Barbara, whose birthday is today,
I know that women often have trouble accepting their own anger and their own awesomeness,
I’m very good at word games, and
as usual, I’m sharing the Daily Bitch Calendar and other images with you today.
I am woman and I’m glad I’m writing this post on Girls Write Now Day, International (Working) Women’s Day, National Be Nasty Day, and UN Day for Women’s Rights & International Peace.
Here’s what I find when I search for “I am Woman” on YouTube:
I’ve also been hearing this in my head as I’ve been creating this I-am-woman post:
I am woman and I am grateful to all the human beings who help me write this daily blog, including YOU!
Do you have a problem with my first image for today?
Do you have a problem reading what’s under “Hide” in that helpful diagram? Don’t worry.
Do you have a problem believing that when I first saw that diagram I thought I was supposed to hide if I had a problem?
Do you have a problem with the fact that I’m creating today’s blog post really quickly because I have to catch a train to NYC for a week-long group therapy conference?
Do you have a problem with any of my other images for today?
Do you have a problem believing that cheese doodles are one of my favorite snacks?
This week, I’ve been having many conversations with people about who gets our attention. Unfortunately, we tend to give a lot of attention to those who might be a threat to us, which makes sense from a survival standpoint but which also gives toxic people too much free rent in our heads. Also, toxic people crave attention and all the attention we give them inspires them to keep doing their toxic behaviors.
I remember a training group I participated in years ago where one of the group members was incredibly toxic — hateful, attacking, and constantly attention seeking. At the end of the training group, I gave the group leader this feedback — Why on earth did you give that guy so much of your attention? It gave so little room for the rest of us and that only made us hate him more.
And yet I see that pattern everywhere. Who does the media give attention to? Not people who are good role models or inspirational leaders. No. Again, we give our attention to the toxic attention seekers, the people who fill headlines with their bad behaviors.
If you doubt this, look who is getting attention in the news today. For the most part, it’s people I would happily never see or hear from again. (I’m not going to name their names because I don’t want to give them more attention.)
Who gets our attention in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “who gets our attention” on YouTube.
