Tag: willpower paradox

  • COMPUTERS ARE THE WORST

    I had an upsetting thought today. I was going through photos and saw things from this time last year. And I was making things, and starting to kind of… heal. Not from trauma, just from the isolation of motherhood. But it was sad for two reasons. One is that my trauma damaged the friendship that…

  • I SPENT TWO AND A HALF HOURS IN AN ENCHANTED FOREST AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY SUNBURN

    Man, trying to outsmart the willpower paradox is hard! I’m trying to not try, man, I’m trying to not try to try as hard as I can! So I went to a different forest today. NOT the quarry, just to shake things up, do something a bit different. I decided that climbing a waterfall might…

  • WHEN IT’S TIME TO PARTY WE WILL PARTY HARD

    Last night I wrote some stuff about what happened this year. I didn’t publish it, but it was organised into a sort of timeline, so it helped me figure out some things. It made it clear when I first started to feel like I had to fix my trauma, urgently, or there’d be serious consequences.…