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How to Choose the Perfect Gift for Anyone on Your List (Even a Grinch)
There’s something I haven’t told you about me… I’m actually a superhero! My superpower is picking the perfect gift. However, most of my extended family doesn’t celebrate gift-giving holidays. So, I’ve decided to put my powers to use by teaching you how to give the perfect gift to anyone on your list, even your 85-year-old…
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How To Keep A Mood Log in a Weekly Planner
Do you have a planner at home that you’ve written in for a few weeks and then abandoned? You know, the one you bought for half price at the craft store with a crap ton of stickers and washi tape and brush pens and then never touched after January 20th? Are you convinced that you’ll…
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Self-Compassion the Winchester Way
I was talking to my therapist on Tuesday, as I always do, and I mentioned that I’ve been reading about self-compassion, but I wasn’t finding it very helpful. The key piece of advice it seems to be based upon is “comfort and reassure yourself the way you would a trusted friend who has the same…
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Simple Does Not Equal Easy and Other Really Annoying Truths About Dieting
A friend of mine recently mentioned the book The Fuck It Diet in a Twitter thread and it inspired me to reread it. I remembered loving the first three-quarters or so when I first read it a couple months ago, but I got pissed when the writer acknowledged that she had always benefited from…
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In Which I Use Pac-Man As a Metaphor for Depression
{Content warning/Trigger warning: depression and depressive thinking} I suppose I should start this entry by apologizing for the two and a half months of radio silence. I’m truly sorry that I’m unable to write on a consistent schedule due to my persistent depression. Currently my primary mental health diagnosis is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), but…
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Am I The Only Supernatural Fan Who Hates to *Watch* Supernatural?
My relationship with Supernatural is…unconventional, to say the least. It’s not so much a TV show anymore, but I wouldn’t say it’s a “lifestyle,” exactly. For me, it’s more of a family member—and a toxic one, at that. I hear people say that Supernatural is their go-to TV “comfort food,” and I wanna know what…
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Why I’m as Impervious to Praise as Winchesters Are to Death
Praise has become meaningless to me. Because I grew up being praised only for obvious facts, like being smart (I was the class valedictorian) and being a good writer and speller (I won several awards for both), I quickly learned that real praise had to *feel* true to be true. Therefore, praise that doesn’t feel…
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Supernatural Doesn’t—And Shouldn’t—Have To Be For A Lifetime
I have a number of different callings. And I think it’s possible to be called away from things I have been called to in the past. There are goodbyes as well as hellos in our callings. Because a calling doesn’t have to be for a lifetime. — Barbara Brown Taylor, The Path Made Clear Jensen…
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The Painful Paradox of Being a 250-Pound Fangirl in a $250 Photo Op
This weekend (March 8-10) is the Creation Supernatural convention in Nashville, also known as #SPNNash or #NashCon . Creation’s next con, in Las Vegas, is only a couple weeks later, and that means I’ve begun to see tweets on my Twitter timeline discussing one’s intention to crash diet to look better in (very expensive) photo…
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How To Ride an Emotional Roller Coaster Without Getting Sick
Man, it’s been a hell of a weekend. For me, the weekend started Thursday afternoon, when the first videos of Jensen Ackles as Bacchus LI arriving in New Orleans started to pop up on Twitter and Facebook. Friday was Jensen’s 41st birthday, and he spent it at the Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, visiting patients,…