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First Aid for Seniors: Choking Response and Care Home Readiness

First Aid for Seniors: Choking Response and Care Home Readiness

by Uncustomary | Jun 23, 2026 | How To

Few things are as frightening as watching someone choke. Your heart races, your hands shake, and your mind can go blank. If you care for an older parent, partner, or community resident, that reaction is normal. A calm plan, practised ahead of time, helps you act more...
A Practical Guide to Building a Balanced Fitness Routine (with Weight Loss and Protein Support)

A Practical Guide to Building a Balanced Fitness Routine (with Weight Loss and Protein Support)

by Uncustomary | Jun 23, 2026 | How To

Getting healthier does not need to start with punishment. You do not need brutal alarm clocks, rigid meal plans, or guilt after a missed session. A balanced routine can begin with small, realistic steps you can repeat this week without buying a lot of gear or changing...
Tips to Consider When Choosing Eco Friendly Tote Bags for Your Business

Tips to Consider When Choosing Eco Friendly Tote Bags for Your Business

by Uncustomary | Jun 22, 2026 | How To

Today, businesses and consumers have learned the importance of sustainability. Because of this, businesses are choosing better packaging for their consumers. They are doing this by providing eco friendly tote bags. This, in turn, has helped them retain customers,...
Why Urban Trees Are One of the Best Investments a City Can Make

Why Urban Trees Are One of the Best Investments a City Can Make

by Uncustomary | Jun 20, 2026 | How To

Cities across North America are increasingly recognizing that the green infrastructure growing along their streets and parks is not a luxury but a necessity. Urban trees provide measurable economic, environmental, and public health benefits that few other municipal...
What Steps To Take In The First Week After A Personal Injury In Duluth, GA

What Steps To Take In The First Week After A Personal Injury In Duluth, GA

by Uncustomary | Jun 20, 2026 | How To

Most injury cases collapse not because of what happens at the scene, but because of what fails to happen in the seven days that follow. The first 168 hours dictate the trajectory of a civil claim. While physical recovery takes priority, physical evidence vanishes,...
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Monday reminder that there are some fabulous, whol Monday reminder that there are some fabulous, wholesome humans out there. 💁🌏🦸‍♀️ Hands up for the Merriment Makers. 🙌

#MerrimentMemes #WholesomeHumans #WholesomeMemes #KindnessIsFree #RestoringFaithInHumanity
I'm going to share a little trick with you I use i I'm going to share a little trick with you I use in coaching... 🤐

When you become aware of one of those silly, stupid, nutso thoughts your brain has (and is being VERY convincing about, so you start to believe), I want you to roleplay as an attorney. 👩‍⚖️ 

So maybe your brain is tricking you into believing 🤔 "you always fail", "there's never any point in trying", or "you're so ugly"...

Try to argue against the thought as if you're cross examining it. ⤵️

💯 "Oh REALLY? Well, would you say that's objectively true 100% of the time?"
📐 "Could you make the argument that this isn't grounded in something measurable?"
👥 "You're telling the jury that you have NEVER heard the opposite?"
📁 "I submit to you, Exhibit A: where the defendant actually did accomplish her goal."
🔮 "You aren't a mind reader, correct? So you are asking this court to accept your guess as a matter of fact?""
👩‍⚖️"YOUR HONOR, HERESAY!"
👭 "If a friend came to you with this exact same situation, you wouldn't use this harsh tone with them, would you? So why is your testimony so heavily biased?"
🎭 "So your entire argument rests purely on an emotional feeling, rather than documented fact?"
⚖️ "Objection. Speculation! Move to strike!"

Try it out. I've seen wonders with cognitive reframing. If you want help, apply for my mentorship to work with me one on one. 📎👩‍💻website 

#PlayfulPsychology #CognitiveReframing #SelfTalk #LimitingBeliefs #SelfSabotage
Happy Birthday to my favorite person of all time, Happy Birthday to my favorite person of all time, Nick! 🎉

I'm so glad I met you and came back to you.

You're loyal, witty, silly, generous, strong, and so, so pretty.
- 🎰 gamify your goals - 🧮 try to beat your highes - 🎰 gamify your goals 
- 🧮 try to beat your highest score
- 🪎 rack up points for completing tasks
- 🪙 trade in points for rewards
- ⏳ track your time spent on an app like habitica 
- 🌳 use a reward sticker chart (forest app trees grow)
- 🕹️ act like your life is a video game
- ⏱️ set time limits
- 🎲 wheel or dice for tasks
- 🎯 set challenges
- 🤼‍♀️ compete against someone else
- ⚖️ batch something fun with something less fun
- 📲 play Pokémon go if you’re trying to get exercise or get out of the house
- 🧽 channel Pippi Longstocking when you’re doing chores 

#merrimentmaking
My wanting and my choosing are both tied into: ex My wanting and my choosing are both tied into:

expression, creativity, communication, ideas, play, words, messages + being heard.

It's not just what turns me on. Well, it is. But it's mostly what makes me feel ALIVE? Magnetically, acutely alive.

The answer, in part is: say it. name it. write it. communicate it.
After a statistically improbable amount of evidenc After a statistically improbable amount of evidence that being alive can be absolutely brutal... 🥴

🙏  I still want to see what happens next.

That's what I mean by strange hope. 🦆

🌻 First essay drops tomorrow!!
✍️ For a year, I'm writing an essay a week! I bel ✍️ For a year, I'm writing an essay a week!

I believe the best art is detailed and honest. And that's what I can promise you this will be. 😅

🧮 The truly statistical improbable thing is that after an improbable amount of evidence that life can be absolutely fucking brutal... I still have hope. 🙏

If you're someone who also feels like their life has been a polycrisis, you're not alone. 😵‍💫

I want you to know that no matter what your life has been like, it doesn't have to end you. ☔

First essay drops on 📅 Thursday.
When I was writing my first book (over ten years a When I was writing my first book (over ten years ago!) 🖊️ I didn't think I had lived enough to write a full-on memoir.

Now, I feel differently. 😅

❣️ New essay drops every Thursday!
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