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One of the great things about doing a monthly roun One of the great things about doing a monthly round up 📸 is you'll start to notice patterns of the things that make you feel alive. September contains photographic proof that I: ⤵️ ⚔️ fought a child with a foam sword in a hardware store 🎹 played a public piano 🎯 tried darts for the first time + got a bullseye 👞 visited a house shaped like a shoe 📚 took the girls to a completely free bookstore 🖊️ wrote FEEL GOOD TO DO GOOD in Graffiti Alley 🧸 drove around Pennsylvania looking for vintage toys 🐕 attended trivia with a so many dogs (and brought toys for all!) 💗 spent 12+ hours turning hundreds of photographs into the story of Nick and me 📖 released my 4th book Plus temporary tattoo sleeves, Transformers, finger puppets, Costco samples, Lisa Frank stationery, 🩷& a tiny heart ring with an N on it. This is basically what I've been trying to explain with the Merriment Method. Feeling more alive has rarely come from sitting around thinking REALLY HARD about how to feel more alive. I just have to PARTICIPATE. 👇 Touch stuff. ✂️ Make things. 🚶‍♀️ Go places. 🎯 Try something new I have no opinion about. 🎈 Celebrate people in ways that make sense for them. 🖍️ Leave evidence I was here. And the best part is that even though EVERY day this month didn't feel like the ebst day of my life... I still remember that some days were wonderful. Even if some days were emotionally draining, expensive, or exhausting. ✍️ I mean, writing my book alone requires me to revist things I would rather leave buring in a filing cabinet with a lock and chain. 🔏😅 But writing my book exists right next to foam sword fights. 🤹‍♀️ It's all the same merry little life. Which is maybe why I think I've stopped being interested in chasing some permanent state of happiness. I just want to participate, play, and leave a trail of googly eyes next to a giant shoe. 👞 #MerrimentMaking #DayInTheLife #UncustomaryInTheWild #FeelMoreAlive #BaltimoreCreative
I think one of the weirder parts of being an adult I think one of the weirder parts of being an adult is realizing how many things you do that you never actually decided you liked. 🫠 Not even big stuff. Things like.. you’ve been parting your hair on the same side for 11 yrs. Or you say you’re “not really a _ person” even though you don't remember when you decided that and you're not sure if it's true anymore. I think we accidentally make a lot of tiny rules about ourselves like... This is flattering on me This isn’t “me" I’m not good at that I’m too old for this I would look stupid wearing that I can't cook I’m not creative And some of them ARE true! I’m not saying we all have secret passions for pottery and capri pants that society has beaten out of us. 😂 But some of them are just... old ideas. That someone else imparted to you or was true in 2017. This is a huge part of what I mean when I talk about Expression in the Merriment Method. I don't think you can actually “find your authentic self” because there isn't a complete version of you you'll find if you journal hard enough to excavate her.🪆 You can find a photo of what you wore a decade ago and remember feeling hot AF in it & now wonder why no one tried to stop you, or spend $200 on a hobby you make your personality for 6 months and now would pay NOT to do. Or you thought you'd never wear jeans again and now you like them. A little, anyway. Try, retry, edit, ditch it, learn, let the info change your clothes, house, relationships, boundaries, your Tuesday, & your concerning collection of rubber ducks. 🦆 I think THAT's expression. Anyway, your mission this week is to turn yourself up 5%. 📢 Pick one preference you normally ignore, dismiss, save for later, or hand over to somebody else and actually DO something with it. & if you want more places to fuck around with this, there’s an entire Expression section inside Strange + Functional with prompts, experiments & resources for figuring out what feels like you... including the stuff you haven’t tried yet. 💗 There's a 3-day free trial. #MerrimentMethod #SelfExpression #CreativeLiving #CreativeExpression
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.
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