Minds

For many people, activism induces as much anxiety as the disastrous news stories that compel us to keep doing it. So here's an activist’s survival guide!

There’s a reason I turn to Friends when I get depressed. Ok, I lied, there are several reasons.

We anxiety sufferers are good at covering up how we’re really feeling. You are not alone.

Self-care is a phrase so enthusiastically tossed about as of late that in many ways it has lost all meaning. In the same way “wellness” has gone, the concept now seems vague and fuzzy, somehow ineffable.

Who knew crying in bed with chocolate would change my life?

I am a lot of things; some people might think I am too many things. But I am all the things that you are, sometimes just in greater quantities. I am also worth loving.

We saw Hurricane Ike coming for days before it made landfall. It was just two short years post-hurricane Katrina, and all of south Texas and Louisiana were still reeling from her trauma. My husband and I began deliberating if we should stay or go. This is my story of surviving natural disasters.

I had forgotten: absorption is the best kind of self-care.