Does it sometimes feel like you have nothing to create or don’t know what to do? Or maybe you do know but don’t have the motivation to do it. Call it writer’s block, creative block, photographer’s block, or whatever. Let me reignite that flame. Do it for you Challenge yourself every day with your craft. […]
Motivation to keep creating
Posted by Jacqueline on December 13, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/13/motivation-to-keep-creating/
Phan Nhiên Hạo is a Vietnamese-American poet and translator, living in the United States. He was born in Kontum, Vietnam, came to the US in 1991 and now lives in Illinois. — Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.
Phan Nhiên Hạo | A Guide on how to write (6)
Posted by Jacqueline on December 13, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/13/phan-nhien-hao-a-guide-on-how-to-write-6/
Many of us struggle with feelings of self-loathing and even self-hatred. It is not uncommon to feel this way and even to mutter the phrase “I hate myself” to ourselves or perhaps a reflection glancing back at us through a looking glass. Please stop – if not for the sake of yourself, then stop for the sake of those who do love you.
Posted by Jacqueline on December 13, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/13/the-struggle-for-self-love/
This article from Bitch Media is so good I felt the need to share it here in its entirety. You can also view the original post here.
by Sarah KishpaughPublished on September 6, 2018 at 10:20am
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Read the full post »Posted by Jacqueline on December 7, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/07/insult-to-injury/
As we round out the latest year in the twenty-first century, most people these days are familiar with the acronym “TBI” standing for “traumatic brain injury.” Most of us know someone who has one. We may even have a TBI survivor in our immediate or extended family. Perhaps you are even a survivor yourself. Whatever your relationship to TBIs may be, you likely know some of their most common causes.
Posted by Jacqueline on December 7, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/07/surviving-a-brain-injury-and-domestic-violence-is-not-an-unlikely-combination/
After surviving something as traumatic as a brain injury, it can sometimes feel as though life should not go on. In some sense – life will never be the same as it was before. Often people’s personalities change with a brain injury. This can be the most difficult change for survivors as well as their loved ones. It challenges a person’s very sense of self.
Posted by Jacqueline on December 6, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/06/life-after-a-brain-injury/
My favorite Robin Williams movie is leaving Netflix at the end of 2021, so before it goes I had to watch this film at least once more.
Posted by Jacqueline on December 5, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/05/movie-review-what-dreams-may-come/
“Our Souls at Night” is a beautiful Netflix Original film based on a novel by Kent Haruf. The story tells the tale of two older single adults living next door to one another in a small town and what happens when one of them (Addie played by Jane Fonda) has had enough loneliness and reaches out to her neighbor Louis (played by Robert Redford).
Read the full post »Posted by Jacqueline on December 5, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/05/movie-review-our-souls-at-night/
Since my 2013 wedding to Richard Lee Kodadek (DOB 01/03/1981), I have been struggling to recover from a traumatic brain injury I sustained as a result of that relationship. Granted, I did not know this is what I was struggling with until several years later. I was told repeatedly by many doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and my husband himself that I was “just” wrestling with depression, anxiety, and mood instability. The fact of the matter is that in a single day, my entire personality had changed and nobody close to me – not even Richard Kodadek – seemed to take notice.
Posted by Jacqueline on December 4, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/04/my-own-personal-timesup/
Posted by Jacqueline on December 3, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/03/what-i-wish-i-could-have-told-myself-at-25/
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