Laurie Guerrettaz – Thanks for sharing the music videos. Great stuff!
Miranda Mattas – Hi Laurie,
Thank you for sharing! I appreciate your vulnerability. One thing that has helped me a LOT with my reading goals is to read many at once. I used to be adamant I could not pick up a new one until the old one was done. But then what do you do with a heavy book like Demon Copperhead, when you’re going through a heavy time? And just. Can’t.? So at any one time in using reading a memoir or biography of sorts, a non fiction title, maybe a heftier fiction novel and then a pure escapism book. Right now that means I’m reading I, Rigoberta Menchú, The New Perimenopause by Dr. Mary Claire Haver (it’s saving my life turns out that anxiety and brain fog creeping up on me? Perimenopause!), The Handmaids Tale, and my pure escapism is the Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Volume 2. Do I tend to make it through the pure escapism books a heck of a lot faster? Yes! I may read 5 of those in the time it takes me to read the weightier fiction or 20 in the time it takes me to get through a whole non fiction title. Demon Copperhead took me a WHILE. I adore Barbara Kingsolver but whew that’s a tough one. Not recommended for anyone struggling with their mental health. So it took me a long time. Anyway what I’m saying is… go at your own pace. Who are we comparing ourselves to? When I realized no one cares if I don’t finish one it freed me up to read trash or YA or easy reads when I wanted to and the heavier stuff when I could. And it’s ok if it takes me a year (or sometimes more) to get though one of the tougher ones. I hope you can keep using your tools (yay therapy! And Brene is the best!) and adopt the “no one is looking I can go at my own pace and find what works for me attitude” in all aspects. I might just try your trick for getting myself more motivated to do that which I know I should do! Thank you again- Miranda
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