The connections between health, conflict avoidance and trauma

For most of my life I have been afraid of conflict. I didn’t really understand why and I thought it was part of my nature.I accepted it and didn’t seek to change it. Because of this fear, for a lengthy part of my life I lost…

What I learned after 60 consecutive days of running

Running as an experiment to reduce anxiety and facilitate healing

Looking back at 2018

To be honest, I am not sure how I want to write this. Maybe that is the point about 2018, a year when I discovered I am no…

On running, fitness and the narrative of sadness

I have been running consecutively for seven days now. There’s a whole lot of reasons why I am doing it — which I will probably document in an essay later — but mainly I got tired of feeling tired, and I got to a point when I was willing to try…

Breaking out of the stories we tell about ourselves

I’ve been running consecutively for 29 days now. I have been trying to run on-off for more than a decade, and this is the first time it has gotten some legs. My previous streak was just 4 days, so this feels like a quantum leap for me.