All posts tagged: Mental Health

Rage Cleaning

October 14, 2021
by birch & raven
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General Musings / Mental Health / Uncategorized

I rage cleaned today. Well, ok, it started as rage cleaning and relaxed slightly into stress cleaning. I have been feeling overwhelmed this week by All The Things I have going on in my life right now: homeschooling two little ones, co-parenting them and two teenagers, my job, renovating a house, caring for animals…oh, and a global pandemic. This week I have been walking through the house doing things and it seems like every place […]

The Social Media Dilemma

October 13, 2021
by birch & raven
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Bad Habits / General Musings / In the Media / Mental Health / Nothing But 'Net / Pet Peeves

During my vacation over the last couple of weeks, I took social media off my phone. I’ve been having an increasingly unhealthy relationship with it, scrolling mindlessly for hours, compulsively checking it, and yet rarely posting or engaging. Just scrolling. Over and over and over. I needed a break. A colleague posted about a month ago that she was finally done. The news that an in-house study had found that Instagram was damaging to the […]