by Melissa Glaze | Jul 25, 2022 | life
A lot of different frameworks in the self help and therapy world ask us to identify an inner critic or bully. When we are trying to change how we think about things, it can help to realized that many messages we have internalized are not helping us. But I...
by Melissa Glaze | Jul 15, 2022 | life
There are so many catchphrases in the realm of self help and mental health that, although true, are presented in such simplistic, crudely reductionist ways as to be unhelpful if not actually harmful. The snippets we consume and share on many social media...
by Melissa Glaze | Jun 14, 2022 | death, life
A thing that most of us have heard is that immortality is achieved by being remembered. Let our deeds reverberate through the ages, for it is in glory that we achieve eternal life. Ideally we would all be Vikings/Klingon warriors/Nobel prize winners. This...
by Melissa Glaze | Jun 6, 2022 | death, life
Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. We’ve all heard this repeated somewhere or other. René Descartes made this statement in Discourse on the Method, published in 1637. He was concerned with the observation that he had held many beliefs which were later...
by Melissa Glaze | May 31, 2022 | life
Sometimes toxic positivity sneaks up on us. My opinion is that the whole “you’ll know what to do when it feels right” is a sneaky version of “stay positive.” Sometimes the right thing to do doesn’t feel right. Sometimes it feels horrible. Maybe because we’re in the...
by Melissa Glaze | May 18, 2022 | life
There will always be another metaphor, another parable, another facile couplet, about the meaning of suffering. We are a species that loves finding patterns so much that there is a name for the phenomenon of finding faces in abstract patterns. (It’s...
by Melissa Glaze | May 12, 2022 | life
This is a practice what you preach blog entry. An accountability blog entry. A go drink some water blog entry. An “I am a disciple of the Nap Ministry who ya’ll might want to follow” blog entry. Things I know about myself: my energy is variable. I will get...
by Melissa Glaze | May 4, 2022 | death, life
Let’s talk about disenfranchised grief. This term was defined in 1989 by Kenneth Doka to describe the grief that goes unacknowledged by one’s community. Some examples might include pregnancy loss, the death of a pet, the milestone anniversary of a relationship that...
by Melissa Glaze | Mar 2, 2022 | life
Welcome, everyone. Just a quick intro for my inaugural blog post. My name is Melissa, my pronouns are she/her/hers, I’m a single mom of one teenager, and a former attorney. I studied both religion and biology in undergrad, then went straight to law...
