“The hardest clutter to recognize is the emotional kind that looks like care. The worry that feels responsible. The constant mental scanning of other people’s moods. The “just checking in” texts that come from anxiety, not connection. We tell ourselves these are signs of empathy, but they’re often signs of overextension.” Ayushi Thakkar
Author Archives: Gabriela Yareliz
Excellent Advice for Living
By: Gabriela Yareliz Today, I am linking to some sage advice. I have had this tab open on my phone for probably at least a year. I always come back to it. Check out the Excellent Advice for Living here! The one that always rings through my head is: “Don’t fear failure. Fear average.”
A Great Prayer
“Giving is a great prayer.” Elena Brower, “Tenses: six,” Softening Time By: Gabriela Yareliz My husband and I live in a pre-war apartment, which means we have a hot pipe that runs through the bathroom that now glows with heat. I walked past it this morning, and felt the warmth radiating from below the chippedContinue reading “A Great Prayer”
Figuring it Out
“And you do have more agency than you think. You can try anything, make your own rules, make unconventional decisions that might initially only make sense to you. If you’ve never learned to really listen to yourself and figure out what it is you actually want out of life, you can start now.” Erifili Gounari What doContinue reading “Figuring it Out”
The Struggle with AI
So true. With the mass layoffs this week and last— AI is top of mind. How will the world keep changing? On a day like today where I am dragging myself after hopping onto like 17 trains to get home, can AI clean the bathroom and do laundry? Ugh. It won’t.
A Train (Love) Story
By: Gabriela Yareliz I saw the most precious duo on the train (I know— that is a rare statement). Usually, the trains feel like they emerge from hell (D train, I am looking at you)— but here we are. A different morning. Maybe, I was looking for something different, and that helped me find it.Continue reading “A Train (Love) Story”
A Call to Prayer
By: Gabriela Yareliz At first, I had prepared this as a piece to a post I was going to have go live earlier, but this merits its own post and many more. We encourage all who read to join the global body of Christ in prayer for Kevin Rideout, U.S. missionary abducted last week inContinue reading “A Call to Prayer”
This Week’s Pinterest Mood Board
Commitments
“Our biggest commitments, the things we are most dedicated to, rarely pay us back in equal measure. That might be the point.” Seth Godin
Before Goop There Was My Mom
By: Gabriela Yareliz Before I was obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow, and before I found the article on Goop that changed my life— there was my mom, my original health influencer. In every house we had, my mom created a garden (not just flowers but food). She has always been a nature person. I think sheContinue reading “Before Goop There Was My Mom”
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