HeyJaredBeneath the Willow Tree
Writing for people who feel deeply, think quietly, and sense there’s more beneath the surface.
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When Your Body Is Always Waiting for Something (opens the original)
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Good morning ,Hypervigilance is one of those words that can sound much more dramatic than it often looks.We hear it and imagine somebody constantly frightened, looking over their shoulder or unable to function because their body is permanently on high alert. Sometimes it can look like that. More often, in the conversations I have with people, it seems to have blended so thoroughly into ordinary life that they don’t recognise it as vigilance at all. They just think they’re someone who notices eve
The Things We Know Before We Can Explain Them (opens the original)
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Good morning ,A client said something to me recently that I’ve heard in different forms many times: “I knew something wasn’t right. I just couldn’t tell you why.” I’ve always been interested in that sentence because it sits in an awkward place between psychology and intuition. We like reasons for things. If we don’t trust someone, we want to know what they’ve done. If a situation makes us uncomfortable, we look for the thing that’s causing it. When we can’t find anything, we can end up questioni
Who Were You Before You Started Trying to Be Enough? (opens the original)
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Good morning ,I’ve been thinking about how strange it is that children rarely seem concerned with whether they’re enough. Watch a young child draw something and they’ll usually hand it to you with complete confidence. It might be three circles, an enormous purple head and six legs coming directly out of somebody’s neck, but they’re delighted with it. They don’t ask whether another child could’ve drawn it better. They don’t wonder whether drawing is really their thing or whether they should wait
The Grief Nobody Knows You’re Carrying (opens the original)
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Good morning , today I’m reflecting on the grief that no one sees us carry.I think we’ve made grief too closely associated with death.Mention grieving and most of us picture losing somebody, and understandably so. Bereavement can change the shape of a life in ways that are difficult to put into words. But I’ve heard people describe other losses with the same heaviness, followed almost immediately by an apology for feeling that way. They know somebody else has experienced something worse. Nobody
When Choosing Yourself Feels Selfish (opens the original)
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Something I hear surprisingly often is, “I know I need to say no, but I feel awful doing it.”The person usually understands the situation perfectly well. They know they’re tired, they know they’ve already taken on too much and they know that agreeing to one more thing will probably leave them frustrated with themselves afterwards. If somebody else descr… Read more
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