Hi everyone,
Welcome to Notes from Real Time! My intention is for NFRT to feel like a catch-up note from a friend: a summary of life lately, what I’m thinking about, probably a weird thing I said or did, and recommendations for books, articles, TV, podcasts, recipes, therapists, etc.
I genuinely love working on the long essays I’ve been writing the last few months, but I’ve been putting pressure on myself to publish one at least every other week, and I’m learning that sometimes, this just isn’t possible due to my workload and also my life because writing essays takes me a very long time. So, NFRT is a between-essays feature.
I’ve done a lot of learning around the shocking, novel concept of not hurting myself in order to get work done anymore, and I’m committed to this even though my nervous system still often believes the lie of DANGER! YOU WILL NOT BE SAFE UNLESS YOU ARE SO PRODUCTIVE YOUR EYEBALLS BLEED!
So. Preaching, meet practicing.