by dmackinnon | Oct 27, 2021 | Healing Choices, Mindset, Process
On February 16, 2021, I decided to try do one scary (exciting!) thing a day. Not a scary-yucky thing, but something I’d really like to do if I had enough courage or if I suddenly couldn’t feel fear. I decided to pretend I had enough courage and think about what I...
by dmackinnon | Nov 1, 2019 | Healing Choices, Mindset
I grew up believing I should never make a mistake. That there was something wrong with me when I did make a mistake, as of course I did, all the time! The result of my belief was that I felt terrible every time I made a mistake. Which means, I felt terrible all the...
by dmackinnon | Apr 24, 2019 | Healing Choices, Mindset
I think I’ve finally learned that when I screw up, it doesn’t mean “quit,” or “I can’t do it,” it just means, “try again.” When I go to my Toastmasters meetings, I usually volunteer for Table Topics. That means you volunteer to speak, get up in front of...
by dmackinnon | Feb 28, 2019 | Healing Choices, Mindset
Once we’ve established a boundary, (see Boundaries, Part 1,) how do we honor it? For some people, this is not difficult, but for many of us, it is very hard to do in the moment. For example, if you are raising children and working, you may have decided to set a...
by dmackinnon | Jan 7, 2019 | Healing Choices, Mindset
On Christmas Day my husband and I hosted 18 people for dinner. Dinner was scheduled for 2 PM. At just after noon, when the potatoes were boiling on the stove and I was just starting to cook the green beans and carrots, my husband and I checked the two turkeys we’d...
by dmackinnon | Aug 20, 2017 | Healing Choices, Mindset
I almost bailed on the Intro to Standup class I took this summer. (I wrote about it here.) Some of the people in my class had been doing standup for years; others had only tried it a few times. I’m pretty sure I was the only one who’d never done it before. Or maybe I...
