Try Harder: Anxiety and the Wonderful Messiness of Being Alive
“ And forget that nonsense about loving and embracing all of your flaws. You don’t have to love the things that impair and disrupt your life. You just have to see them as workable, and never just unique to you. Everybody’s fucked and has a brilliance in them. Let yourself be good and honest and committed to life and know that this is all you can do. Know that it’s enough. ” —Beth McColl, How to Come Alive Again: A Guide to Killing Your Monsters Lovely blog readers! Are you out there somewhere? Anybody?! Are you there, God? It’s her, Margaret! Are you there, anxiety? IT’S ME, JEFFREY! *Britney Spears voice* It’s been awhile. I’d love to say that the lack of new blog posts here has been because I’ve just been so delightfully busy in the last two months that I simply neglected this blog just because I had no time for it… but that’s not true. In the almost two months since my last post, let’s just say I could have been better. If I’m being honest, I’ve been in the bell jar (a.k.a.