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What a difference

After a year, I’m back to work and back to living.

anxiety, career, depression, future, mental health, recovery

A big week

A series of fortunate events.

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Correspondence

Recovery from depression has changed how I relate to people.

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Acculturation

Organizational culture—specifically the Competing Values Framework—informs how I process what I’m learning about myself in therapy.

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Processing

Data, data, data.

anxiety, career, depression, jerk brain, mental health, perspective, psychology, recovery, reflections, self image, therapy

Living out loud

My story matters because it means there is hope.

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The ways in which

How.

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SFD

A first draft isn’t supposed to be pretty.

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This train still runs

It’s been a difficult year so far, but I have persevered and gotten stronger.

anxiety, career, change, depression, fear, future, jerk brain, lessons learned, mental health, OCD, perspective, PTSD, recovery, reflections, reframe, role model, self image, self-care, wisdom

Where it’s at

I have a microphone, but what do I have to say?

anxiety, career, depression, job, leadership, mental health, OCD, PTSD, recovery

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