I hate to admit it, but there it is: Zoloft is making me fat. Additionally, it’s making me tired. I can easily sleep ten hours at night and take a two-hour nap during the day… and then do the same thing the next day, and the next day. Oh yes, and there is one other unpleasant [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Zoloft is making me fat
Posted in alternatives, anti-depressants, anxiety, crunchy, health on February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Running through anxiety attacks
Posted in anxiety, health, running on February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I experience a lot of spontaneous, out of the blue anxiety attacks. Other times my anxiety can easily be traced to certain events or happenings. Most unfortunately, running is one area of my life that can cause a lot of anxiety. Remember that I was running when I experienced my first anxiety attack? It hasn’t let up much [...]
All-time favorite soups
Posted in food, recipes on February 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Recipes for two of our favorite soups: Quick Avgolemono, Orzo and Chicken Soup and Curried Peanut-Squash Soup (which was last night’s dinner).
Let’s talk about sex, baby
Posted in alternatives, books, childbirth, crunchy, midwifery on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s as though they think they invented birth.” My midwife shook her head sadly as she spoke about the views of many obstetricians. I had just met her, but we had already bonded over a shared philosophy of natural childbirth. A midwife for over thirty years, she said that she had seen the pendulum swing both ways when [...]
Diagnosis: Anxiety
Posted in anxiety, health on February 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
January 2005: I was jogging on the treadmill at Family Fitness in Hyde Park, Florida. I was pushing myself to run harder and faster because I wanted to run a 5k that spring. At the same time, I was thinking about how I needed to start studying for the CPA exam. Both goals were daunting [...]
Commune Livin’
Posted in alternatives, books, childbirth, midwifery on February 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps as a testament to my budding crunchy granola side, the topic of communes has occasionally arisen in the course of conversation with friends. While I am quick to extol the virtues of this type of idealistic, collectivistic society, the truth is that I would not make a good commune dweller. My only interest in [...]
Being Perfect
Posted in books on February 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is another book that is a refreshing read for the Type-A personality. It’s also refreshingly short, at only 48 pages (half of which are pictures).
It’s about allowing there to be imperfections in your life. It’s about escaping the expectations of others and the expectations you have of yourself.
Look, every day, at the choices you [...]
Expecting Adam
Posted in books on February 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I could relate to author Martha Beck from the beginning. She was a driven, accomplished young woman with an altered view of reality. She had a hard time slowing down and seeing outside the fog of her own expectations.
She was a grad student at Harvard, and she was pregnant with her second child: a boy [...]
