one Monday at a time

Hello all, Welcome back to one Monday at a time! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. The holidays can be a stressful time of year for many, so I feel very lucky that my family is as close as we are. It might be a bit cliché to write about gratitude after Thanksgiving, after all, that is  the point of the holiday. However, I think I've been challenged in the past couple weeks with the concept of gratitude, and I've struggled to remain appreciative for things in my everyday life. It has helped to be cognizant of when I start to drift off into negative wishful thinking, and instead, make a conscious effort to stay in the present.  Counting my blessings is hard though, I tend to get repetitive, always starting with friends and family and expanding to the several items I can see around my room. From there, I start to think about concepts and feelings, like comfort or safety. In this way, it has felt more redundant than revitalizing to count my blessings, and almost a bit dull...

Hello all! Welcome back to one Monday at a time. I took last week off, since we didn't have classes, but this Monday, I am back in the swing of things. The past two weeks have been very eventful in my life. As of writing this, I have 25 days left of my URI undergrad experience. That seems wild to say, but here it is, a whole 5 and 1/2 months early. I feel that my brain is dragging though, maybe this is what they call "senioritis", or a complete and utter unwillingness to do anything that has to do with school. I'm being productive in my everyday life, going to the gym, cooking, and even decorating for Christmas a bit early! I just have an extreme aversion to homework right now, and I'm trying to stay focused, but it's so hard when I'm soooo close to the end. It's like I'm carrying barrels of water up a mountain, and I can see the peak, and so I start to move faster, and care a little less about the water I'm holding, and soon enough I'm spi...

Hello all, I feel like this week has gone on so long, but passed by so quick at the same time. Senioritis is starting to creep in, and I feel like I've done nothing, even though all I've done is work. I've been getting back into the gym, which has been difficult for me to carve out time to do, but the release of endorphins has made me a lot more productive and way less stressed. I was thinking about what I would write about this week, and I was going to write about anxiety, but I feel like writing a post about anxiety immediately  after writing about mindfulness wouldn't be a good look for my therapist. So, instead of that, I've decided to talk about Transition. Google defines Transition as the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another, but I feel like it's a bit more than that. Sometimes your condition stays the same, but as humans, we find ways to surmount these obstacles all the time. We are constantly in a state of transition, ev...