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Frustration

Let's start by being completely honest and transparent. We all get frustrated. Me? I work through frustration by writing, listening to music, breathing and learning how to address the here and the now. Just like now! Frustration arises when something blocks you from reaching a goal you expected to achieve. It’s a mismatch signal: your brain detected a gap between what you anticipated and what actually happened, and it’s pushing you to do something about it. That simple mechan

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Frustration

Just look...

Today is Mother's day and this year I decided to change my thoughts and many things about me that I have been working on for a few years now. I would like to share my perspective on this change with you all. When you decide to observe without any judgment, what many don't understand is that your brain shifts from a reactive state to a receptive, curious state, activating the ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens (reward circuitry) while suppressing the amygdala's auto

Quietness

When I walk into my home, it has always amazed me how my mind is disciplined to be quiet. Then I breathe, and I start being thankful for everything, when I mean everything - that means even for the messes that there could be lying around. That's when I give my eyes the time to blink and observe what many times in the midst of silence and quietness can be captured. Many times, so many things tend to drift by and are missed and not observed because there is so much noise aroun

REAL TALK

LET ME KNOW WHAT DO YOU THINK... Time… Time is so precious, and many of us don’t realize how we spend it. I’ve had a lot happen since my last intubation in 2025. That was intubation number 19 (I think it might be more), and it’s taken me some time to get situated and back on track. I’ll be honest—I’m still not where I was, but I work every day to get back to the comfortable, routine life that I love. What I’ve noticed is that we all live on social media, and we’ve slowly lost