by David Hayward | Dec 5, 2014 | David's Letters, I'm confused, I'm sad, I'm scared
I’ve been thinking a lot about the pain of transformation. Like growing pains. I sprouted up very fast as a teenager. It actually physically hurt. Especially in my legs. They say that the greatest stressors in life are things like illness, death of a loved one,...
by David Hayward | Sep 7, 2014 | David's Letters, I'm confused
I have difficulty with these two extremes: 1. wallowing in misery 2. floating in fantasy That is… we can get stuck in our own suffering and even become attached to it. The world becomes a very dark and nasty place, and we become its helpless victims from which there...
by Amy | Feb 3, 2014 | Feelings
I said I was going to do this yesterday, but I actually didn’t have time. I wasn’t feeling great and there was just too much else happening. So I’m posting it today. I mentioned on the Facebook group that I was taking a week to try to figure out...
by David Hayward | Jan 19, 2014 | David's Letters, I'm confused
I’ve been thinking about pain… most recently this morning when I ran 6K in the cold snow and ice. I wanted to share with you guys why I think pain is sometimes a good thing. Now, to be clear, pain is sometimes a signal that something is being violated....
by David Hayward | Nov 5, 2013 | Feelings
I hate taking off band-aids. It hurts. I used to take them off really slowly, making every effort to make sure the pain was kept to a minimum. I would take as long as a minute to take it off, longer if there was hair involved. It still hurt, but spread out like butter...
