Tips for Beating Burnout Stress is a reality of life, whereas excessive and non-stop stress may take us to the incapacitating emotional condition we know as burnout. Three signs distinguish burnout: fatigue; depersonalization, absence from work; and lack of efficacy, or sentiments of incompetence. Too much work and deadline anxieties are expected in a job. Everyone could at…
Fear of Change and Leaving Your Comfort Zone to Move to a New Country I was born in the US and grew up in Mexico City, where I lived until thirty-three. I had given thought to the possibility of living in another country; however, I discarded this and was “certain” that I would stay in Mexico for the rest…
Looking outside for what’s inside: a dangerous habit We often consider traveling great roads in search of what we want, desires, or needs through which we think our happiness passes. So we immersed ourselves with great enthusiasm in the investigation. Thus, we move forward with the hope of finding the solution to what happens to us. But we do not…
Languor: The Dominant Emotion of 2021 That discomfort you feel is called languor and it is the dominant emotion of 2020 and 2021. It is described as a feeling of stagnation and emptiness. Symptoms of languor include: mental exhaustion, lack of motivation, and numbness. Many of us have been feeling trapped, in a kind of limbo. Life seems to us…
My own, Private Sundance I just had my very first film festival online. I’d been binge watching random films on the internet, like most people since the first lockdown. But surprisingly, I received an invitation to the world’s most important indie film festival in the world. Under normal conditions, I would have taken the opportunity to take my skiing pants…
COVID-19 Blues: Focus on What You Can Control I PANICKED the other day. Just like that, I cracked like an egg. Yet, I couldn’t seem to stop. I was glued to my phone. To the news. To contradictory articles. To the voices of others. It felt like mass panic. As a result, I spent half of the day anxious…
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