Tag: recovery
-
Week 15: Building My Own Runway
This week was a strange mix of frustration, momentum, loneliness, and progress — sometimes all within the same hour. On the health front, I had my follow-up with my cancer doctor. Overall, things are moving in the right direction, but we decided to add a topical treatment to hopefully speed things up. Unfortunately, the timing…
-
Week 14: Momentum, Resistance, and Showing Up Anyway
This week felt like a perfect snapshot of what rebuilding looks like — not dramatic highs and lows, but a lot of showing up. On the fitness front, I’m officially down 10 pounds. The scale hasn’t moved much past that this week, which is frustrating, but I’ve also increased weights at the gym and kept…
-
Weekly Update: Shipping Momentum, Hard Conversations, and Showing Up Anyway
This past week felt like one of those stretches where everything seems to happen at once — progress, setbacks, stress, excitement — sometimes all within the same day. Big Wins (And They Really Are Big) The biggest milestone of the week is that Did I Do That? is officially submitted to the Apple App Store…
-
Week 7: In Between What Was and What’s Next — and Shipping Something Real
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This week didn’t come with a clean sense of momentum or a big emotional breakthrough. Instead, it lived in the middle — between what my life used to look like and what it’s slowly becoming. Some days felt heavy and unmoored. Others…
-
Week 1: Relief, Reality, and the First Steps Toward Stability
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. (Wednesday before Thanksgiving → Black Friday) This was my first full week of being unemployed — a sentence that still feels a little strange to write. The week started with shock, surged into relief, dipped into sadness, and eventually settled into a…