Ideosyncratic coping strategies
Determined to recover my writing routine, I enrolled in Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen Essay intensive in early September. For the next two weeks, I arrived home from work, had dinner and set to write following Ariel’s prompts. This exercise resulted in drafts, for 4- 1000 words essays, and a long, 4200 words piece.
With a roof over my head, with an income, and a healthy family, there is no tragedy. There is a tragedy in Syria and in Venezuela. Get real.
If everything fails, call the doctor, or the suicide hotline. And repeat the following:
“I am still in control. I can do this.”
In the last years, I have turned to yoga both as a low impact exercise and a spiritual practice in an effort to counteract the side effects of medication and find inner peace.