Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’
feel helpless, be a helper
If I Only Knew Then When I decided to take early retirement last October from my role as a high school counsellor/ teacher, I couldn’t have predicted the pandemic or its impact on the education system. Especially the untenable situation my longtime colleagues, friends and close family members who are educators, students and parents…
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As a young student, I quite enjoyed going to school. Despite my social awkwardness (and maybe because of it), I was able to achieve relative academic success especially in tasks that allowed me to work alone. I had never considered myself slow to process information but I do recall that the subject where my comprehension…
Read Moreforging a path
“Forging” is a word that has some serious heft to it. I think of firm-bodied men and women who come from hearty peasant stock. They clear the land of dense forest to set up shop in their newly tamed patch of land. And they bear litters of stocky children to help them claim and…
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