I’m so sorry to do another Substack Saturday about doctors appointments and hikes, but now that I’m a full time writer, when I’m not writing, this is how I spend my days. My new hobbies, if you will. Plus all the writing is making me dig deeper into my psyche and that causes my anxiety to manifest in physical form so I need to hike and see doctors. It’s like an Ouroboros - a snake eating its own tail. Because then I write about it.
On Tuesdays, I see my therapist. It was finally warm this past Tuesday, weather-wise and I was able to bust out my favorite thing in the entire world… jean shorts. My therapist said she liked my jean shorts when I dramatically walked in all bare-leggy and I delighted in her recognizing their greatness, because jean shorts feel like summer, feels like freedom. She asked me how I was feeling and I said, “I am a full spectrum rainbow of every emotion. From devastated all the way to ecstatic.”
“Good, she said. That means you’re alive, feeli…
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