Tag: Emotional Wheel
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5.4.24 (Lightning Hornet Series)
I coach my son’s flag football team. I love football. My son loves football. My wife loves football. We are a football family. I never played football as a kid. I had an arm, but my parents loved baseball, so when I showed I could pitch, that was it. Now, prior to coaching a football game I get highly anxious – imposter syndrome. Parents and…
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5.1.24 (Lightning Hornet Series)
There has been something I’ve not handled well for a while now. It needs addressing. My wife is at a point in her life where she is perimenopausal. My son is in the throes of puberty, seventh grade hell. And I feel I cannot make either of them happy. There are days, there are times, where I feel nothing I do is right, nothing I do can help, there are days…
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4.19.24 (Lightning Hornet Series)
It’s been too long. A number of emotion-sparking events have happened, and I did not process them. I reverted to repressing them. Old habits die hard; I guess. But now things have reached a boiling point. If I don’t bleed it out onto the page, I will self-destruct. I don’t think I will like what comes out. I feel shame and guilt for feeling the way I do about this last week’s sequence of…
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2.3.24 (Lightning Hornet Series)
I did not wish to travel in a bad snowstorm to an optional social function; leaving my twelve-year-old son home alone for an evening. I had to ‘gear up’ to text my group of friends we were supposed to meet in order to prepare for the backlash I expected would come from canceling – even with just cause – due to the…