Grief is Weird
It has been a few months since my grandmother passed away and I am still experiencing serious grief. I keep thinking about the quote from Wandavision (how silly is it that I’m quoting a Marvel TV show in a very personal writing): “But What Is Grief If Not Love Persevering?” Wandavision In these months of […]
Failing Out Loud and… Proud?
It’s not new to hear me talk about the parts of myself that I am learning to embrace through my Human Design. I have talked extensively about what it means to be a manifestor and how this has changed my approach to work, life, and coping with my chronic illness. But another aspect of my […]
Good Beginnings and Happy Endings… and an Okay Middle?
Over the past few weeks, I have been catching up on the AppleTV+ show Schmigadoon. As a musical lover, I enjoyed the first season, and the second season comes in with a similar concept, parodying musicals from the 70s and 80s such as Chicago, Sweeney Todd, and Jesus Christ Superstar. If you’re into musicals, I […]
Who Gets our Empathy?
Publicly sharing about your health can be challenging. There are a host of issues and problems that can come with it. In the past week, I witnessed what I considered a lack of empathy for someone being truthful and an excess of empathy for someone who was lying. It started me thinking about who we […]
Creation Fixation
When I first started The Mddl and created its content, it consumed me. I ate, drank, and breathed it. But now, I don’t want to do that anymore. I still love The Mddl and all that it has done and become for me. It has shifted for me. I look at it like my job […]
Threads: Joyful, Chaotic Community Building in Action
I want to write about what is on my mind – and today that is Instagram’s new app Threads. I am an early adopter of technology. Last night Instagram (well Meta) released Threads, a social media app to fill the void that Twitter’s awful new policies are creating. Basically it takes your Instagram, you import […]
Notion
I use Notion to organize pretty much everything in my life – I am a huge fan and I think you should be too.
Ending of a Comfortable Middle
At the beginning of The Mddl, I skirted around talking about my symptoms and potential diagnoses. I never wanted to have to go back and have to say, “just kidding, I’m fine and this was all me being dramatic.” I was going to doctors weekly, new diagnoses thrown out as possibilities, only to be eliminated […]
Beis Weekender Bag
I LOVE this bag. The fact that it has a separate area on the bottom for shoes and can stay wide open while looking in it are game changers.
The Struggle between Consistency and Self-Acceptance
There are two truths that I am currently struggling with. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but in the way that I see them, they are. The Mddl is all about figuring out how to hold more truths at once, finding the grey area, and getting cozy there. So here we are, friend, with the […]