Everyone has a window. If you’re within your window, you’re calm, focused, you can handle things, you’re your best self. Some people have nice wide windows. Some people are dealing with things, like depression, ADHD, or a myriad of other issues—though no fault of their own—which narrows their window. It’s easier to push them off balance. If you know where the boundaries of your window are, it’s helpful.

Diet, Fitness, Health, Loss, Mental Training, Running, resilianceMeredith LyonsAugust 19, 2022running, recovery, injury, lossComment

In which Dean has a seizure and I'm not there.

Dean has epilepsy. I’ve known this as long as I’ve known Dean.

Why being 'pretty good' at something is often the most difficult space.

When you’re rising in a new skill, I think the toughest place to be is often that intermediate area. That middle-of-the-climb spot where you’re no longer a novice, but not yet great. I feel that this spot is the most frustrating and yet often the spot where we give ourselves the least amount of grace.

Fighting, Mental Training, Motivation, resilianceMeredith LyonsJuly 29, 2022Resilience, mental training, MotivationComment

How long am I supposed to be patient?

Since the start of spring, I have been forced into patience. I have been forced to go slower, more mindfully, in every passion in my life. I will hope that it is not forever, but I will try to learn.

Fitness, Health, Loss, Mental Training, Motivation, resiliance, Running, WritingMeredith LyonsJuly 8, 2022coming back from injury, writing, healing, growthComment

Changing careers by the decade

I’ve never been happy with doing just one thing. And there’s a lot that I still want to try.

resilianceMeredith LyonsAugust 20, 2021Resilience, growth Comments

Worst Case Scenario

A reminder for my fellow disaster planners and myself. Be careful with your body and don’t borrow misery that’s not yours.

A Time of Transition

I’m reinventing myself yet again. Spring has always been a time of transition, and Beltane is a transition within the transition.

It's the Little Things

This one is fluff because I’ve had a hard week and that’s what I need. It’s about how I bought my cats a cat tree and they loved it. The end. Seriously. This is what I’m writing about this week.

Friends and Family, Pets, resiliance, RelationshipsMeredith LyonsApril 2, 2021Kittens, Resilience, family, PetsComment

Change, adaptation and growth

I believe there are three types of change, and the way we recognize how we respond to them can drastically affect our lives.

Loss, Mental Training, resiliance, Starting FreshMeredith LyonsFebruary 5, 2021Resilience, changeComment

Being a Creative in Covid

For all of those out there in the habit of beating themselves up because they just. can’t. create.

Friends and Family, Mental Training, Motivation, resilianceMeredith LyonsNovember 13, 2020Resilience, Relationships, freelancer, CreativityComment

Finding Hope

Tasked with finding hope in the midst of a days-long election and a pandemic breaking daily records, I do my best.

Motivation, resilianceMeredith LyonsNovember 6, 2020Resilience, MotivationComment

Hooray, Hooray, I'm your silver lining

This was potentially my most difficult entry to write yet. Everything right now is so fraught with tension and honestly, that’s boring to write about unless you have a new perspective on it or a way to relieve it. So I went a different way.

I like to take my own photos, but the one illustrating this entry of me and Dean was taken by our friend Edith. I have only resized it. No filters, no crops. It’s perfect as is.

Yes, death concerns me, but so do aspects of survival

I can be relatively young and very very healthy and still have plenty of valid reasons to avoid an airborne virus.

Fitness, resilianceMeredith LyonsOctober 23, 2020health, Self Awareness, COVID-19 Comments

What a woman should expect.

The two young women in the picture were just happy to dance with their friends. According to some, they should ‘expect’ to be harassed when they go out.

resiliance, RelationshipsMeredith LyonsOctober 16, 2020feminism, RelationshipsComment

Heading into a spiral. Anyone want anything?

This isn’t a cheerful one this week. I always try to interject some cheer or at least an uplift to what I write, but this is for the people who may be feeling like I do and just need to read their feelings in someone else’s words and feel less alone for a few seconds. I will not give up.