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A Forced Stop
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash I thought I could push through. Friday morning, I woke up feeling off. My skin felt too warm, I had...
Marichit Garcia
Mar 174 min read


Living in a Sinkhole Household
Photo by Maxim Tolchinskiy on Unsplash The term "sinkhole household" perfectly captures the feeling. It’s not a regular house or a home....
Marichit Garcia
Mar 113 min read


From Barely Surviving the Weekend to a Monday That Almost Broke Me Again
I barely made it through the weekend, but I did. It wasn’t perfect, but there were moments. I had a moment at the therapist's when I...
Marichit Garcia
Mar 102 min read


The Slow Return: Navigating the Push and Pull of Daily Life
Photo by Angel Luciano on Unsplash There’s a kind of heaviness that sits with you when you return from a trip. It’s more than the weight...
Marichit Garcia
Feb 272 min read


A Little Bit of Magic
There’s something deeply human about the need to impose order on chaos. When life begins to fray at the edges—when work becomes a knot of...
Marichit Garcia
Feb 112 min read


The Rollercoaster of Leadership
Photo by Brooke Lark, Unsplash In my dayjob I am a team leader. In the past three years I have gone from being a one-woman team into a...
Marichit Garcia
Jan 243 min read


The Old Year in New Year's Clothing
A favorite snapshot from last month's trip to South Korea. I should have restarted work today, but I didn't. I couldn't. My brain was...
Marichit Garcia
Jan 22 min read


One of Those Days When I Wonder What's the Point
This barely alive website, for instance. This blog. This writing into the void. The art shop that never got around to fully opening. The...
Marichit Garcia
Nov 16, 20241 min read


Daily Thirty, #00013
Might be coming down with something. The cough started a couple of days ago, and it felt different from the usual allergic cough I get...
Marichit Garcia
Oct 23, 20242 min read


Saturday Afternoon
When did you start having real conflict with your mother? I have always had difficulty reconciling many of her beliefs, behaviors, words,...

Marichit Garcia
Oct 19, 20242 min read


Friday Night
I dread the weekend a little. For one thing, I have a little bit of work to do. It's not required, and there is no hard deadline (yet),...
Marichit Garcia
Oct 19, 20241 min read


Daily Thirty, #00011, Taking Time
The past two weeks my #anxiety and #depression have significantly dropped. And while the #ADHD symptoms remain, I am better able to...

Marichit Garcia
Sep 15, 20242 min read


Daily Thirty, #00010, Light at the End of a Tunnel
Two weeks back at work. I am on a kind of good streak mentally, it seems. The depression and anxiety are in the low levels, which gives...
Marichit Garcia
Sep 14, 20242 min read


Daily Thirty, #00007
Daily Thirty is 30 minutes every day of giving myself space just to sit down and write anything. It's for calming, therapy, grounding....
Marichit Garcia
Aug 30, 20242 min read


Daily Thirty, #00006
Daily Thirty is 30 minutes every day of giving myself space just to sit down and write anything. It's for calming, therapy, grounding....
Marichit Garcia
Aug 29, 20243 min read


Daily Thirty, #00005
Daily Thirty is 30 minutes everyday of giving myself space to just sit down and write anything. It's for calming, therapy, grounding. I...
Marichit Garcia
Apr 29, 20242 min read


Daily Thirty, #00004
Daily Thirty is 30 minutes everyday of giving myself space to just sit down and write anything. It's for calming, therapy, grounding. I...

Marichit Garcia
Apr 27, 20242 min read


Daily Thirty, #00003
Daily Thirty is 30 minutes everyday of giving myself space to just sit down and write anything. It's for calming, therapy, grounding....
Marichit Garcia
Apr 19, 20242 min read


Daily Thirty, #00002
Not exactly daily, is it? But I try. Until it really happens. So here goes. I had two odd days this week. One was Tuesday when I was...
Marichit Garcia
Apr 18, 20243 min read


Troubled Brain Throws a Tantrum
So I've been thinking how almost everyone in my extro-FB (the FB account where I am my more acceptable self versus my intro-FB where I am...
Marichit Garcia
Apr 9, 20243 min read