knowing how to be, when ill is also a skill
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty well, I developed some pain after a few hours had passed. I asked the…
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2025: may I have an uneventful year
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to progress uneventfully. I first started using the word “uneventful”…
the ability to see our selves as who we are
My tcm (traditional chinese medicine) appointment a couple of weeks ago was postponed because my physician was sick. I thought it would be fine to go a couple of weeks without, but…
one year of strength training
Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had only 3 sessions with them, but due to a fundamental incompatibility – they had…
Endure
my multi-decade journey with migraines
Writing some of my recent posts made me reflect on how far I’ve come with regards to my chronic migraines so far, so I thought it’ll be fun (to nobody except myself)…
sharing my protocol as a moderately covid cautious person
There may be a misconception that all covid cautious people are the same, but it is pretty wide spectrum. Some covid cautious people may frown upon my behaviour because I still travel…
what we pay for wanting to be healthy
We are in Gyeongju now, a place full of cute hanoks and rolling green hills that are actually tombs which are thousands of years old. The weather has been rather unpredictable: searing…
the beach
I’ve had an affinity with the beach since I was young. Every time I had the opportunity to take a vacation, it would almost always be the beach. My younger self would…
my experience on starting exercise from zero
I don’t know if people know this, but I used to be extremely sedentary and I hated any form of physical activity. Only upon hindsight I realised it was probably related to…