I’ve been at a writer’s conference this weekend- which is why I haven’t done a blog! It’s a big conference in Portland, Oregon where I live.<\/p>\n
\u00a0I taught a class on writing self help books today. I always try to get perspective on where things are in my life. A few years ago, I remember walking around the conference and thinking- I want to teach here one day. I want to know the wonderful people who come here!<\/p>\n
\u00a0Two years later I was teaching. Things take time. The first I attended as a teacher I got quite overstimulated and paranoid.<\/p>\n
I’m much better this year. I go home early and make sure I get at least seven hours of sleep. I’m eating better. I try to stay calm when I feel myself getting too excited- and I remind myself that I will NOT listen to the thoughts that tell me others are better than I am and that I will always be on the outside of the ‘cool’ crowd.<\/p>\n
\u00a0I could be at the Oscars and my brain would say that I’m not in the ‘cool crowd!’\u00a0 This is not a bipolar thing- it’s a self confidence thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Depression took away my belief in myself for many, many years. I’m now consciously working on this. I want to be someone who can feel good when I accomplish something. It has been a struggle!<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been at a writer’s conference this weekend- which is why I haven’t done a blog! It’s a big conference in Portland, Oregon where I live.<\/p>\n
I taught a class on writing self help books today. I always try to get perspective on where things are in my life. A few years ago, I remember walking around the conference and thinking- I want to teach here one day. I want to know the wonderful people who come here!<\/p>\n
Two years later I was teaching. Things take time. The first I attended as a teacher I got quite overstimulated and paranoid.<\/p>\n
I’m much better this year. I go home early and make sure I get at least seven hours of sleep. I’m eating better. I try to stay calm when I feel myself getting too excited- and I remind myself that I will NOT listen to the thoughts that tell me others are better [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12232,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/12232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}