Laura Wiens
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This thanksgiving feels more important than ever.
This year, i’m having trouble being thankful and I feel bad even saying that. Thanksgiving is a time to look back on the last 12 months and express gratitude towards the people you’ve loved, the places you’ve gone, the experiences you’ve had and the life you lived. I’m gonna be honest, this year was a crap fest for me and I have been doing more surviving that actual living. I’ve been in my lowest emotional state of the last 5 years, i’ve been forced into a work closure not one, not two, but THREE times. There have been cancelled vacations and honestly it feels like everytime I have something to look forward to, it gets taken away so i’ve just stopped getting excited. As Spencer Hastings once said, “that’s the thing about hope, it breeds eternal misery.”
By Laura Wiens4 years ago in Motivation
Poetry.
Passion is an interesting concept. It can be interpreted and portrayed in so many different ways, and that’s what makes it beautiful and special. It’s taken me a long time to realize what my passion was and the best phrase that describes my passion is human connection. I’ve explored aspects of human connection in a few different professional capacities, and over the years, I’ve learnt that my greatest trait is relation to my passion is my empathy. That being said, realizing the capacity of my empathy also has made me realize that professions such as Social Work and Psychology would burn me out quickly and eventually dim my passion. I choose to portray my passion for connection in the form of poetry. In a perfect world, I would be a published poet, with my work reaching the hearts and changing the lives of people who are struggling with the same emotions.
By Laura Wiens5 years ago in Poets
Fortitude.
It's something that everyone is sick of talking about, but in the same breath, it's all anybody knows how to talk about anymore. Small talk that used to consist of medial topics like the weather or phrases like "what did you do this weekend?" have now been replaced with chats about the latest daily infection numbers and vaccine percentages. In fact, I went for lunch with an old friend a couple of months ago, and as an experiment, I tried to go through the whole lunch without mentioning COVID and I found it incredibly difficult. To some people, it is comforting to talk it to death, almost like it gives a sense of control to know exactly what the current evolving situation is. I'll be the first to admit, I have been that person. There are weeks where I get incredibly anxious if I don't know the exact state of my province, only for me it stems from paranoia. Luckily i’m currently working again but i've been off three times since the pandemic began. I'm not sure which has been harder, not working at all or going to work knowing that each day could be my last. It’s a horrible way of thinking, I know, but for someone who’s only worked a handful of the last months, it is a real fear.
By Laura Wiens5 years ago in Motivation
you are worth more than a waistline
I've been thinking a lot lately about body image and what it means to have a positive outlook. There's the media, who tell you that skinny is beautiful, and that having smooth, firm skin, a juicy ass and a flat stomach is the way you need to look to be considered good looking. THAT IS SO BACKWARDS, FRIENDS. The last time that I can recall having a flat stomach was when everything else on my body was also flat when I was about 12 years old.
By Laura Wiens5 years ago in Poets
