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stress

Losing count

2025 March 16th2020 May 16th

Damnit!  I  binged
again  II day
IV  life was hard
and so  I
VIII  my stress away.
O why do  I  so  of X  gorge?
Since turning  XL
I’ve been extra large.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, eating, favorites, food, forties, ha ha, health, math & numbers, midlife, perimenopause, poems, popular, silly, stress, terri guillemets, wordplay

Anew

2025 March 11th2006 October 11th

Our bodies let go when it’s time to let go — it’s called death. We ought to let go of the little burdensome things each day — that’s called living.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, death, emotions, favorites, healing, letting go, life, mind, popular, quotes, self, stress, terri guillemets, wellness

Ever finding

2025 March 16th2005 October 19th

Always remember lost, so that you don’t take for granted found.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, gratitude, infj, memories, mind, perspective, popular, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

$ick

2025 April 19th2023 January 19th

in this day and age
dealing with health insurance
worst disease of all

Terri Guillemets

“All complaints about life today will be ignored unless they are submitted in the format of elegant haiku poetry.” —Dr. SunWolf

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, enshittification, health, medical, poems, q&a, senryu, society, stress, terri guillemets

Liftoff

2025 September 17th2023 July 13th

believing my wings were fragile and fractured
in my formidable forties, i abandoned flying—
approaching fifty, i know my wings are strong
they just cannot lift so many heavy anxieties—

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, emotions, fifties, forties, midlife, perimenopause, poems, stress, terri guillemets, transformation, wings

Sugar shock

2025 March 16th2023 March 26th

my willpower has become
a fraction of what it was—
my sweet tooth is now
much greater than my resolve—
and the laboratory reports
that my blood glucose
no longer measures in
milligrams per deciliter—
but in sugar cubes squared

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, eating, favorites, food, ha ha, math & numbers, medical, perimenopause, poems, stress, sweets, terri guillemets, wordplay

Stop to smell the goodness

2025 March 16th2005 February 26th

Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, blessings, favorites, flowers, gratitude, life, note to self, popular, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

Mind own secrets

2025 March 16th2007 March 26th

Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, emotions, favorites, health, hsp, infj, letting go, mind, perspective, popular, quotes, self, stress, terri guillemets

Don’t just sit there

2025 March 16th2005 December 10th

If life is good, don’t just sit there — dance!
If life’s not so good — dance even more.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, body, dancing, emotions, exercise & fitness, favorites, happiness, life, popular, quotes, spirit, stress, terri guillemets

Refuge

2025 March 16th2016 October 3rd

Tea time — a brief recess from dodging life’s blowdarts.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, calmness, quotes, stress, tea, terri guillemets

Saving y’all some time

2025 March 16th2019 May 8th

After reading countless health books over the past couple of decades, I can tell you it pretty much all boils down to this:  Eat plenty of veggies, work, play, rest, and don’t worry.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, balance, body, eating, food, health, life, medical, mind, nutrition, perspective, play, quotes, simplicity, stress, success, terri guillemets, wellness

Entranced

2025 March 16th2023 August 1st

autumn leaves rustle
the tension out of me
on pleasant breezy days
sunlit gentle tree, i am
a ragdoll under your sway

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, body, emotions, leaves, nature, outdoors, poems, seasons, stress, sun, terri guillemets, trees, wind & breeze

Tough as concrete

2025 March 16th2009 May 2nd

Each negative experience hardens us a little more to life. Some of us are tough as concrete. But try to leave yourself a few cracks, so that love and flowers can grow through.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, quotes, stress, terri guillemets
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