My experience has been that ice baths are way better than cold showers. I find the cold showers a miserable, wretched experience suitable only for when I'm traveling.

By contrast. Ice baths are a meditative experience for me.

https://www.morozkoforge.com/post/cold-therapy

Every organizational leader must concern themselves with the decisions made at all levels of their organization. Even the lowest paid employees, at the bottom of the organizational hierarchy, are making decisions that help shape the future of the organization.

And because every decision is an irreversible commitment of resources, the people who make those decisions are choosing some alternatives at the expense of others. When cashiers choose to smile, they give up frowns. When forklift drivers choose precision, they give up speed. When carpenters choose screws, they are not choosing nails.

Every decision is a choice between two or more…

Muscle receovery is the least important reason to practice deliberate cold exposure. In fact, you'll get more out of your workout if you use exercise to recover from the ice, rather than the other way around.

Everyone who has spent more than two days in a job has discovered that the description of and practice of their job are often two different things.

For example, in my job as a University professor, you might think my job is teaching, mentoring, and research. In fact, much of my job is filling out forms. Some days, several hours of my work day will be spent completing some damn form, and I hate it.

But what’s really awful is that the forms themselves are incomplete, obsolete, or sometimes, just ignored. At Arizona State University, we have forms that haven’t…

I didn’t know I married an alcoholic.

There’s no history of alcoholism in my family. My parents barely drank at all, and neither did I until I was well past the legal drinking age of 21 years old.

So I didn’t have the experience I needed to recognize the warnings, and by the time it should have been obvious, I was so deeply invested in my denial that I didn’t want to know.

My daughter changed all that, when she was 14 years old.

I was grocery shopping with her and my son (16 at the time) and she said…

"But" is a magical word that erases everything in the sentence that comes before it.

I wrote this article for times like you're having now.

https://medium.com/storygarden/emotional-flashback-80ea69ce3bae

When my Father died two weeks ago, I discovered that I'm still afraid of my sisters. I'm afriad they'll gossip about me to the rest of the family, convince my other relatives that I'm a terrible person and that I will be cast out for life (because I do not do what my sisters tell me to do).

Nevermind that none of that is true. There is something about the death of a parent that can cause us to revert to a childlike state.

And children are master's at learning how to please their parents.

https://medium.com/storygarden/gifted-children-deny-emotions-df6ec9c1e0b1