Author: theapostateturtle

Hi everyone, I’m working on a pretty long post right now so I know that you’re all on the edges of your seats waiting for me to post every day (ok ok I might not have that huge of a following yet…) but I have a limited amount of electronics time so right now I’m…

I’ve still been reading through The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt, and it is definitely a good read. Today I read a chapter about things that make people happy. I don’t want to give away too much but social connections was pretty close to the top, obviously. Some other things in there were a sense…

This video appears like it was designed to be “preaching to the choir” of people who are already atheists, who are frustrated after dealing with the majority of our countrymen being theists, and who are looking for a place to decompress after a long day. However, that is pretty much the audience that I’m picturing…

The (Mostly) Happy Beginning I was never a hand-raiser. Although we lived in a small city, my parents took it upon themselves to drive us 45 minutes away from home, deeper and deeper into nowhere until we were on unpaved roads and arrived at an almost-secret church in a village in the mountains. There, we…

I spent most of the day procuring enough time with electronics to watch this video in its entirety. Being a fully-fledged adult entering into middle age and having to fight to do simple things such as this is an unfortunate side-effect of the level of care that I am receiving and cannot be avoided, which…

I had a good conversation with my doctor today. He said that he generally provided solutions-focused treatment and wasn’t much for “existential musings,” but that maybe the latter was what I really needed. So we talked about the belief systems that I grew up with that taught me that I was evil, and which in…

Ugh. It’s just been another day with C-PTSD, but this is what I mean when I say that my baseline sucks. Yesterday morning, I was happy. I woke up early, read from my self-help book, worked on my new blog that I’m still really excited about, and things were fine. Then, as a result of…

I started out on another site but switched over to this one because I thought it would be a better fit. Please bear with me as I learn to use a much more complicated blogging platform! I would also deeply appreciate tips on things to do to improve my website design skills 🙂

[Please note that I copied and pasted this post and the two previous ones from another blog, which makes this post make a bit less sense. I’m leaving it as it is for the sake of consistency, but I am very excited to have upgraded to a site that seems to have more potential! The…

     Good morning! It made me happy yesterday that some friends who I confided in and trusted to keep this blog anonymous looked at it and gave me their feedback. One friend was concerned and wanted to be supportive of me because she derived from my post that I was suffering from low self-esteem….