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David Milgrim
David Milgrim

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MuddyUm

·1 day ago

Longing For Belonging At Work Is A Fool’s Errand

That I’ve been running for decades — As much as I’ve tried, I haven’t quite found my place in the world yet. For a long, long time, I powered forward thinking I’d find belonging through work. With success, I imagined feeling loved, appreciated, and needed — home, sweet, home.

Belonging

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Longing For Belonging At Work Is A Fool’s Errand
Longing For Belonging At Work Is A Fool’s Errand
Belonging

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MuddyUm

·Nov 22

Some Days Are Like This

Some luckily aren’t —

Comics

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Some Days Are Like This
Some Days Are Like This
Comics

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Nov 17

Healing By Feeling

The only way out is through — I don’t feel okay and probably never have. But I long to. I’ve been clenched in fear for as long as I can remember. I’ve talked about my feelings to great expense, but have only recently begun to feel them. The more I do, the more I realize that I…

Feelings

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Healing By Feeling
Healing By Feeling
Feelings

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Nov 8

Learning How To Be Nice To Myself

It’s not as easy as it sounds — Last session, my therapist told me to be nice to myself. But before I could clarify what exactly that meant, it was time to “release our shared space for the moment.” My first guess was that being nice could conceivably mean a carte blanche trip to Donut Dip.

Healing

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Learning How To Be Nice To Myself
Learning How To Be Nice To Myself
Healing

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Oct 24

Life Has a Cruel Sense of Humor

But, oh, to be laughing — Life deals us daily disappointments. Some small, some large. That’s non-negotiable. The question, I suppose, is how we respond.

Comics

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Life Has a Cruel Sense of Humor
Life Has a Cruel Sense of Humor
Comics

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Oct 17

A Little Hope Goes Almost Far Enough

But I’ll take whatever slivers I can conjure — The other day I was trying to cut a few flowers for the table when I accidentally lopped my head off. I called my doctor, but the “call-valuing” automated system said there were no available appointments for fourteen months and that my insurance doesn’t cover this kind of thing anyway.

Hope

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A Little Hope Goes Almost Far Enough
A Little Hope Goes Almost Far Enough
Hope

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Better Humans

·Jul 24

We Can’t Will Our Way To Wellbeing

But our minds can still get us there — Our culture suffers a destructive “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality that presumes that who we are and what we do is just a matter of choice. But we don’t have as much choice as we might like to think. And certainly less than we’ve been told. …

Self Improvement

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We Can’t Will Our Way To Wellbeing
We Can’t Will Our Way To Wellbeing
Self Improvement

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Published in

Slackjaw

·Apr 26

Who Needs Real Friends When I Have Alternative Friends?

I only hope my phone doesn’t get jealous —

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Who Needs Real Friends When I Have Alternative Friends?
Who Needs Real Friends When I Have Alternative Friends?
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Better Humans

·Apr 24

Let’s Get Back to Doing What We Are Evolutionarily Optimized to Do

Trusting each other is astonishingly win-win and has won-won us everything we have ever had — Prior to the pandemic, one thing I certainly wouldn’t have thought to prescribe for our already socially malnourished culture was a massive infusion of “social distancing.” Unless, of course, I was trying to kill it. But maybe, witnessing a large-scale social breakdown during the pandemic — while we were at…

Psychology

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Let’s Get Back to Doing What We Are Evolutionarily Optimized to Do
Let’s Get Back to Doing What We Are Evolutionarily Optimized to Do
Psychology

6 min read


Published in

The Haven

·Mar 9

The Adventures of Feeling Fighter

Battling his nemesis with naps, coffee, and donuts… —

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The Adventures of Feeling Fighter
The Adventures of Feeling Fighter
Comics

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David Milgrim

David Milgrim

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Trying to feel okay, one comic at a time. www.OneComicAtATime.com

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