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Assessing myself

ByMelissa2025-11-30

So I’m taking the Braverman Assessment for my naturopath. The Braverman Assessment, if you don’t know it, is a questionnaire that evaluates a person’s dominant personality type based on four key neurotransmitter profiles: dopamine, acetylcholine, GABA and serotonin.

Shower Thoughts

Divergent

ByMelissa2025-10-19

As I was walking along the river on a warm May morning, I noticed the salmon berry blossoms had begun to shed their pink petals, revealing the tiny, green drupelets that lay beneath.

ByMelissa2025-10-12

“Goodbye” I said, as I was leaving the house to run some errands. “Thank you” replied my husband absentmindedly from the kitchen. I paused on my way out the door, giving him a quizzical look. “Thank you for going away” he replied with a mischievous smile.

ByMelissa2025-10-05

The word of the day is draft.

ByMelissa2025-09-28

As I was checking out at the supermarket the other day, I noticed that the pork tenderloin I’d selected rang in as: “ptenderloin”. Is that a silent “p” I wondered, as in the word pterodactyl?

ByMelissa2025-09-14

The sign advertised pastries made “from scratch” and I wondered for the first time about the origin of this phrase. Surely it must sound odd to an ESL student, not unlike saying made “from itch”? Did it have something to do with the scraping of a bowl by hand?

Self Help

Know Your Weakness

ByMelissa2025-07-27

Knowing your weakness is a strength. As soon as you recognize and acknowledge your weakness, you can work around it. You can even work with it.

ByMelissa2023-08-02

It’s time for a hypothetical. If you haven’t played this game before: I come up with a thought provoking question for you to ponder. Sometimes it’s just a choice between two undesirable options (i.e. would you rather have sex with your sibling or a bear)

Shower Thoughts

Give Yourself Grace

ByMelissa2023-01-08

I wanted to talk to you about grace today.

Shower Thoughts

Bump n’ Grab

ByMelissa2022-10-29

Hitting my elbow the other day, right on the funny bone, got me thinking: Fuck, shit, motherfucker! But after that, as the pain subsided, I wondered: why are elbows so poorly designed and so easy to injure? And how can we improve them?

Assessing myself

Divergent

Thank you and Goodbye

First Draft

Ptenderloin

Made From Scratch

Know Your Weakness

Money, time or intelligence, a hypothetical.

Give Yourself Grace

Bump n’ Grab