Academia and Self-Care (Part 2): Acceptance and Commitment

We consider some high-level thoughts about self-care, boundaries, and academia.

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Academia and Self-Care: Uneasy Partners

Here we begin to explore the difficulty of self-care for academics because of the complexity of academic deadlines, and the role of academic coaching.

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Self-Regulation: Writing on the Hardest Days

We have written a fair amount about self-regulation in relation to writing. We have discussed strategies for starting, ways to persevere, ways to navigate around procrastination, and the joy of […]

Draft 0 and the Joy of Just Starting to Write

We’ve already written a fair deal about what it’s like to get stuck with writing, some strategies for overcoming stuckness, and what unstuck writing tends to feel like. Today, let’s […]

Announcing Our First Writing Group for Grad Students

We’re excited to announce that we’re launching our first writing group! It’ll be free throughout July as we gather feedback, and it’ll move to a subscription service in August charged […]

Writer’s Block (Part 3): Overwhelm

We’ve explored writer’s block in previous posts (Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here). Put simply, writer’s block is a constellation of feelings and experiences that is driven […]

Self-regulation (Part 2): Meeting Inspiration Half-way

In the first part of this series, we started considering how to treat writing as craft and not as a mysterious and inspired gift. Because the sad truth is that […]

Self-regulation (Part 1)

Writing requires many different kinds of self-regulation. The problem is, this term hides shocking complexity. But let’s try to get a handle on a specific piece of the self-regulation puzzle: […]

Psychological Research and Writing Strategies

All writing teachers and coaches have a toolbox of strategies, tips, and tricks for helping stuck learners. Practical experience is key, but academic studies offer another helpful perspective. At the […]

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