Give Yourself Credit for Showing Up

It’s Much Easier to Just Check Out

Russ W
4 min readNov 13, 2023
Photo by Zulian Firmansyah on Unsplash

There are a million ways to check out. Pick a screen, any screen. Distractions are calling, and they promise relief.

It’s tempting to be anywhere but right here, right now. Depending on where you look, “now” can be a very scary place.

War(s), mass shootings, corporate fraud, social injustice…

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Russ W

Addiction therapist with an alphabet soup of degrees. Writer. Creative. Human. Hit me up: russ.w.medium@gmail.com