Kate O'Reilly | Wit & Delight | Designing a Life Well-Lived https://witanddelight.com/author/kateoreilly/ A Lifestyle Blog Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:55:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 At the Height of My Career, I Gave It All up to Get Well https://witanddelight.com/2019/04/at-the-height-of-my-career-i-gave-it-all-up-to-get-well/ https://witanddelight.com/2019/04/at-the-height-of-my-career-i-gave-it-all-up-to-get-well/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000 https://witanddelight.com/?p=25917 Well, let’s start from the beginning. It was spring of 2015 when I woke up with acute pain on my right side, concentrated in my upper back and head. It didn’t happen overnight. I had experienced tightness and pain in my right shoulder blade and jaw for a few months, but on this particular morning, […]

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]]> https://witanddelight.com/2018/02/30-days-small-changes/feed/ 35 How-to Avoid Self-Help Inception and Be the Best You https://witanddelight.com/2018/01/being-best-you-avoiding-self-help-inception/ https://witanddelight.com/2018/01/being-best-you-avoiding-self-help-inception/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:00:06 +0000 https://witanddelight.com/?p=26412 Now that we’re inside a new year, there’s an abundance of information and articles coming at us about how to be our “best selves.” “New year, new you” they say. New me? Uhhhh. It’s not only unrealistic, it’s kind of unreasonable. Stick with me for a minute, because I’m going to propose something radical. If […]

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