Share I think I have an answer. An answer to the questions that have been keeping me sleepless for months. Why am I so stressed? Why can’t I sleep? Why do I forget to eat? Why can’t I get rid of this cough? How come I am always behind? Why do I run out of [...]
About Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
The Lies That Happen At 1:30 AM
Share I woke up around 1:30 AM last night. Spent the next few hours curled up in the fetal position, silently shaking & sobbing. Silent as in sound. So my daughter would not hear me as she slept two rooms away. Silent as in no texting. So those closest to me would not be revolted [...]
Hermiting Up for the Holidays
Share I have not left my apartment for almost four days. Haven’t left since I went and saw Harry Potter at the 9:45 am showing on Thanksgiving Day. Not even to check my mail. Not to Peet’s for coffee. Not to run to the corner store for more Diet Dr. Pepper. I’ve been playing marathon [...]
At the End of My Thirty-Fifth Year
Share There are a thousand differences between last year’s and this. A healthy daughter. A new city. A different business. No car. Adventures and love and sex and bffs. T-shirts. Pole dancing. A MacBook. A tattoo. But all that wonderfulness is just stuffs and locations and happenings. The real difference is that I finally let [...]
There Is No Group. (aka Why I Might Drop Dead.)
Share I considered myself a speaker. Someone who is comfortable in front of an audience. A group. A camera. Who can connect with people, talk to anyone, convey a message. Even occasionally create a little scared space for transformation to occur. Until Sunday morning. When I realized that all my lofty considerations were just hiding [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.