I’m Marie Well, as in healthy well. At least, that’s my aim—to get well and make you well. We all have woes, from breakups to cancer to hoarder houses. I’m here to fix those woes—with tips mixed with my own tales.
Why read me? I’ve got a track record of fixin’ stuff. I’ve cured myself of anxiety. For a decade, I had anxiety attacks that struck almost daily. When not stricken, I’d write Voice articles, mostly on how to combat stress.
And then my world changed. One week went by with no attacks. A month. A year. Two years. And counting.
Now, I want to skyrocket our health—and bolster our creativity. After all, nothing soothes better than strokes of paint or tones of music or reps in a gym.
So, let’s get fit, creative, and well with Marie Well.
We don’t need to mentally hear, throughout the day, a choir of angels singing, “Oh come let us adore him” in order to be happy, although it helps, and it helps a lot. We can settle for making our hearts pure, even in soul-crushing times, times when angelic song seems distant. Here are five ways… Read more »
A body in motion stays in motion. The more time we spend learning skills, the more our focus turns into passion–and the quicker we arrive at mastery. Like an exponential curve, the more we fixate on developing a skill, the faster we move along that curve until we turn upward into the heights. That’s where… Read more »
If someone we love hurts us, we grow when we endure. Our loved ones may hurt us, sometimes so deeply that the wounds burrow, raw, to our core. But the secret of forgiveness is to give a vow, a mental marriage vow, to each and every one of our loved ones: I will love you… Read more »
At times we need better ways to memorize facts than simply rereading texts, which can be cumbersome and, frankly, time wasting. What we need instead is the silver bullet of memorization mastery, called mnemonics. And, in the case not even mnemonics works, I’ve covered other methods of memorization for us to try as well. I… Read more »
I’m pretty sure that the more we focus our thoughts on love, the more lovely we become, and the lovelier others appear in our eyes. So when another female comes into our vision, fixate on her. Think to ourselves, “I desire to spend the rest of my life with her.” And then smile and even… Read more »
University success demands a discipline that we all can learn. It could be argued that the students who claim honor’s degrees, scoring near-perfect GPAs, have two things going for them: (1) the right circumstances, such as plenty of free time for studies, and (2) mastery of study hacks. Let’s look at some study hacks for… Read more »
For most of my life, my idea of nature was a peanut in a Snicker’s bar. Blindly, I missed out on nature’s worlds of mysterious beauty, of sacredness, and of friendships with unlikely souls. I saw a clip about a 97-year-old man who wrote philosophy books, one of which was on dying. He seemed a… Read more »
Can we possibly identify with students plagued by exam anxiety, students so spacey during tests that just signing one’s name, reading the first question, and circling a single multiple choice answer takes the brunt of thirty minutes? What about the study nights where students feel so overwhelmed, so anxiety-riddled, that nine hours go by without… Read more »
I don’t know when the trend of throwing away all my keepsakes began. But I now know the regret that follows. I read that some people treasure keepsakes, and I never understood why. But when we cherish a piece of the heart someone left us in form of an object, we can later reflect. If… Read more »
Is there something we desperately want? But what we desire most can either rob us of our humanity or bring us closer to our truest nature. It’s helpful to note what was said by Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter for The West Wing and The Social Network: “You want to write the character as if they… Read more »