dealing with life

Measuring Anxiety and Depression Through Color and Stages

by Bill Brenner June 20, 2021 Coping tools

When you can measure what you’re going through, you can take steps to manage it. How to use the Anxiety Rainbow and the 5 Stages of Depression.

Channeling Freddie Mercury’s Work Ethic

by Bill Brenner June 4, 2020 Dealing with life

With a global health crisis raging and gut-wrenching street violence thrown in, we need our heroes to drive us forward.

Midlife Crisis in a Pandemic

by Bill Brenner May 4, 2020 Dealing with life

When a pandemic and a (fictionalized) prince create a self-critique.

3 Chilling Books to Help Us Face COVID-19

by Bill Brenner April 8, 2020 Infosec

To be truly prepared to deal with calamities, we must face some uncomfortable truths.

Zoom: Security Problem or Social Lifeline?

by Bill Brenner April 6, 2020 Infosec

Does Zoom have security issues? Yes, but there are ways to combat them.

Day 23: How I Try to Stay Sane

by Bill Brenner April 2, 2020 Coping tools

I’ve been self-quarantined for 23 days, but I have a long list of things keeping me sane.

3 Thoughts for 30 Days

by Bill Brenner April 1, 2020 Coping tools

We can handle self-quarantining for 30 more days if we leave the predictions to experts. Plus 2 more tips.

When the Best OCD Management Tools Fail (and What to Do About It)

by Bill Brenner March 27, 2020 Coping tools

Living in quarantine is hard. We’re all going to have bad moments. That’s OK.

COVID-19 Gratitude 3: Seeing My InfoSec Friends Fight the Bad Guys

by Bill Brenner March 26, 2020 Gratitude

When waves of anxiety wash over me in these difficult days, seeing my friends in infosec step up gives me strength.

Those Walls Closing In? You’re Not Crazy

by Bill Brenner March 25, 2020 Dealing with life

For all my writing about being positive, I’d be lying if I said I had it together all day, every day.

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