10 (20) truths about doing a PhD
Which of these do you choose to be true for you?
blog | Magic | PhD thoughts | Spark
Dial up the joy in your PhD life
Opening up the possibility that PhD life – and the entire academic cosmos around it – can be a different way: that is joyful, pleasurable, full of ease and lightness and fun.
What’s so hard about doing a PhD anyway?
An overview of five unique challenges of PhD life and some ways to face them with more grace, clarity, ease, joy
What is ‘good enough’ for the PhD?
What the actual fuck does it mean to be ‘good enough’ in PhD or academia anyway?
blog | Ease | Messy thoughts | Sovereignty
You ≠ your fuck-ups
Instead of letting perfection define how you move, how can you get CURIOUS about it and let it move you forward?
blog | Ease | PhD thoughts | Spark
The PhD can be challenging AND joyful
Challenges/difficulties AND invigorating, stimulating, joyful fulfilment in the PhD process are not two mutually exclusively things.
Who are you in your PhD?
It becomes easy for us to conflate our whole sense of self with our PhD and our research. But we’re SO MUCH MORE than our PhDs…
The PhD is a strange thing
The PhD is a formless, undefinable, unpredictable, ever-changing, multi-faceted thing – this is why it’s all the more important to get super clear about YOUR intentions, goals and best work practices.
blog | PhD thoughts | Sovereignty | Spark
Your examiners DON’T know best
Your examiners’ assessment of your PhD is not the only one that matters (in fact it doesn’t need to matter at all). Here’s why.
blog | Ease | PhD thoughts | Sovereignty
That person you’re comparing to is a hot mess too
Consider these 3 things the very next time you start thinking, “But I suck and I’m failing my PhD because they’re doing better than me…”