Bridget Sullivan

Over the past several years I have been living life as a series of experiments, with a spattering of time-bound “fun” challenges. I hate journaling so to keep track, I am doing it as a blog-thing, and this is it. I also have an insta specific to this page @calmthejelly

In my professional life I have been working in HR and Communications for well over two decades. In my non-work time I have been focusing on Emotional Intelligence (EQ) teaching and learning, Heart Rate Variability (HRT) improvement and brain+heart coherence, micro meditation, grounding, hormones, diet, endometriosis, adenomyosis, perhaps a rant on the state of our medical system being so broken, and maybe some poems, stories, memento mori thoughts, and bits of art.

My undergrad degree was in Art, I needed health insurance out of college so I signed up for the cubicle life. I have a nearly always empty Etsy shop named ifeltthesky with a very spartan http://www.ifeltthesky.com website to go with it, both quite neglected at the moment.

Currently I am trying to fix a very broken autonomic nervous system that seems to be from nothing in particular, except being a middle aged female living in the Northeast with an average amount of stress fighting with failing hormones sending me from specialist to specialist with a long list of prescriptions, no real answers, and no consistent relief. HRT has not been a magic bullet for me. But I have been able to start this blog/journal so it helped cut through some brain fog and gives me something to work on when I wake up at 3:17am, daily.

My life philosophy:

1. you are always making a choice, constantly, all the tiny ones add up to the big ones

2. what works for me may not work for you, so don’t take my advice as the right advice for you, it might be terrible

Background – how it began, my first big successful experiment was losing 100+lbs using a CGM with intermittent fasting in 2021. Next mission was getting my attention/focus back. When I realized I went from an avid reader over the years to not being able to finish one 250 page “fun” book, but could doom scroll for hours. I needed to stop.  So, I started going to a local meet-up comic book club. That was 2 years ago (as of Dec 2025). I now go to a sci-fi book club, recently started a horror one, and read books on my own, for fun. Social media started to fade away and I saw that our attention is such a valuable resource, it is currency.