Hi Detia...I just started grad school so I totally know how you feel. I am not sure how old you are but with grad school it's even harder because the teachers don't hold your hand like they do in high school and undergrad. You have to find your own way....

I love what Thunder Bow said about you sleeping under the tree. Finding these little ways to care for yourself is so important. I like to come home, light incense, play some tribal or spiritual music...something with a drum beat, that gives you a taste of something other than city life.

I am also struggling with lack of motivation and loneliness. I am 25 and still live with my folks. I have almost no friends. It will feel like being in a long dark tunnel sometimes but knowing that you are part of an online community of like-minded people just like you can be so healing, Detia.

My major advice is to seek balance. When I started grad school, I immediately felt all this pressure to be this Type-A personality like all my classmates...as it went on though, I realized I would never be that and that it was better to just be myself and take it easy.

Be kind to yourself.

~Alma