Laugh Lines & Life Lessons

I’ve been living with depression, anxiety, and PTSD for over 35 years, and I’m about to start ketamine treatments after exhausting a lot of other options. This decision is years in the making because I’ve been deeply afraid of trying this. I’m debating whether documenting the experience and what it’s actually like would provide value to this community.

Would you be interested in that?

Please, I’m not looking for your input on why or why not I should or should not do it. I've been researching for a very long time and this decision was excruciating to make for me!

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We were taught that being tired meant you’d earned rest.

That if you just pushed through the day, night would take care of you.

No one prepared us for the version of tired that comes with no off-switch.

Where effort doesn’t buy relief and exhaustion doesn’t cash out into sleep.


I’ve been quieter lately, this is why. I’ll be back soon.

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I wrote this because too many people are exhausting themselves doing job hunting the slowest, hardest way possible. Start your new year throwing this approach out in the trash.

This isn’t a mindset book. It’s not motivational. It’s not about loving AI or fearing it.

It’s a practical field guide for using AI the way it actually helps:
🤖 getting your resume past ATS and in front of a human
🤖 drafting cover letters without staring at a blank screen
🤖 practicing interview questions without sounding rehearsed or fake
🤖 moving faster through the mechanical parts so your judgment still matters

AI isn’t the strategy. It’s the tool.

This book shows you how to use it without letting it flatten your voice, exaggerate your experience, or embarrass you.

If job hunting is already wearing you down, this is about conserving energy — not grinding harder.

www.sheilahammond.com/product-page/ai-for-the-mode…

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, friends.

If this season feels easy for you, I’m glad. If it feels heavy or weird or nothing like the commercials, you’re not doing it wrong. Remember that.

Also, you don’t owe anyone cheer, closure, or a personality upgrade before January first.

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People loved my Laid Off Survival Manual & Workbook so much (www.sheilahammond.com > shop), I decided to do another! And I'm stoked!

I’m building an AI job search guide for people who are smart, experienced, and deeply tired of being told to “just tweak their resume.”

Here’s what’s in it:

• MODULE 1: Welcome to the Modern Job Search (No, You’re Not Crazy)
• MODULE 2: Resume Survival Mode (ATS, Keywords, and Age Traps)
• MODULE 3: Intro to AI (How to Use It Without Letting It Humiliate You)
• MODULE 4: Intro to Prompts
• MODULE 5: Resume prompts (aligning, tightening, de-aging, without lying)
• MODULE 6: Cover letter prompts (clear, specific, not embarrassing)
• MODULE 7: Interview prep using AI (practice without sounding rehearsed)

Sound like something you can use?

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Some people leave behind movies. Some people leave behind language.

Stuff we say without thinking. Jokes we quote mid-argument.

Lines that somehow became part of how we flirt, fight, and tell the truth.

This one’s for Rob Reiner — and all the words we’ve been borrowing from him for decades without even realizing it.

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I lowered the price of the layoff manual.

Not because it wasn’t worth it. Not because I suddenly doubted the work. But because pricing this thing messed with my head more than I expected.

I kept thinking about the people who need it the most — the ones doing math in their heads before they even click buy. The ones deciding what can wait and what can’t. The ones already tired of being asked to prove they’re serious by spending money they’re nervous about.

The ones like me.

The price decrease isn't some grand gesture. It's not a sale. It’s just me trying to land this in the right place.

If you already bought it at the higher price, I refunded the difference. You didn’t overpay. I just adjusted. Thank you for trusting me before I figured that out. And thank you for your support.

If you’ve been on the fence, this is me scooting the chair back a little and saying: come on in.

🌐 www.sheilahammond.com/product-page/your-layoff-sur…

Sheila

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We were told to plan for setbacks, not erasure.
Save a little, tighten up, ride it out, and you’ll be back to normal.
No one explained what happens when normal never comes back.
At some point it stops being a financial dip and turns into a quiet rewrite of your life.
And somehow we’re still expected to feel guilty for not planning for a future nobody warned us about.

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I talk about my layoff a lot, so I finally wrote it all down.

It is a survival guide. It is a triage manual for when your job disappears and everyone immediately starts giving advice they have never had to follow themselves.

I took what actually happened to me after getting laid off—the money mistakes, the panic, and the first seventy-two hours where I signed things I should not have signed because someone with a title told me they were standard. I also put in the identity hit nobody warns you about.

This isn't about staying positive or reinventing yourself. This is a practical guide to do what you need to after layoff - survive without making it worse.

The first module is free because I wouldn't trust me either.

I kept the full price low on purpose because I remember what it feels like to calculate purchases when you're side-eying your money like it's cotton candy in rainstorm.

Go to www.sheilahammond.com and click <Shop>. You will see the main workbook, and I also broke it into smaller sections so you can take what helps you and ignore what does not.


I would genuinely like your feedback.

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