Do you ever find it's harder to justify spending time and energy on non-work stuff, and need to remind yourself that your joy is just as important? Me too. I wrote a blog post about how I'm wading through it: https://bit.ly/3ByfxhQ
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I am working towards letting go of the things that are out of my hands... even if that's incredibly hard to do. One aspect of anxiety is the powerful urge to try to be prepared for everything, to try to control things down to micro details.
This affirmation is for anyone who feel similarly. It is a reminder that we don't have to hold on so tightly to things that were never in our grasp in the first place:
I free my mind of what I cannot control.
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When I am on an anxiety spiral, it can be incredibly hard to remember that the thoughts flying through my head are necessarily facts... that the worst case scenarios are not the actual scenarios... and most of all that being an anxious person doesn't make me a lesser person.
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As the year is closing in, and winter is well drawn on, I'm thinking of the seeds I'm sewing for spring. What sorts of thoughts do you want to grow this coming year?
I want to grow more empathetic thoughts.
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do you ever feel like you are just spinning your wheels? i sometimes struggle with this a lot. i think it's probably important to take moments to look back over the last year (month, week, honestly even day & hour) and recognize everything that *has* happened. those little steps add up to great movement.
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i know i feel this especially when it comes to tasks that i have to do differently now as i become more accustomed to living with chronic pain. i'm trying to not just accept how i need to go about doing things, but lean into it.
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My Sensitivity Makes Me Strong
How many times has someone weaponized your sensitivity? How many times have you been made to feel soft and breakable? Our capacity to feel things, to empathize, to notice and take things in is a great & important strength.
"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde reminds us that our feelings are access points to our truths.
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This quote is from her interview with Claudia Tate, which can be found in 'Conversations With Audre Lorde' edited by Joan Wylie Hall.
Take a moment to recognize right where you are, right now. You came a long way to get to this space. We're are still growing, but my goodness we've done so much to be here.
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