Thank you, and YES. The interwoven nature of it! The happy chemicals that are manufactured in the gut/digestion. The pain that's best managed by movement, when you've been sitting still reading to cheer yourself up, and your joints and muscles stiffen up.
The old tapes that play and harmonize with or amplify the song of the brainweasels.
I feel like a juggler. How did I do this and hold down a teaching job? Answer: I did it poorly. I do juggle much better now.
Just had a therapy session, she saw me on short notice. Among the homework assignments was advice to continue doing today's self care, and make sure to encourage my own *enjoyment* of it. Eat lunch and enjoy it. Soak sore bones in the tub, and enjoy THAT.
Awhile back I gave myself permission to not make up stories about why my eyes might be leaking. I just let it happen whenever it does. I wake up, and spend 15 min slowly stretching and letting my eyes leak stress chemicals down my face. It seems to help keep me on an even keel along with the other things I do.
Thanks for the notes and the validation, and for sharing your own experience. It does help.
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The old tapes that play and harmonize with or amplify the song of the brainweasels.
I feel like a juggler. How did I do this and hold down a teaching job? Answer: I did it poorly. I do juggle much better now.
Just had a therapy session, she saw me on short notice. Among the homework assignments was advice to continue doing today's self care, and make sure to encourage my own *enjoyment* of it. Eat lunch and enjoy it. Soak sore bones in the tub, and enjoy THAT.
Awhile back I gave myself permission to not make up stories about why my eyes might be leaking. I just let it happen whenever it does. I wake up, and spend 15 min slowly stretching and letting my eyes leak stress chemicals down my face. It seems to help keep me on an even keel along with the other things I do.
Thanks for the notes and the validation, and for sharing your own experience. It does help.