Just some random musings on the state of my life this evening, journal style, because yes, I’m writing this in the evening even though it’ll show up first thing in the morning – not that that matters, because by the time you read it, it could be morning, it could be evening, it could be […]
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A Friday Favs with pictures this time! How glorious. What a thing – wait for it – to be grateful for. *grin* I was going to do this like picture – sentence – picture – sentence etc but I decided that would make the post unwieldy, so I’ve just popped the pictures in and captioned
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This one hit me hard at some point last year, right in the middle of trying to heal from burnout, trying to slow my life down so it doesn’t always feel like a breathless, frantic, slightly panicked rush. Therapy is great. Journalling (to my eternal irritation) works amazingly. Learning growth mindsets and cognitive behavioural therapy
Oof, this one’s rough. But it’s *worth* it. I remember too clearly that heading-for-burnout mental state where everything felt urgent, everything felt critical, nothing felt like something I could afford to drop. I used to make records of my time, trying to justify (to who?) why I felt so exhausted: See! Look! No spare time,
Somewhat ironic that, after posting last week about the necessity of Saturday rest in my life and the benefits thereof, I spent the weekend really struggling to do so. This year has been very focused on learning to let go of my high expectations for myself in terms of extreme productivity, on being really challenged
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Ever since I was a kid, Saturday has been rest day. In primary school (Years Kindy to 6), this was sometimes a bummer: there were a whole range of secular activities our family didn’t engage in on a Saturday, so it felt sometimes like we were missing out on bonding with our friends. High school
Other much more expert people than I have had much to say on this topic, so I intend to keep this brief. But I just wanted to note that so far, in my experience, being brave has never let me down yet. Lonely and feeling nervous to reach out? Do it. There are so many
Okay. Back for realsies this time – in theory! Turns out that last year took more of a toll on me than I’d thought, and I spent about four weeks staring at the wall, the ceiling, my bookcase, the floor – you name it, if I could stare vacantly at it, I did, for four
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It’s late in the year for this, officially, but unofficially, it’s never too late to make a fresh start. And I’m finally nearly almost kind of sort of scraping together enough brainpower to come up for air and start planning again, so for ME this is timely 😀 I finished all my Aurealis Award reading
