My friend Holly shared this information with me and now I want to share it with you!
You’re anti-social. When I don’t say hello, or smile, it’s because I’m running the entire confrontation through my mind first because I’m nervous. By that time, usually the time has passed. You’re always sad. Not sad, just thoughtful. 99% of the day I’m running past or present scenarios through my mind. It’s like a replay on repeat 24/7. So, if I’m not smiling, it’s not because I’m down, it’s because I’m in thought. You’re so morbid. I like to think I’m realistic. As a depressive, I see things and experience things as they are, and can usually read between the lines of everyday niceties. I’m positively negative. You never do anything. I actually do do things, it just might not be as much as you. That’s because I need time to myself to refuel, not because I don’t want to do anything with you. You never smile. I do smile, somedays more than others. Again, usually I’m replaying interactions that have happened or will happen through my head. You drop off the face of the earth. It might seem like that, but it’s actually because there’s too much pressure. When I don’t tweet, post, or text for a while, I’m just recharging. You just sit in the bedroom all day. Most of the time, that’s because it’s my safe spot. I have control over the light, the environment, and what happens in it. I love other spaces, just not as much as I do my bedroom. God, you eat a lot. Yep. It’s my comfort zone when I’m down. And… I’m working on it. Do you struggle with depression? What are the most common things you hear? And how do you react to them? We’re in this together, let’s talk about it together!
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Just finished this book. It was a great, easy read. It is written as a bunch of short stories, which I loved! It had me laughing and crying at times. It had me reflecting on my own life and really gave me a new perspective on things. It is definitely going on my read again shelf.
This got me to thinking about my own life. I am far from perfect. I would describe myself as broken. However, in all my brokenness, God still picked me and continues to pick me each day no matter how broken I may be. So, as I started gathering some of the broken shells, I realized that being broken does not take away from their beauty. Each one was created by God and when he looks upon it, he does not focus on the brokenness, but on the beauty that is found within.
The same goes for you and I, we may be broken, but to God we are beautiful! Go ahead girl, embrace your brokenness. It is time to bring the outdoor smell of fall indoors! Here are some great combinations to diffuse to create a warm, cozy feeling in your home.
We hear a lot about the importance of self-care. Do we even know what self-care is? Self-care is about maintaining a healthy relationship with yourself. This is done by doing things to take care of your minds, bodies, and souls. This is best done by engaging in activities that promote well-being and reduce stress. By doing self-care, we are enhancing our ability to live fully, vibrantly, and effectively.
If you are currently engaging in self-care once in a while or when you can, I would like to encourage you to start adding self-care into your daily routine. YES, DAILY! When we take care of ourselves, we can then in turn take better care of those around us. The past few months have found many of us at home a lot more than normal or more than many of us are use to. It gets easy to feel like we do not deserve any “special” time for ourselves because we are around the house all the time now. For me, this is all the more reason to indulge myself in a little more special treatment. Check out the Daily Self-Care Checklist for some ideas to start adding to your daily schedule. Many of these may seem like common sense, but you would be surprised how many of us start to slack even on the smallest of things not realizing the great impact they can have on our mood and energy level.
As women, our identity shifts throughout our lives. We start as a daughter. Then we may go on to be a sister if our parents decide this. From there many of us take on the identity of a wife or significant other. If we are blessed or pursue expanding our family, we become mothers. Once our children are raised and move along, many of us find ourselves in an empty nest. This is where I have found myself. Alone. However, rather than looking at it as the empty nest syndrome, I want to think of it as an identity shift. I am still a mother, sister, daughter, but outside those labels what is my identity? Throughout the years it has shifted several times. Now I am in my fifties and find myself questioning what this latest identity shift means for me. We often base our identity on who we think we are or want to be. Often times we get so caught up in being a mother, wife, or friend, we lose who we really are. I am continuously trying to find myself outside any labels. My identity has shifted once again, this time I am going to embrace it. I am going to be just me and learn to love me. Hi, I am Stormi. So nice to finally meet you….. I started 2020 with a mission to define happiness. Now the definition may seem obvious to some people, but for me I was having a hard time clearly defining what it looked like in my life. For the past 20+ years I defined my happiness primarily being with my daughters. Then in the last few years I became an empty nester, which in turn I felt my happiness was gone. Then I came across an article that talked about being addicted to our unhappiness. We cling to what makes us unhappy because we are afraid to let go of the familiar. When we stop our addiction to living in the past or future, happiness will naturally happen. I am trying each day to learn to live for that day. To stop looking in the past and making myself sad with memories, and to not focus so much on the future thinking once this or that happens, I will be happy. I want to live in the moment, making new memories each day. That is happiness. “If one is unhappy, one wants to know the reason why. But it never occurs to one to ask why one is happy. It is therefore unhappiness, rather than happiness, that causes us to reflect upon our condition. It is unhappiness that makes us think.” Sangharakshita |
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