Good day to all!
Every day poses its own unique challenges. Some days you feel like you crush them, and some days it feels like you could break under their crushing weight. This week, celebrate the victories and be a friend to yourself through the trying moments.
I don't care for toxic positivity. It's not all sunshine and rainbows. Life's a rocky road for everything that has ever ventured it.
I probably have the alphabet's acrostic poem worth of issues with the chemical imbalances in my brain. I can't find it in myself to 'see the light', so to speak, much, if ever. Sticking around and taking care of myself and my responsibilities seem like tall orders to me a lot of the time. Dedication to myself and to those whose lives I impact keep me working at them with deliberate actions and routines.
This has become one for me in the months since I started doing it. I think it's a priceless gift to yourself to find things that can be helpful or meaningful to you and choose to carve out the time to make them a part of your life and find the determination to put in the effort to keep them there. I hope you all have those little things for yourselves, or can find a way to incorporate some into your days soon.
I don't process the passing of time well and that makes me a little obsessed with finding ways to define and remember it. I try (and often fail) to journal daily, and I have Pinterest boards for every year with sections for each month that I try to add at least one thing that represents each day to, and I look for bad, 2012-esque memes about Mondays to clog up my phone with. It's a bonus that some others seem to enjoy them as well and I get to say hi to people I care about.
You don't make it this far if you're not a fighter. Keep up the good fight. Be kind and be brave, my friends.
Best,
Mary
(If you're curious about how my July is going, there's some out of context images here as well as everything else that comes with the embarrassing fact that Pinterest is the social media platform I spend the most time on and it shows.)
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