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Hopalong:
I've had very long cycles of this and am also often circadianly upside down, Mouse. I can relate. Everybody's got their own path through--I hope you find relief.
The rest of this isn't advice, just me nattering about myself (as usual). I just wind myself down as best I can. The recent more regular exercise is really helping, and the SAD light every morning first thing, up to an hour. I had been so sedentary for so long I forgot the benefits of being physically tired. Duh.
I'm not on anti-anxiety meds but have benzos on hand for anxiety if need be. Haaven't opened the bottle but it's a reassurance to know it's there. I don't help myself with screen time but if I switch to an anodyne or benign film or listen to StoryCorps, that helps the worry cycle not start up. https://storycorps.org/ I've never gotten into podcasts because I don't have the right bedside setup, but I should. Meditation things, for example.
I'm getting better about doomscrolling, not consuming as much scary/negative stuff online. I still read news in the AMs but for less long, and not late at night mostly.
I have caffeine, two cups tea in the mornings. Then I'm cut off or I'd never sleep.
Hope it eases, Mouse. I know what hell worry can be.
hugs
Hops
Hopalong:
"Anything" seems like a good place to put some good words I just came across:
In The Art of Holding Space: a practice of love, liberation, and leadership, author Heather Plett writes, “Holding Space is what we do when we walk alongside a person or group on a journey through liminal space. We do this without making them feel inadequate, trying to fix them, or trying to impact the outcome. We open our hearts, offer unconditional support, and let go of judgement and control. At the heart of holding space is a willingness to sit with ambiguity, loss, struggle, darkness, uncertainty, joy, anger, fear, anticipation — all of the complexity of what it means to be human.”
lighter:
That was a very timely post, Hops!
Thank you!!
Lighter
Hopalong:
Hugs.
I'm not often good at holding space (wearing my waders and CoD Nurse Hops outfit) so those words got to me. In a GOOD way!
hugs
Hops
Hopalong:
Sometimes one sees a woman's girlhood, youth and long years of her maturity up to the verge of old age all spent in tending, obeying, caressing, and perhaps supporting, a maternal vampire who can never be caressed and obeyed enough. The sacrifice--but there are two opinions about that--may be beautiful; the old woman who exacts it is not.
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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