Thanks, Ami and Amber.
I think I'm still feeling as though taking care of the space ISN'T taking care of me.
Since the house is in limbo, and I don't know whether I can stay, and there's all that with my brother.
I believe I'll have a great joy in nesting when I finally land somewhere I can stay.
But the paperwork...now, that IS taking care of my needs, because if I don't do it well, I could lose big. And legally.
So that is an eternal struggle. Taking care of myself physically every day helps...eating right and exercising. I really let that go recently.
It's weird, I'm chaotic about it. If I take care of myself in one area, I tend to let all the others go flop.
For example, accepting dates with nice men has become a pleasant way to take care of my need for male company.
So I get all delighted about that but on a weekend when I DON'T have a social plan, I laze and decay and don't make progress with the other areas. And there's no evidence that social isolation is anything but a passing issue, and all I have to do is schedule things to make it different. But it's really easy to slip into total immobility.
Glad we're talking about this as a weekend is coming.
xo
Hops