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Hey there, dear ones. If you’ve been feeling emotions of helplessness, stress, frustrations and shame of late, I invite you to stay with me through this post.

I’ve been experiencing a combination of those feelings these past some months, brought about by increased work intensity, life things in general, but more particularly, navigating through some health challenges and injuries that the people I love are having to deal with, myself included.

Earlier today, a renewed and heightened sense of those same feelings surfaced after a stressful walk with Sadie that ended with some excessive lunging by her that ended with me experiencing a debilitating pain in my right wrist, a pain that felt indicative of a re-injury of my tendon.

I was consumed by the sheer thought of this healing process feeling like it’s a constant one step forward then two steps back, that’s it’s taking so dang long, that I can’t manage simple daily tasks without pain and discomfort, that I’m inhibited from fulling access my physicalities, that I’m not able to make the most of my time. These thoughts and feelings were familiar; it’s that of the ingrained upbringing of the need to hustle, and to always have it all together; it’s that of the shame spiral of non-productivity.

When I get in my head during such times, here’re some little things I do to help regulate and soothe me through it:
- Cry; let it out.
- Take deep long breathes in and out.
- Talk to someone you can trust showing your most real, beautiful self to.
- Do something that makes my soul happy.
- Take a break from devices.
- Sleep/Nap/Rest.

Above it all, Acknowledge these very real feelings. Give it space. Sit or sleep or cry or talk through them. You’re not broken but more beautiful because of them.

Have a restful, kind, easy weekend on yourselves, treasured ones.

A kind and wise gentleman sitting next to me on the plane said to me turned and looked at me and said:

“I want you to have a good weekend.”

I said thank you, and asked that he do the same.

Reminder that the simplest of gestures can sometimes be the nicest moment of someone’s day.

I passed it on to the lady beside me afterwards.

I hope you’ll be blessed with moments like this today and everyday and then remembering to pass it on. You never know when someone needs it 😍❤️

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