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Moments in time album12/19/2023 ![]() Reach out to a friend, if there’s someone you feel you can trust with your toughest stuff. If you are drowning in negative thoughts or feelings, trying to articulate them can be helpful, to help distinguish your actual beliefs from the murk. If during the holidays you must be spend time with people you’ll find challenging, perhaps consider other ways to boundary yourself - for example by determining topic areas you are unwilling to discuss and/or taking breaks, even carving out a few minutes of alone time. Sometimes this means making the extremely hard choice of not sharing space with certain people or groups of people. Be conscious of your own boundaries and feel free to fortify them. Anyway if you need someone to give you permission to just do nothing, I hereby grant it. It can therefore take conscious effort for me to pause, even momentarily. I’m someone who struggles to do nothing or to rest my tendency is towards overwhelm and overwork. If what’s going to be best for you right now is just sitting on the couch, go for it. Actually doing something physical is oftentimes helpful, whether that’s yoga or running or any other exercise, or again just take a walk. I can’t tell you how often I seemingly forget about water all day and then have some and remember oh right water is great. Long exhales in particular, as you maybe know, are a way of signaling to our nervous systems we are safe to calm down. There’s no wrong way maybe meditate or maybe just consciously breathe for a few moments. Ditto, almost always helps to soak in hot water. Almost always helps to get some air, I find. ![]()
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