Love this episode! Most of the time, I don’t give myself permission to break up my routine ( can’t be so exhausting) To be honest my mornings are the worst! And just because I don’t let uncertainty bothers me 😖, thanks Drew ✨🌸✨
I had to laugh all the way through this because I so heavily relate, which is why I'm out here commenting instead of grocery shopping and running errands which was on my carefully prepared list for the week for this morning.
LOVE THIS PIECE. And hey, maybe, just maybe, it's a possible positive side effect of being in the elite group of the Anxious and Agitated. Even thought you are no longer a full-fledged member, you have retained a useful by-product? I feel I might have to take this on as a mini-project myself.
Oh the lessons I learned in recovery serve me very well EVERY DAY even years later. I say often that I didn't get the "old me" back. I got a better version. ;-)
Loving this interpretation of ‘me’/self… a better version👌🏼 It challenges the self-critical, victim-mentality of being an anxiety disorder sufferer and transforms it into a positive, uplifting outcome, worthy of patiently working towards and an ‘end state’ not cloaked in shame for revulsion. Thanks for yet another wonderful TAM episode… and I must say some absolutely fantastic comments from other TAM listeners/readers to boot.. all of which help me grasp the concept being outlined here by Drew even better, and apply to my own personal understanding. How I appreciate this community of people and the many perspectives they bring. Wonderful!
I love this Drew. Being flexible about routine is a skill and you just explained how it is a good thing at the same time took some of the pressure off. It all falls under the headline of accepting uncertainty. Doesn’t it?
I love this interpretation! Flexibility is a really important concept in mental health in my opinion. And yes, being flexible and not rigidly ritualizing things is a good way to accept the inescapable fluidity and uncertainty of life. Great observation Rochelle! :-)
Love that story. I’m discovering in my recovery that my “self care” rules and guidelines change the further along I go. It’s nothing that I’m intentionally doing but evolves to be less and less traveling towards normalcy. Funny how the more work you put into it the faster you recover. Who knew?🤣
My father used to say, what did you comb your hair with? An egg beater?? That’s the only time I’ve ever heard that expression except for now you in today’s writing. Thank you for that memory❤️ I love it when I shake up my self care routine and it’s because I have creative enthusiasm! It’s a good day unfolding!😊
Love this episode! Most of the time, I don’t give myself permission to break up my routine ( can’t be so exhausting) To be honest my mornings are the worst! And just because I don’t let uncertainty bothers me 😖, thanks Drew ✨🌸✨
"But this part of me also has to be cared for."
You bet.
I had to laugh all the way through this because I so heavily relate, which is why I'm out here commenting instead of grocery shopping and running errands which was on my carefully prepared list for the week for this morning.
LOVE THIS PIECE. And hey, maybe, just maybe, it's a possible positive side effect of being in the elite group of the Anxious and Agitated. Even thought you are no longer a full-fledged member, you have retained a useful by-product? I feel I might have to take this on as a mini-project myself.
Thanks, Drew!!
Oh the lessons I learned in recovery serve me very well EVERY DAY even years later. I say often that I didn't get the "old me" back. I got a better version. ;-)
Loving this interpretation of ‘me’/self… a better version👌🏼 It challenges the self-critical, victim-mentality of being an anxiety disorder sufferer and transforms it into a positive, uplifting outcome, worthy of patiently working towards and an ‘end state’ not cloaked in shame for revulsion. Thanks for yet another wonderful TAM episode… and I must say some absolutely fantastic comments from other TAM listeners/readers to boot.. all of which help me grasp the concept being outlined here by Drew even better, and apply to my own personal understanding. How I appreciate this community of people and the many perspectives they bring. Wonderful!
That's about the best any of us could hope for, I would say. Awesome. I'm sure being grateful just makes it all even better for you.
I love this Drew. Being flexible about routine is a skill and you just explained how it is a good thing at the same time took some of the pressure off. It all falls under the headline of accepting uncertainty. Doesn’t it?
I love this interpretation! Flexibility is a really important concept in mental health in my opinion. And yes, being flexible and not rigidly ritualizing things is a good way to accept the inescapable fluidity and uncertainty of life. Great observation Rochelle! :-)
Love that story. I’m discovering in my recovery that my “self care” rules and guidelines change the further along I go. It’s nothing that I’m intentionally doing but evolves to be less and less traveling towards normalcy. Funny how the more work you put into it the faster you recover. Who knew?🤣
My father used to say, what did you comb your hair with? An egg beater?? That’s the only time I’ve ever heard that expression except for now you in today’s writing. Thank you for that memory❤️ I love it when I shake up my self care routine and it’s because I have creative enthusiasm! It’s a good day unfolding!😊
Thanks Drew. It is good to mix things up a little sometimes to get out of a rut and be a little fresher, and not be OCD about it.