I really like this post. You have a good therapist. I need to adopt this approach and in fact started earlier today before reading your post. Small bites. Complete a task. Feel the satisfaction. Trying not to be overwhelmed by life and our personal problems. All the best to you, Richard
With therapy this time round I'm taking the approach of just talking aith my "shrink." I'm finding that answers click into place readily because I'm talking without necessarily seeing it as a curative process. It's like jigsaw pieces come out of my mouth and out themselves together in front of my eyes. She just listens and occasionally intersperses - if she can get a word in edgeways!
I share your discouragement. When we're surrounded by so much sheer meanness, fear, and hatred on a daily basis, and yet we ourselves refuse to be that way, it is simply exhausting. I too drive myself to do too much because I think I "should" and not because I genuinely want to. Stepping back and re-prioritizing, and choosing some things because they restore us and feed us, and some because they help others, as well as all the daily tasks we need to do, seems like a positive way forward. Glad to hear you are writing again.
I really like this post. You have a good therapist. I need to adopt this approach and in fact started earlier today before reading your post. Small bites. Complete a task. Feel the satisfaction. Trying not to be overwhelmed by life and our personal problems. All the best to you, Richard
With therapy this time round I'm taking the approach of just talking aith my "shrink." I'm finding that answers click into place readily because I'm talking without necessarily seeing it as a curative process. It's like jigsaw pieces come out of my mouth and out themselves together in front of my eyes. She just listens and occasionally intersperses - if she can get a word in edgeways!
I share your discouragement. When we're surrounded by so much sheer meanness, fear, and hatred on a daily basis, and yet we ourselves refuse to be that way, it is simply exhausting. I too drive myself to do too much because I think I "should" and not because I genuinely want to. Stepping back and re-prioritizing, and choosing some things because they restore us and feed us, and some because they help others, as well as all the daily tasks we need to do, seems like a positive way forward. Glad to hear you are writing again.
Thanks ever so much. It was a bit of a revelation to me, to be honest. R