We All Fall Down

This self-awareness business is bloody exhausting.

Name any emotion you can and in the last 7 days, I have felt it. Thankfully, on Friday I had a much-needed counselling session.

It truly amazes me how some simple questions can uncover so much and I now have a lot more insight into why have been feeling the way I have recently. Also, realise why I am reacting the way I am to certain situations.

This week, we discussed my work situation, why I was feeling like a failure and more importantly why I need to rest. My key takeaways were to not keep adding to my pot by making endless plans (oops) and to practice mindfulness, simple things like breathing and eating mindfully.

I left the session to meet my friend for lunch, I drove so I could make sure that I wasn’t going to get drunk, which does my anxiety no good. We had a lovely catch up and it was nice to actually go back home sober and have the evening with the husband and the kids.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take the advice given on Saturday either as I had a full day planned, I went to my friends to have my nails and waxing done (technically self-care) then onto the hair salon to get my hair put in pin curls for the evening celebration of my best friends birthday.