I haven’t always been good about asking for support – and I still wouldn’t call it my superpower. But I’m getting better, thanks to a couple months’ worth of forced physical distance and emotional rollercoastering – and having good people to go the distance with.
Here are few things I do, places I go, what I reach for sometimes:
- daily stretching and meditation (most days)
- occasional howling at 8 under an open sky
- running and/or walking with friends
- sleeping on soft sheets with windows thrown open
- pausing for ‘no good reason’
- expressing my love and care and fear and pain
- dancing down the hallway to my own singing
- giving myself permission not to be doing stuff every minute
- writing stories (chipping away at my book)
- herbal tea, seltzer, earl grey with bergamot
- audiobooks / hardcover books / softcover books
- bad behavior and hollering when I have to
- good music floating through my rooms
- cold water with citrus
- colorful toenails
- soul music
- deep listening
- dreaming
- good shoes
- elastic waistbands
- fabulous earrings
- foul language
- poems to mull over
- essential oils
- belly laughs
- intermittent snacking
- lots of veggies and fruit
- talking with wise teachers
- moving slowly because why rush
- crafts, crafts, crafts! (I probably own 12 scissors, people!)
- incense and candles; they’re calming and smell so good
- greens! veggies, houseplants, trees outside my window
- being kind to myself, especially when I’m feeling over it all
- telling the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable
- not holding back, as much as I’m able
- happy tears, sad tears, rage crying
- touching the earth with hands, feet, body
- embracing my awkwardness
- letting myself be enough as is
- letting people help
- belly breaths
When I’m able to see it, I have a lot more support than I imagined. How about you? What’s working?
