Thank you so much for the time, effort, and thoughtfulness you put into writing this, and a special thank you for recording it. I have auditory processing challenges but I also am dyslexic and have long-term impacts from a TBI that make physical reading very difficult and sometimes impossible. So being able to do both at the same time is very helpful. I appreciate the things that you said in the blog. I relate to them. I hope for you less physical and mental pain, and I hope for you that your efforts to know, understand, experience, and express the positive things in you and in your life are fulfilled.
Tearing up at this, thank you so much, dear Dawn-Marie. I appreciate you sharing your story here, even more motivation to keep making things accessible. I hope the same things for you. ❤️🩹❤️
Aw Sam, thanks so much for reading and letting me know. We listened to each other’s posts today so we basically had a conversation, and that makes me happy!
Love this. I too noticed a huge positive shift in my daily life when I changed my perspective. Finding joy feels impossible when you’re in the thick of LC but I thought I had nothing to lose to try. At first I felt like I was struggling to find things to enjoy, now I can easily list a few things that actually bring me joy despite still only being at about 60%. Another thing I stopped doing that I think was subconsciously self sabotaging was saying “I over did it”. Now try to just live in the moment and if my body reacts, I look at it as my body pushing its boundaries to test what’s next.
Aw appreciate you! Tell me about it, today I wanted to grab something from the basement so I thought to myself, I’ll go down unless my heart rate is above 100. It was 113. 🫠 Doing our best! Thank you so much.
Also, I'm so glad. It's not me most days either, thankfully. Had a friend's birthday dinner after writing this post, and have been feeling the "hangover." Grateful for the good days/weeks, though!
LOVED listening to this, thanks so much for the audio! And I loved your reminder to pay attention to the statements on your list that provoke a reaction. Today, it was about productivity being better. But on the whole I think I am, like you, feeling pretty good about the whole list. I'm traveling right now and it's been really amazing to see how little hiccups and setbacks that might have left me frazzled before I am now able to take in stride thanks to learning to live with chronic illness. Sending love your way!
Oh that makes me so happy, Sage! I really appreciate you listening and sharing.
I love how you’ve called out that a specific belief might pop up on certain days for whatever reason. Healing seems to be upward-spiral shaped and I return to the same things repeatedly, but usually with a bit more perspective.
It’s amazing to hear that you’re traveling and noticing those moments! Wishing you a good trip and a gentle return to baseline. Receiving and returning the love, thank you!
Love all of this. Had to learn this too. Still noticing when I tel myself “I feel shit”. What’s interesting is when I’m able to get quiet and tune into my body, it’s telling me a different story.
Totally agree about the beliefs too. Still working on disempowering ones that surface. Wrote a heck of a chapter on the power of belief that done some work on today.
Thank you🥲 I am deepening a lot of the messaging atm. How the reader feels and them being seen and understood throughout is really important to me. That's taken a lot of care and consideration of their nervous symptom, trauma imprint etc. It's an enormous amount of work so I also have to take regular breaks from it weeks, even months at time.
It’s all about noticing! As my old life coach, Mollie Birney used to say, “those thoughts have the mic.” It’s less about changing our thoughts (they’re thoughts, we have no control over them! lol), and more about changing our relationship to them. I always liked that!
Definitely been all about the relationship with me too - befriending thoughts, what we might call inner critic - and even pain. Its the path that's taken me furthest and helped when it came to learning to love and support myself unconditionally.
Thank you so much for the time, effort, and thoughtfulness you put into writing this, and a special thank you for recording it. I have auditory processing challenges but I also am dyslexic and have long-term impacts from a TBI that make physical reading very difficult and sometimes impossible. So being able to do both at the same time is very helpful. I appreciate the things that you said in the blog. I relate to them. I hope for you less physical and mental pain, and I hope for you that your efforts to know, understand, experience, and express the positive things in you and in your life are fulfilled.
Tearing up at this, thank you so much, dear Dawn-Marie. I appreciate you sharing your story here, even more motivation to keep making things accessible. I hope the same things for you. ❤️🩹❤️
This was so grounding. Thank you. I loved listening to this.
Aw Sam, thanks so much for reading and letting me know. We listened to each other’s posts today so we basically had a conversation, and that makes me happy!
I love that sentiment. That makes me happy too.
Love this. I too noticed a huge positive shift in my daily life when I changed my perspective. Finding joy feels impossible when you’re in the thick of LC but I thought I had nothing to lose to try. At first I felt like I was struggling to find things to enjoy, now I can easily list a few things that actually bring me joy despite still only being at about 60%. Another thing I stopped doing that I think was subconsciously self sabotaging was saying “I over did it”. Now try to just live in the moment and if my body reacts, I look at it as my body pushing its boundaries to test what’s next.
Thank you, Lauren! And such a good point about how language can subconsciously sabotage progress. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
I can so realate to the standing hug in the kitchen❤️ Going and grabbing a coffee with a pulse of 120 is so stressing! Beautifully written 😍💫
Aw appreciate you! Tell me about it, today I wanted to grab something from the basement so I thought to myself, I’ll go down unless my heart rate is above 100. It was 113. 🫠 Doing our best! Thank you so much.
This isn’t me anymore though. Getting my spine stable again and fixing my asymmetric hips was key ❤️
I glad to hear you are improving❤️ We all got to find our way out of this maze🫶🏻
That's so interesting - I had a 20% scoliosis curve as a kid. Send me a DM if you would be up for sharing more? x
Also, I'm so glad. It's not me most days either, thankfully. Had a friend's birthday dinner after writing this post, and have been feeling the "hangover." Grateful for the good days/weeks, though!
LOVED listening to this, thanks so much for the audio! And I loved your reminder to pay attention to the statements on your list that provoke a reaction. Today, it was about productivity being better. But on the whole I think I am, like you, feeling pretty good about the whole list. I'm traveling right now and it's been really amazing to see how little hiccups and setbacks that might have left me frazzled before I am now able to take in stride thanks to learning to live with chronic illness. Sending love your way!
Oh that makes me so happy, Sage! I really appreciate you listening and sharing.
I love how you’ve called out that a specific belief might pop up on certain days for whatever reason. Healing seems to be upward-spiral shaped and I return to the same things repeatedly, but usually with a bit more perspective.
It’s amazing to hear that you’re traveling and noticing those moments! Wishing you a good trip and a gentle return to baseline. Receiving and returning the love, thank you!
Love all of this. Had to learn this too. Still noticing when I tel myself “I feel shit”. What’s interesting is when I’m able to get quiet and tune into my body, it’s telling me a different story.
Totally agree about the beliefs too. Still working on disempowering ones that surface. Wrote a heck of a chapter on the power of belief that done some work on today.
I also admire how you’re always writing! Churning through those chapters, lady 🩷
Thank you🥲 I am deepening a lot of the messaging atm. How the reader feels and them being seen and understood throughout is really important to me. That's taken a lot of care and consideration of their nervous symptom, trauma imprint etc. It's an enormous amount of work so I also have to take regular breaks from it weeks, even months at time.
Compassion for the reader and yourself sounds like the perfect path for getting it out into the world 🫶
It’s all about noticing! As my old life coach, Mollie Birney used to say, “those thoughts have the mic.” It’s less about changing our thoughts (they’re thoughts, we have no control over them! lol), and more about changing our relationship to them. I always liked that!
Definitely been all about the relationship with me too - befriending thoughts, what we might call inner critic - and even pain. Its the path that's taken me furthest and helped when it came to learning to love and support myself unconditionally.