![]() When you ignore your needs long enough, you will be forced to prioritize yourself by circumstance, illness, or burnout, bringing you abruptly to the crisis point of having to slow down.īut even in the face of that, attending to the need for sustenance can sometimes still feel impossible if you are exhausted from a lifetime of holding it all together. Your body is infinitely wise and makes more noise as your ache for care compounds itself. They become rowdier and rowdier, nipping at your heels as you try to outrun them. They don’t just vanish or disappear when you ignore them. ![]() The tricky thing about this pattern is that needs will get met one way or another. I was good at putting everyone else’s needs ahead of my own. Even as this pattern started to break down for me, I could feel my ego attachment to it. Exceptionally good in a crisis, I felt born for running myself into the ground and then picking up the pieces just enough to get back to work. ![]() Those days were exhilarating because even in my burnout I felt so purposeful, high on how good I was at pushing my needs aside to tackle whatever needed tackling. I’d crash from striving and producing without a thought to my needs and then stop just long enough to treat myself just kindly enough to nurse myself back to health so that I could resume my breakneck speed. I’d care for myself just enough so that I could be productive again and then get back to work until my next care emergency. What message are you giving to yourself when you wait until you’re in crisis before you begin caring for yourself? I used to be deeply entrenched in this pattern.
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