Post by dogswithbigears on Dec 16, 2013 1:13:53 GMT
I am having a BIG struggle within myself at the moment - don't worry, I won't go into details on the PMA board - and am drifting through days, weeks, months with little idea or memory of what I'm doing with my time. As a consequence, everyday self care has gone out the window and the longer this continues the more overwhelmed I'll become by the to-do list. And the more I'll berate myself for not doing it ALL, RIGHT NOW. I'm sure this sounds familiar to most of you...
So today I decided to try to break the pattern a bit. Every day, I am going to write down all the positive things I have done, date it, and blu-tack it somewhere conspicuous.
I have been catching myself invalidating anything I do that IS positive by telling myself that it doesn't count because I didn't do some other thing that I am supposed to do. Whilst I've been aware of doing it, this awareness hasn't stopped me continuing to give myself A Hard Time.
I thought having a visual reminder might help. And maybe it could help someone else too.
So today I decided to try to break the pattern a bit. Every day, I am going to write down all the positive things I have done, date it, and blu-tack it somewhere conspicuous.
I have been catching myself invalidating anything I do that IS positive by telling myself that it doesn't count because I didn't do some other thing that I am supposed to do. Whilst I've been aware of doing it, this awareness hasn't stopped me continuing to give myself A Hard Time.
I thought having a visual reminder might help. And maybe it could help someone else too.
