Everyone does it. I hope you know this!
I'm talking about faking it. No, not faking that. Faking everything else.
Pretending to like something you don't like just so you "don't rock the boat"
Doing things for others that you don't want to do because "it's the right thing to do."
Ignoring self-care tasks because everyone else needs to be the priority.
Pretending you are fine when you have chronic pain because you don't want to be the "Debbie Downer"
Working full-time and being the primary caregiver for another person and cleaning everything all alone.
Triple checking everything because if something goes wrong, it's ALL ON YOU
Struggling to trust anyone other than yourself
Worrying about finances all night
Obsessing over that dumb thing you said yesterday and wasn't received well, thinking maybe next time you could say something better and it would be better or maybe it wouldn't and you should think about all of this some more
And you trust others to do the things they say they are going to do.
You can hold others accountable without arguments or threatening
And you DON'T do things that are not serving you.
And no, it's not about having everything be sunshine and rainbows and never having a care in the world
it's about letting go of the worries, the control and the anxiety
It's about stepping into healthy boundaries that actually work
And taking care of your body so you are here for a long time, maybe a good time, but not just for a panic time
Time to give yourself permission to slow down
Time to seriously get out of fight-flight-freeze so your body doesn't just break down from the decades of chaos
Time to find + enjoy the richness that life has to offer
Feeling like they have been stressed for years and years without the payoff they thought it would be
...and honestly more stress than ever
If I had free time, would I even know what to do with it?
What does fun even look like?
How comfortable am I with PLAY? Do I even know how anymore?
Can I ever trust that anyone can take responsibility?
Am I allowed to have non-negotiable self-care?
Am I wanting too much?
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