Lot’s of the tiniest of steps can take you amazing places.
In the pool with my 5 year old daughter today, she taught me an invaluable lesson about tiny steps and perseverance.
Going back to the start, I need to tell you that’s she’s quite afraid of water. She’ll sit on the steps of the pool, she won’t trust the floaty vest to keep her safe in the deeper water. But today we learned our lesson. (more…)
A thought has just occurred to you. It’s come out of nowhere. But all at once, it feels like you have a big hard knot in your stomach, and that your stomach has dropped into your shoes.
Breathing gets hard, you can’t quite seem to get enough air in your lungs – and it’s not the 10 ciggs you smoked last night. (more…)
Relax.
Enjoy the moment.
You’ve had a big year. Take a breathe and remember that you can take a few days of downtime without having to fill it with jobs, chores, tasks or projects.
There are going to be days where you’re so tired you can’t function. That’s ok. Be kind to yourself and take the time you need to rest.
No matter how busy, tiring, or stressful your day was, always make time to connect with your people before sleep.
Some days it feels like everyone around you is melting down. They’re having panic attacks or big emotions that just can’t be contained. No matter how much you try to logic or rationalise to them, nothing brings them relief.
Add to that you’re own inability to deal with strong emotions, or inability to deal with feeling helpless. Or impatience with them for not just “getting over it”, or not being able to “fix it” for them. (more…)
Get to it, you beautiful strong unicorn 🦄 💪
I’ve never worn red lipstick. I love the look, but I’ve never worn it. Why is that?
I could tell you it’s because I had yellow teeth and it didn’t suit me. But really it’s because I didn’t think that I could pull it off. It really comes down to confidence.
I like Mel Robbins definition of confidence.
“Confidence is the willingness to try.” —Mel Robbins
This morning in the shower, I was thinking about the red lipstick. Thinking do I actually like it? Perhaps I don’t.
And I realised that the reason that I thought I didn’t, was because I didn’t have feedback from others about whether they thought I could pull it off.
Then I thought about it. If no one else is involved, I f**king love red lipstick.
So wear the red lipstick. What ever your red lipstick is, just f**king do it.
Is it any wonder we’re an apathetic lot in Australia? We’re teased as kids for being weird, trying new things, liking uncommon things, doing things differently, being different. When all we want, is to fit in. (more…)
The contents of my brain today:
I’m too ugly. I’m too fat. I’m too busy. I have nothing worthy to say. I’m uninteresting. I’m boring. People are mean. It’s all too hard. Nothing’s ever going to be easy. I’m shit at everything. I’m always going to be shit at everything. Nobody likes me. I shouldn’t feel so edgy. That just makes me needy. I’m not allowed to feel this way. I’m tired. I want to eat all the brownie.
Today has been emotionally draining. So I’m going to keep telling myself, you’re allowed to feel that way. It’s ok. It’s normal. It’ll pass. But fucking hell, it’s hard. And some days just suck. Tomorrow may be better. It may not be. But it will get better. Some days just suck. Be kind to yourself, it’s ok sweetheart. (more…)
Do you shrink away, make yourself smaller so you don’t get noticed? Yeah me too. And it’s something I’m trying to give up. I’m trying to own the space that I so dearly want to take up. So much so, that there’s a lot of mantras coming out me at the moment. From the last post we have ‘say fuck it and have a go’. But that can be tough when we don’t think we deserve to take up the space we need to do that. (more…)
I have a confession. For so long, ever since I can remember, when asked to try something new, ‘nah’ was my default answer, followed by ‘I don’t think so’, or ‘not today’, or ‘perhaps another time when … ‘. It became my story. No new things. Ever. (more…)