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Lately sadness has been visiting. We’ve talked about why they‘re around, and I understand. They can stay as long as they need.
I don’t need them to change, or leave. They’re with me while I’m making waffles with my son. They’re with us on our trip to the record store to buy a gift for my sister. I make space for them when it’s needed, otherwise they’re just another part of the gang. It’s not a problem to be solved. Their existence just requires an expansion of loving to wrap them in. Sadness deserves kindness and gentleness, too.
Jun 15, 2024
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Feel them hard and strong
Feel sad when you’re sad
Feel mad when you’re mad
Make space for joy to come through
Don’t make yourself suffer, let them pass
Make lists of gratitude
Feel the sunshine
Move your body
Cuddle with a stuffie, an animal, a person
Eat nourishing food
Eat sugary fun food
Treat yourself as if you are your own child, and you are your own mother.
Be tender with yourself.
It might take time, dear, but the light always comes back.
May 25, 2024
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I’ve been having a hard time lately and I really wanted to abandon the day but instead I’m saying hello to the bus driver with pink puffy eyes I’m letting tears fall freely onto the park bench I’m staring despondently out the sandwich shop window
It’s not about romanticizing your sadness. It’s actually not about you at all. It’s about the unusually colored pigeon and the dad and son throwing a football while they walk down the street and hearing Chaka Khan’s My Love is Alive blaring from a modded 2003 Honda civic that will, even if it’s just briefly, pull you out of the cave.
Allow your feelings to interact with the world. Find reminders of what life was, is, and can be beyond and within these feelings.
Go for a walk, enjoy the taste of your salty tears, and when you’re ready, lay down in the grass until you’re itchy enough to remember there are sensations other than this dull ache. Then buy yourself an impracticality large bottle of water. Maybe go see a movie by yourself.
May 4, 2024
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How do y'all navigate trough sadness?
Just curious. Sadness is an emotion I always felt was a constant in my life, paired with anxiety. I deal with it. But sometimes it really sucks. Well, I mean...right now, in this very moment. Because I'm sad. Now.
Apr 21, 2024
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For some reason this brings me into my parasympathetic nervous system
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