Too Too Busy? Try These Tips To Avoid Self-Destructing
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When you get too too busy, do you wait for when things “calm down” in order to take better care of yourself or to start planning things, but they never seem to actually calm down? You’re not alone! A lot of us in this community tend to be too too busy, including me! So I want to share some strategies on how to survive too too busy without self-destructing. What helps you from not self-destructing when you’re too too busy? Comment below, I’d love to hear your tips & tricks!
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I haven’t even scheduled in self care time for the last 5 yrs 🫣 so NOT counting that. My first to go is planning. And then everything spins out of control and I wonder why 🤦🏾♀️😖
January was really difficult to resume ‘work as usual’ after the holidays and I got super stuck. I started drinking more espresso to the point of it making me act like I wasn’t on my meds. I would then lose sleep and get stuck in a loop of feeling overwhelmed with everything and thus freeze with work. I felt like everything was important at once and get things started but nothing done.
Yes yes yes — monster energy was my espresso
Omg Jess YES - "have you tried not being on fire?" is THE REASON I have never thought much of the Employee Assistance Program counseling - I'm not going to find what I need from their emaculate little neurotypical toolbox. I need things explained differently - I know HOW to relax (...questionable - intellectually yes, in practice not so much but how do you enjoy things when you're on fire, anyway?), but I need a framework for assessing when I need it, what it looks like FOR ME, and when I need to run that "program" (because my brain is a computer; I have protocols and programs). I don't need to know WHAT or WHY, I need to know when and how.
For example, grief -- I'm learning that for me, grief is like emotional inflammation -- anything that already bothered me is going to be more irritating, but that doesn't mean I'm doing everything wrong and need a big change -- I can simply apply the Emotional 911 protocols, kinda like your emotional regulation box from a video or two ago, but it can also be anything that effectively lowers cortisol -- the reason for the emotional inflammation. Does music help relax you? Does body work (like massage rollers) help you reconnect? Do the one that sounds effortless (or adds the least amount of friction) and reassess.