What do you do when you feel good, life is good but then life. Life happens. Something happens that takes the wind out of your sails.
How do you respond? By buying ice cream and watching movies? By going back to the basics and doing self care?
If you said number 2, you are correct! Get your head back in the game and take the wind out of living in survival again!
Journal. Write down the feelings, thoughts and emotions that are dragging you down.
Find gratitude in the midst of feeling as though you are being forced back into survival.
Reach out to your support system. Talk to them about what is going on, ask for prayer, ask for advice.
Do some self care. Rest and read. Get out in nature. Play a game with your children. Meet a friend for coffee. Use essential oils. Move your body. Cry. Take a bath. Take a nap.
Recently, I was in this place. So I did these things. Not in this order but I did them. I contacted a couple of people in my support system, talked about the situation, got advice, cried and prayed. I found gratefulness and thankfulness that things weren't worse, they are bad and I am concerned but it could be a lot worse than it is. I got out in nature and played croquet with my children barefoot in the grass. I felt myself grounding and releasing as we played, laughing and having fun. It felt so good. I also used essential oils to ground myself. My day got so much better I was able to think again, I was able to function and deal with life. I rested and took a nap, sleep always makes things look better! Most importantly, I didn't let a bad few minutes derail me, I got back to thriving instead of surviving.
What do you do to get out of survival and back to thriving?
What more can you do to ensure that you can not be pushed back into survival?
The Lord is exalted, indeed, he lives in heaven; he fills Zion with justice and fairness.
He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him. Isaiah 33:5-6