Traumatic Experiences Community Daily Check-in: Sunday February 3rd
Happy Sunday Trauma Community!
A simple check in for you to start off your week.
- What is one thing going well for you right now?
- What is one thing not going so well?
- What is one kind thing you can do for yourself today?
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@Kate
Hi everyone. I've been away from 7 Cups for a few months. I'm having a difficult time at the moment. About to move house and jobs and it's stressing me out quite a lot. I'm less able to cope with the little things. I think someone called me 'cranky' the other day.
When something pushed me over the edge at work the other day I got up out of my office and went to go sit with someone else with a cup of tea. It was much better than losing my temper with the people who work with me. So I suppose that was a good thing to do. But we're working long days at the moment and by the end of the week I was too tired to function. I slept for 16 hours Friday-Saturday and I've just spent today looking after myself. I feel lazy which isn't great. I've got a lot to do before I move but right now everything just makes me so tired...
@Roslyn992
Hi, Roslyn, welcome back.
I completely understand, moving can be quite stressful. I have just moved houses myself and I feel for you. It looks like there's a lot going on for you right now and it's a bit overwhelming. It's okay if you take the time to take care of yourself. Moving houses and jobs are big steps and not an easy thing to do. You are more than welcome to share your journey with us and check in whenever and however many times you need to.
I'm wondering, what helps you when you feel too stressed out usually?
Do you have any hobbies or self-care activities that make you feel more grounded and take the stress off of you for a bit?
You're not alone in this, I promise.
How do you feel about moving in general? Are you excited?
Hugs if wanted/needed.
@Ayla
So things got worse at work this week. I've been having the same discussion almost every day for the last two weeks with one of our senior managers (I don't actually work for him, but he has a lot of influence in what I do). I just can't get through to him and I think he's got sick of listening to me talk about it. I left his office yesterday with a migraine and went to my own senior manager to explain the situation to him and let him know that I didn't know what to do about it. The migraine got so bad that I couldn't really talk about it any more. My mouth went really dry and I got dizzy and light headed. He wanted to take me to a doctor and when I convinced him he didn't need to he insisted on driving me home and walking me to my door. I told him today that I was going to have to write the day off and he said he thought that was a good decision. I feel really bad because I know how worried he was last night and tomorrow I'm going to have to figure out what I'm going to do about the whole thing. I've been trying to talk it through with the two of them but it's not really going anywhere. I've only got a few weeks left in the job and I'll hate myself if we do this wrong but it's going to cost so much emotional energy to try to get it right...
A simple check in for you to start off your week.
- What is one thing going well for you right now? I'm cooking and working on my writing. . . I am very content with that.
- What is one thing not going so well? I keep over eating, and give myself a bellyache. I need to stop it.
- What is one kind thing you can do for yourself today? I enjoying the kitty bowl (Hallmark channel.) and posting my multi-part short story [edited for anonymity by Heather225]
@Kate I have been away for a few weeks. I didn't do so well after the time spent with my family over the holidays. I've been working on getting better. I'm not there yet, but I'm a little better than I was. I don't have anything else to say really. I hope everyone has been okay.
Good thing - I am on vacation somewhere with sunshine. :-)
Struggle - Dont know how to describe it. Pain. They Are very few places left in my brain for things to hide. Means healing in the long term yes but now so much pain and misery and stuff that I thought I just made disappear before, that I have to or seem to have to go through now in order to get real peace inside. Pain. Hurts.
Self-care-Hmm, This is a tricky one as my mind is giving me back its in pieces of my life. There was a time when I misunderstood things and I thought virtually everyone was angry with me or maybe I was suffering in so much pain because I was being punished. So I jumped right on the proverbial bandwagon that I thought was there, of people hating me not wanting me, wanting me to suffer, etc. I thought if I just kept pushing myself harder maybe I would get better. I think I was very cruel to myself sometimes. Its hard to change sometimes, especially when you have a bunch of junk from the past floating around in your head that youre fighting against. Sorry.
@pioneeringBanana1598 hello, i can relate in a sense. A lotofthe times people are not angry with u, justangry with their day or angry at the world andits veryyyy very easy to takeitout onother people evenby accident. Iknowbecause i accodentally have a bad attitude towards people all the time just bc im not feeling right. Andivealso had very evil things said n done to me just because the other person was suffering intheir own life. We need to realize peoples attitudes are not always our fault andgoingthrough traumatic and abusive situations very much makes us think we are not good we are not worthy, but it is them, not us. When youre given hate give love andunderstanding and you will definitely feel better than someone who gives hate everyday i promise that, ive lived it. Feels so much better to just understand that people are bad and it isnt our fault and we cant change them. Sorry if im off topic idk ur situation, just talking in general.
