Tag: stress
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Balance & Stability
Two words that can be used to describe pretty much nothing at the moment if you were to scan the news headlines. Rather don’t. I did which I swore I would not do, and now I’m suffering the consequences. Prime Ministers fleeing countries, pushed out of office, Billionaires buggering around with buyouts and bots, Dystopian…
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Beautiful, Broken but not beaten
This week has been surreal and traumatic on a level that cannot be comprehended, nor articulated and the effects of which have not yet even begun to sink in. I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel bouts of disassociation or depersonalisation.That feeling where you feel like you are not actually in your own…
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Oh my gawd we’re back again
I think I may just go insaneIs there anyone who can tell me moreHow the hell to survive adjusted level four Am I stressed at all?YeahAm I pissed off much?YeahAm I feeling constrained?YeahThe kids better get their shit together now. I confess I had just been watching This Is Pop on Netflix and had just…
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Day Derailed
It started off like any other day… Me trying to figure out what day it is, which kid was going to do what or go where while I worked. Someone was crying. Probably me but at this point does it even matter? Throw in a last minute Tennis lessons for Aiden – where the time…
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Knock knock. Whose there?
What happens when hopelessness starts to creep in? The soft, low grade, vibration that is there in the background getting louder and louder, so slowly that you hardly notice. But it’s there alright, and starting to make itself known. The slightly off feeling. The unsteady-unsure feeling – self doubt? A bit shaky? A bit on…
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Thank you 20/20
Usually, at this time of year, I am frazzled beyond recognition.Usually, at this time of year, it’s a downward spiral of stress from October.Usually, at this time of year, I’m overstretched, overcommitted, overwhelmed and over it. Usually. But 2020 has been anything but usual. For the first time that I can recall I am not…
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