I hope you know how much I love you and that I will always be here. You are a testament to what sheer tenacity and perseverance can do for a person.
As we come to the close of Mental Health Awareness Month, I thought it was important to get some things off my chest… Let’s Check In with One Another. First of all, I wanted to do a check-in. How are you doing? Are you checking in with yourself every day to check your emotional temperature?
Now if you don’t know, I have been providing coaching services for aspiring authors for about a year now. My coaching service teaches new authors how to self-publish, where to self-publish based on their unique needs, and how to reach their target market using social media. This has been a passion project for me since I love to help people reach their goals in general and wanted to assist someone in publishing their first book under their own name or company. In essence, I am helping folks become business owners and generate an additional stream of revenue.
The first step in recovery from mental illness is realizing you have a problem and the second step is seeking professional help. But is counseling really that easy to come by? The short answer is no. Let’s be real. Counseling can be out of most people’s price range. Even with insurance. Those co-pays add up
Now social distancing has been used to refer to how you conduct relationships with those who you feel may be toxic individuals to avoid future emotional injury. Social distancing differs from emotional cut-offs, which brings a finality to the relationship and does not allow for any exchange whatsoever. Social distancing is however different. Social distancing involves a partial emotional withdrawal of your presence in that person’s life with interaction but from a safe emotional distance.
I admit I am struggling with this. Radical acceptance is at best, radical. To just accept bad things as they come and resist the urge to fix it is hard. I may seem calm on the outside, but my dream life has been turbulent letting me know my subconscious is manifesting my fears for me. However, I am trying to push through despite feeling that I got to do something. I recognize that’s my anxiety talking and that what I need to do more than ever right now is practice faith and recognize that whatever happens is what was always meant to happen.
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