Making the bed is so much easier when you have someone else (even virtually!) present. Basically body-doubling but less work.
also, being patient with yourself! much easier said than done I know but not beating myself up for my emotions and letting myself feel them without Shame has definitely helped me move through them more easily.
Mar 9, 2024
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it's helped me get through so many tasks i've dreaded or was too depressed or bogged down in the details to do. even just sitting in silence with another human working on their own thing is helpful. even if it's virtual! sometimes it's just hard to do stuff alone. and talking through stuff with someone who has more grace for me than i do can help get me out of my head
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Sometimes you won’t love the task you’re doing— you won’t feel that impulse toward it that makes forming a new habit easier or more enjoyable, and that’s hard.
If it helps, reframe it as love of your future self— when you get out of bed and make the bed, this is an act of love from your morning to your evening— a fresh bed, and a body that has moved around.
When you delete your apps (which is legitimately hard, and designed to feel difficult) you are gifting yourself attention— the apps want your attention because it is valuable! Your time, your energy, your feeling and softness, is valuable— choosing to give it to a future version of yourself, a person who has new skills, or a more developed hobby, because you were doing the hardest, earliest work of dedicating your time.
Try starting with two things: get out of bed and make it, and drink a glass of water. If you take vitamins or pills, creating a morning habit out of drinking water is good. If not, it’s still good to hydrate! And making your bed will make it easier to stay out of bed.
Feb 19, 2025
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I know this sounds like faffy lightweight advice, but I’ve learned that the #1 thing you can do to help in stressful times is avoid moralizing and beating yourself up over your perceived failures to Do All The Stuff You’re Supposed To Do.
So, you didn’t fold your laundry? Big deal! Things will slow down at some point and you can get back on track.
Freeing yourself from self-imposed judgments takes a huge mental load off and helps clarify priorities and what you can focus on to get out of the hole.
Apr 25, 2024
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Every time I enter into some kind of emotional spiral (good or bad, lol!) I make one of these. Or when I want to organize my thoughts around a creative project, or just for ~funsies~ (🤮)
I love collaging but I don’t always have the resources or energy to make a physical one and once you get the hang of it, this is a super easy way to do it!!
Feb 28, 2024
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What’s That? Oh, we both love steely dan and hate cyclists that wear the little outfits ? (Not bc we hate the fit- we do, we just hate that they give you a dirty look when they roll through a stop sign and it‘s your turn to drive more)
it starts with you liking one of my recs (obviously), then, feeling generous, I like one of yours that’s either a micro-complaint or link to a specific, hard-to-find performance of an ethereal 70s jazz singer.
We follow each other back and… the rest is history as they say…
And by history I mean we dm on Instagram nightly until eventually we meet people that live on our own coasts and our flirtation becomes merely a memory
But a beautiful one at that
Jan 26, 2024
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DON’T WANNA GROW UP I WANNA GET OUT HEY TAKE ME AWAY
Mar 9, 2024