when I realize that feeling this way is just a slump and a temporary rut, that’s half the battle. Perfect Days (2024) is a great example of this. Sometimes things just snowball and little things or obstacles that I would normally breeze by feel insurmountable and full of (bad) meaning. I start to make all these assumptions about myself. But if I’m reminded that it’s just a couple bad days and the reactions I’m having are just feelings, I realize it will pass. That allows me to *start* doing something I want to do, or dig in to something I didn’t have the energy for. Doing the dishes, getting outside, taking a hot shower, a hard workout hastens the cloud and it clears eventually. It always does
Nov 25, 2024
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When you’re in a slump, you’re in a slump.
Let yourself feel things. The good and the bad. I welcome them like a visitor and I invite them at the pretend dinner table in my head and get to know them, and I try not to ask them why they’re here. Why I feel things. I just let them be. Know that this will pass, just like a person visiting for a few nights and I try not to hold on to them when they’re ready to leave (yes those feelings will pass). Sounds very cliché but they do.
From my experience, the longer I fight the sadness/depression/slump, the longer it stays. I’ve learned just to take it day by day. This wouldn’t be possible without months of therapy where it was revealed to me that I’ve been so hard on myself almost my entire life.
I also meditate every night for 15-20 minutes. I take this activity so seriously, just a few minutes to close my eyes and release the tension I’ve felt the whole day. I love staying still. I love to close my eyes and think of nothing. My drive will come back.
What also helps (for me) is taking a few minutes a day to go outside and letting the sun touch my skin. It feels so good. Listen to the birds. Listen to the traffic. Just observe your surroundings and remember that there is life outside you and you are a part of something big and eventually you get inspired by something. May it be small or big. It will come back to you.
Be gentle and kind to yourself <3
Apr 25, 2024
sometimes i feel really bad because i feel like i‘m too emotional about certain things that may appear to be really objectively insignificant or small to most people, but then i have to remind myself of this. it’s okay to feel things deeply and to give yourself time to process them. sometimes i’ll end up with my whole day ruined because of something banal, but i think the only reason why i feel guilty about this is because there’s an expectation that we need to keep pushing and keep going all the time. but its okay to take a day off! stay at home! be with friends! be alone! do something that will make you feel good instead and try again tomorrow! this statement is obviously true for good things as well - if you try making small positive changes to how you spend your day that will result in a better day… or at least it should… i feel like my mood changes really easily and really often and that can be hard to deal with sometimes but then i have to remind myself it’s okay and even if i can’t always control these things i’m in control of if/how i let myself process them
Jan 13, 2025
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Not on an emotional level - that seems impossible sometimes.
Rather physically. Remind yourself you‘re attached to a body. Remind yourself you can experience the world around you.
For instance, splash your face with cold water, multiple times. If you‘re cold, let warm water run over your wrists, it warms you up quick.
Put yourself out there in the (chilly) wind and/or sun. Either open a window and stick your head out or - if you can get yourself to do that - really go outside for a walk. Could be a quick five minute stroll or an extensive one. Also helps clearing your head of any noise.
Reconnect with nature while you‘re at it. Just touch your environment. Do it. Touch the leaves you pass by, touch the tree branches, step into puddles, pick up flowers, blow a dandelion. If you have the opportunity, (if you‘re living near a farm or similar) pet animals.
Those things usually help me regain a bit of positivity or any (positive) feeling of being human at all.
Hope this helps, slumps suck, but there‘s better days ahead. After all flowers need rain to grow, no? 💐
Jan 24, 2025
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a study issued last month found that dancing is the most effective way of treating and mitigating depression. Walking, therapy, and yoga also outpaced SSRIs. and if you're saying 'oh this was probably funded by Big Dance', there's no evidence of that and if you're saying 'that's just what a Big Dance shill would say', well honey you're right
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Reminder that most of what we do is a performance
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