2am musings on recovery

[Toxic Positivity]

Beating ourselves up will get us nowhere. Why? Because it's not from a place of pressure and self-hatred that good work comes. At least not for me. I know a little pressure can be a good thing, but we have to see ourselves as what we are--recovering. Forgive the trite comparison to physical injury (which, by the way, all injuries are, including those to the structure and function of the brain, including what we would call depression), but you would not expect a recovering weightlifter in the gym, would you?

TAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF, FOR GOD'S SAKE. Sorry, I'm yelling now. I am yelling with the encouragement of a coach, if it helps. What we are attempting, all of us who however momentarily are choosing recovery, is an honest-to-God Olympic challenge. Treat it as such! There is no failing recovery. We have chosen to live for the sake of our loved ones, for the sake of hope, for the sake of our future selves. We have taken a rocket ship headed for planet Suicide and turned it around and decided to reverse thrust and slow our momentum and choose somewhere else among the stars to try to be. Do you understand how powerful that is? Do you understand how difficult that is?

Take it easy.

 

[roaming_soul]

Beating ourselves up will get us nowhere. Why? Because it's not from a place of pressure and self-hatred that good work comes. At least not for me. I know a little pressure can be a good thing, but we have to see ourselves as what we are--recovering. Forgive the trite comparison to physical injury (which, by the way, all injuries are, including those to the structure and function of the brain, including what we would call depression), but you would not expect a recovering weightlifter in the gym, would you?

TAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF, FOR GOD'S SAKE. Sorry, I'm yelling now. I am yelling with the encouragement of a coach, if it helps. What we are attempting, all of us who however momentarily are choosing recovery, is an honest-to-God Olympic challenge. Treat it as such! There is no failing recovery. We have chosen to live for the sake of our loved ones, for the sake of hope, for the sake of our future selves. We have taken a rocket ship headed for planet Suicide and turned it around and decided to reverse thrust and slow our momentum and choose somewhere else among the stars to try to be. Do you understand how powerful that is? Do you understand how difficult that is?

Take it easy.

I needed to read this today. Thank you