Thank you for sharing and opening the space for reflection again! I was delighted to get this in my inbox. Taking the move as welcome permission to delete the substack app too.
What’s working: early (for me) bedtime, guided meditations on insight timer, cozy fiction, so much food prep, a cute paint by number, putting time limits on my usual time-sucks (scrolling and cleaning) AND digging out my random activities/craft supplies so I have accessible alternatives, measuring choices against my defaults rather than hypothetical perfection, smiling at the moon, slowly working through a lifetime’s worth of rage (this one is kind of a mixed bag), ugly journaling, giving compliments and thank you notes, and incorporating more play when working with kids or being with my own kids. I also heard Bea Victoria Albina on the Even Here, Even Now podcast and something about the way she speaks and conceptualizes things totally clicked me as a person who’s interested in IFS and somatics, personally and professionally. She has a podcast and just wrote a book too.
Thank you for sharing and opening the space for reflection again! I was delighted to get this in my inbox. Taking the move as welcome permission to delete the substack app too.
What’s working: early (for me) bedtime, guided meditations on insight timer, cozy fiction, so much food prep, a cute paint by number, putting time limits on my usual time-sucks (scrolling and cleaning) AND digging out my random activities/craft supplies so I have accessible alternatives, measuring choices against my defaults rather than hypothetical perfection, smiling at the moon, slowly working through a lifetime’s worth of rage (this one is kind of a mixed bag), ugly journaling, giving compliments and thank you notes, and incorporating more play when working with kids or being with my own kids. I also heard Bea Victoria Albina on the Even Here, Even Now podcast and something about the way she speaks and conceptualizes things totally clicked me as a person who’s interested in IFS and somatics, personally and professionally. She has a podcast and just wrote a book too.