I’ve been quiet for the last few weeks. I’ve been taking some time off, and resetting my brain a bit. I thought I’d be back sooner, but realized I needed more “me” time.
We all need more “me” time right now.
We thought 2020 was hard, but our emotional reserves are showing empty in 2021.
Last week I felt stretched so thin. My son started kindergarten and I had deep feelings about sending him to school in person, not to mention it felt like a rite of passage towards a fast moving train of the next 13 years of “real” school, and I’ve spent so much time with him during Covid, I was having extreme separation blues. He, on the other hand, is having a blast and has had no issues whatsoever.
In a text stream with my sister last week she said something I cannot get out of my head.
“You do you.”
Three simple words. I made a post-it to remind me when:
I feel emotional and at the end of my rope.
I don’t feel seen or heard or feel completely invisible.
I have no more to give.
It hit me hard. Just like Rachel Hollis’ book, “Girl, Stop Apologizing.”
Where are you apologizing because you think you are not doing enough? Or you are concerned what others will think of you?
There is too damn much happening right now for us to apologize for what we aren’t doing and to feel shame that we are not doing enough.
Do what you can. It will be enough. You do you.
