When I’m overwhelmed, I imagine I’m talking to my 5-year-old self. I wouldn't yell at a scared kid, so I won't yell at myself. "It's okay. We will get through this." 🧸 #InnerChild #SelfSoothing #BipolarLife
Read today’s Club post: https://open.substack.com/pub/speakingbipolar/p/speak-softly-to-the-scared-kid-inside?r=y4fp9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The power of poetry!
https://acrlog.org/2025/01/29/tell-me-about-despair-the-power-of-poetry-for-self-soothing/
#poetry #selfsoothing #memorization #verse #neuroscience #reading #literature #acrl
When I tell someone that I’m a librarian, I often either get a joke about the Dewey Decimal System, or a sighed-out exclamation along the lines of, “Oh, I wish that I could spend all day reading books!” in response. To the former, I usually mumble something about LOC and move on, to the latter When I tell someone that I’m a librarian, I often either get a joke about the Dewey Decimal System, or a sighed-out exclamation along the lines of, “Oh, I wish that I could spend all day reading books!” in response. To the former, I usually mumble something about LOC and move on, to the latter
Woke up feeling triggered and disregulated this morning (I know why), so upping the self-care today:
- did a self-soothing meditation
- put on the fairy lights
- put an item associated with comfort on my desk
- will light a scented candle because I find aromatherapy helpful (I know not everyone does).
Built and wired in a new station in my studio this weekend. I love it sohohoho muhuhuch 😭 (Those are tears of joy.)
I have to meet at least 6 new people today.
I am giving myself pep talks because the social anxiety has crept in.
I'll get through this discomfort(repeating this personal mantra).
Sweaty hands, shaky nerves & all, it shall pass.
#SelfSoothing with a #train through Scotland.
Great British Journeys series, Episode 1 - The West Highland Line. Sit back, relax and watch the awe-inspiring Scottish Highlands as the views change from fi...
A whole lot of things are going badly wrong in my life at the moment, so I will write about three good things that happened today in an attempt to cheer myself up:
- My son sat the ACT test today and felt that he had done well.
- I was in a library earlier where I had the pleasure of watching the Music Core stages of Kep1er -- Shooting Star, Nicole -- 5!6!7!8!, and ARTMS -- Virtual Angel. All three songs hit the spot with me, and today I was particularly taken with the Kep1ian audience's vocal support, Nicole's disco strings and male dancer, and Choerry's mauve minidress and silver stiletto heeled boots.
- I was fascinated to learn more about C17 French political thinker and librarian Gabriel Naudé. I am both attracted and repelled by what I have read of his ideas, so I am keen to learn more.
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