759: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself When Things Are Hard
I thought after 3 hard years, we had all earned at least 3 years of ease.\xa0\xa0\nBut, no.\xa0\nThe collective experience of enduring and existing in incredibly challenging times seems to have shifted from a universal experience to an individual experience.\xa03 years ago we were all in it together.\xa0Today, we are all enduring alone.\nSignificant workplace challenges, supporting our struggling children, losing loved ones, many of us cascading into our own mental health and/or addiction crises, and the list goes on\u2026\nThere is a lot of hard sh*t happening all around me - and mostly behind closed doors. It seems almost everyone I know is suffering in some sort of monumental way - and very privately.\xa0\nI\u2019m generally a glass-half-full person.\xa0I would say I\u2019m pretty resilient.\xa0But I do have a threshold under which I cry uncle for sure.\xa0\xa0\nAs I\u2019ve hit that threshold a few times recently, I\u2019ve tried to pay close attention to the questions I can ask myself that help me STAY.\xa0In the past I sat in hard moments and tried to push through, to move forward.\xa0But sometimes moving forward feels too hard.\xa0Too heavy of a lift.\xa0What are the questions that allow us to just STAY HERE, not necessarily the ones that force us to take on the world?\xa0\xa0\nI know some women who have opted out - permanently - in recent months.\xa0The pain too great.\xa0Too overwhelming.\xa0\xa0\nSometimes, it\u2019s ok to just STAY HERE and not necessarily need to take on the gargantuan task of actually moving forward.\xa0\xa0\nIn this episode, I talk you through 5 questions to ask yourself when you are in a hard moment - when you are committed to staying here but need to think through how to manage the moment.\xa0\xa0\n\nIMPORTANT NOTE: If you are struggling to stay here, please reach out to help.\xa0Call your primary care doctor and ask for help.\xa0Call your therapist or psychiatrist if you have one.\xa0If you are in WA or OR, you can reach out to Mindful Therapy at https://www.mindfultherapygroup.com, as I recently did.\xa0I was able to get an appointment within a week.\xa0If you do not have a medical professional you can reach out to, please dial 988 and they will help you find someone.\xa0The world needs you to stay here.\xa0\n\nLink mentioned:\nSuicide Hotline: Dial 988 or go to 988lifeline.org\n\nWe love the sponsors that make this show possible! \nYou can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor\nInterested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com\xa0\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices