In my experience of mental health, being in recovery and creating a life that I wake up each day and look forward to, I can say I’ve come a long way already.
So much has happened in my life. There is so much crap on some days that no one deserves to go through. But also so many moments of flourishing, and smiles and belly laughs until my stomach hurts and my eyes stream.
Life can be funny.
But to live? It will be an awfully big adventure.
I no longer see every day as a chore. An effort I just don’t have from the moment I open my eyes in the morning. I don’t crave my bed before I even get dressed at the start of the day. I’m basically not wishing the day away anymore.
I take it a moment at a time, not rushing but living and manifesting a good day. When I think of my life even just last month, to where I am now? I was barely living… I was just about surviving. Things could have been very different had I not chosen to change my direction. I might not have realised at the time, but every decision we make from waking to sleeping matters and can lead us to very different positions by the end of the day.
We can choose to understand how we’re feeling, validate ourselves where it’s due, and accept the emotions that come up. Or we can ignore our warning signs, allow our emotions to become unstable, and therefore, our behaviours not reflect our recovery through a choice that could have been so so different.
If you find yourself weighing up the pros and cons, practising mindfulness daily, choosing to stay in wise mind by combining emotion mind and rational mind to get the answer that needs to happen, whether that’s what you want or not, then you are creating a life worth all that hard work. Even if it’s the opposite of what you feel like doing in the moment, what is the action that NEEDS to be taken.
Wants Vs. Needs.
Pros. Vs Cons
Always ALWAYS a choice that you need to make.
When you get through the appointment that you were thinking about cancelling last minute?
That’s personal growth!
When you get out of bed and have a shower in preparation for going out with friends, when you really want to snooze your alarm and forget about your plans?
That’s personal growth!
For me, today, when offered to have my say in someone else’s decisions and choose for them, but actually accept that life doesn’t have to revolve around me all the time. That my family can make decisions without basing it on my mental state or mood in that moment. When I choose to accept the choices they can make for themselves and actually encourage them to decide as an individual who can?
I felt proud of that…
Because it is personal growth.
Not all progress is visible. Some are actually saying no to your inner critic. The little whisper that soon becomes a deafening scream that you feel you can’t ignore. But actually I have dome just that!
YOU CAN CHOOSE PERSONAL GROWTH!
21st April 2025
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