Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
My anxiety levels have been through the roof in recent weeks. This week I even have a literal component to the roof I have been going through. Roofing work on the Brood House with prayers that the Brood House and the Honey Barn will look like a matched set by the end of the rennovation. Yesterday morning, after the roofing crew postponed their work on account of weather, I declared myself to be in full psychotic episode and dropped everything to ply therapy tools. I'll spare you --and my arthritic fingers-- those gory details.
The detail which counts here is that I slept outside by my fire pit last night and woke feeling far more stable this morning. Not *over ^it^* but far more stable. Progress over perfection. . . Small steps. . . Platitude. . . Platitude. . .
As I eased my way into the morning, it occurred to me that it was the first time in a long time that I have slept without the television murmuring me to sleep. Hm-m-m-m. . . A sign that I need to take a media fast? ? ? How intense a media fast should I take?
Background:
I began taking media fasts in the 70's when "media" was newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Most of the internet fits neatly into that file drawer, but phone books and mailboxes don't. Sigh. . . Just when I have all the answers, The Cosmos go and change the questions. Why can't we pick one and stick to ^it^?
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
The roofers arrived in a timely and organized manner this morning. Watching young men work gets my vote as The Greatest Show on Earth. A studly sporting event where everybody wins.
I doesn't know, but I does believe the Old Brood House likes her new hat, even without the gutters and flashings scheduled to be installed later this week. Hubs has moved his work center in there and likes it allot. He works internet security, so I have taken to calling it, "Robo Cop Headquarters." He is not so sure he wants to spring for the sign over the door or the security station.
Tight wad. . .
I love tree houses. The one which floated into my mind as I read about yours had a living room window overlooking a small park in Cuenca, Ecuador. Immediately outside that second story window was a Bottle Brush tree which attracted all the hummingbird species of Ecuador like hoarders to a Black Friday Sale.
Best morning show EVER! ! !
Them silly birds never did tell me what they wanted in their coffee.
Day 3 of the media fast finds me eliminating only my entertainment media and it does, indeed, seem to be calming my anxiety levels.
Can I blame Mark for the out-of-the box entertainment of converting the clutter catcher room of the honey barn into a Birthday Room. It ain't no Tree House, but the almost 6 year old will be here tomorrow.
Background
The almost 6 year old is one of the 3 GK's who were escorted into protective custody foster care with the maternal grandparents after their cliche STBX drama escalated to a 911 call from the neighbors.