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summer solstice

arfie
arfie

my anxieties are through the roof this week. i'm blaming it on the longest days of the year. summer solstice is thursday. my reaction to longer days is not as problematic as the hibernation urges i feel during the long nights of winter solstice. my tendency to the longer days is to burn myself out with all the extra daylight. as i wear myself to a proverbial nub, i start getting cranky with extra panic attacks, etc.


anybody else feeling the solstice?

Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
That sux Arf..... No I've hit a low spot so I can hardly get out of bed..... I wish we could meet somewhere in the middle.... Sending a big hug of calm.... xo
arfie
arfie
the only thing harder than finding that balance between the extremes is keeping that balance between the extremes. i'm happy to report that mine isn't much more than a cloud in the summer sky. here on the southern great plains, clouds are a good thing. we think clear, blue skies are highly overrated. over the course of 12 year droughts and the like, all those blue skies start to feel like clear and present danger.

hope you find your energy reserves soon, suncloud. hope healing happens here.
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
Thank you...xo
Community LeaderLeo
Leo
If I sleep more than eight hours this week, I will be amazed. That's how I am with the summer solstice. A time of great sunny weather and joy for otheres always meant harder times with no escape for me, so I am ecstatic to see the autumn equinox. I feel much more balanced, no puns intended.

Support to you.
arfie
arfie
yeah, i've known all too many sibs-in-healing who remember childhood summers as inescapable isolation with mentally ill family members. i felt safer sleeping outside, so summer meant more comfortable campsites.

hands down, my favorite part of living in ecuador was the daylight consistency. 12 hour days, 12 hour nights, 12 months a year. balance personified. the weather varied far more by altitude than season.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Yeah, arfie, by virtue of its name itself Ecuador would be a heckuva place to experience the solstice, wouldn't it? And as you say, it's about altitude rather than season, so Guayaquil v Quito was a matter of worlds apart.

We down in Uruguay, on the other hand, were with the pinguinos from Antarctica... Ha!
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