“She needed to slow down but she just couldn’t” – 07/03/21

“You need to learn to sit with yourself” she said to me. I looked back at her with wet eyes, trying to decide how and why I should do this. “Take time for yourself” phrases I hear in my head when I’m saying ‘yes’ to too many plans. I’ve always been this way, always on the go. Jumping to the next thing, one after another. It catches up to me though. Eventually I depend too much on others, eventually I get stressed beyond control, eventually I end up in hospitals completely out of touch with reality. How does one change these habits that are at the core of who they are? Through sitting with oneself? Through self care Saturdays?