And Again!!

Hey guys my last blog I spoke about how powerful the word AND is and I really felt the need to speak more to that. I have had a lot of people reach out and tell me how much they needed to hear that and it really got me thinking about how much we don't give ourselves credit. We tend to allow our emotions to be the deciding factor on how we feel we are doing. When someone asks, " How are you doing?" What is the deciding factor you use to answer that question? I know for me and most everyone I know the answer depends heavily on how we are feeling. If I have had a rough day and I am sitting in my wallows, my answer is typically something like ," I am hanging in there." The truth could be that I am FEELING down or defeated, but I am still DOING ok. What I mean by that is that there are days when I am not feeling as good as I want to, I am disappointed with the way things are working out, or I am kicking my own butt because I am not as far as I want to be, but I am still doing all the things to get where I want to go......instead of giving myself credit for what I am doing, I get down on myself for the way I am feeling. This is where AND comes in again! I can be healing AND still do hard things. I can be tired AND still be kicking butt! I can be momming AND still struggling with my own insecurities. Our feelings are not a representation of how we are doing. I think this is so important to speak about because we often give our feelings too much power. We allow ourselves to believe that our feelings are the fuel gauge to our bodies. When someone is struggling with anxiety of depression and they are having a hard time with the feelings involved in that, they forget to give credit to themselves for what they are doing! I have a lot of clients that struggle with anxiety and depression and when they report that it was all they could do to get out of bed and shower, I am so proud that they did it! They are forgetting to give themselves credit for what they did, because they are giving their feelings all the power! They worked past the feelings and did something.......they were depressed AND they showered. Sometimes we have to remember to give credit to the little things, because we can't get to the big things without acknowledging the things it took to get there! I will keep this blog short today because I know I already spoke on this topic, but I did just want to reiterate that we don't have to allow our feelings to dictate how we are doing or how much credit we are giving ourselves!! Take a moment today to give yourself a pat on the back because you are still doing things, you maybe moving mountains or you may be barely holding on, but you are still holding on and that is important!!! You are important and you are doing important things! Don't allow feelings to downplay that. YOU GOT THIS!!!!