How to Recover From Feeling Bad
Last week I was not doing well. I woke up and I felt unmotivated, not like myself, and extremely sad.
There was an external factor and news I found out that attributed to that but a lot of it was also internalized. This time of year I tend to get flashbacks and triggers due to the water and atmosphere. Tends to happen when you go through something major during a prominent season.
I had 2-3 days where I genuinely was having a hard time doing anything but escaping through TikTok. I tried so hard and every thing I tried to do I felt like more of a failure. Then everything I didn't do that I knew I SHOULD do made me feel even worse.
This is what I did. The night after my 2 or 3rd bad day I wrote 6 things I wanted to do in the morning and started hyping myself up for them. They were things I knew I could do and wanted to do for myself. They were simple and even though I didn't want to do half of them I knew it would benefit me greatly.
Let me tell you how they went.
- Out of bed at 8 am - I passed this one with flying colors
- Workout - I threw up in the bathroom 3/4ths of the way through my workout because of a health drink I had before and had to go home early
- Go for a walk - ended up just being a walk to the gym and back
- Stretch - I got on the floor of the kitchen and did a 10 minute stretch
- Make breakfast - I ate breakfast and when my boyfriend asked me if I was okay I bawled my eyes out for 10-20 minutes
- Meditate - 10 minutes on the bed and I felt like I was out of practice and distracted
- My morning did NOT go as I planned but guess what? I did it.
Even though I didn't reap every benefit and it was still not what I wanted I felt better than I did the days before. I felt like I tried and I did something for myself.
I literally threw up and cried but I did it. Then guess what happened the next day? I felt so much lighter. I had a good day and the next day was good too. After that I had a great day and now I feel like my normal self.
It's all because I made the choice to try and CONTINUE to try even though I wasn't 100% yet.
Don't wait to be 100% start with doing something like writing out a to do list for yourself TODAY. You got this <3
