This week has taught me that End of Life preparations can be full of humor, self-reflection, and much learning. I was doing pretty well with it earlier in the week. But I hit a breaking point yesterday afternoon. Probably compounded by too many other things needing my attention, research, and attention. And lots of driving all week, especially yesterday. It was a slow down hill on my roller coaster.
Today I am tired and the emotions are drowning me. Gratefully, this past week my therapist taught me a good exercise to help me work on keeping my thoughts and emotions from becoming distorted so that they don't control my overall well-being. I've been trying to do a quick exercise when I feel the negative emotions taking over too deeply. But that doesn't mean I didn't let myself have a cry first. It helped. But I need some extra self-care to help charge my emotional and mental batteries right now. And the roller coaster will even out and start eventually climbing again.
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