Anxiety Waves & Inner Child Healing
How is your heart these days? tbh, my chest has been full of anxiety. I've been riding the waves of grief as my last grandparent passed away this month. At the same time, we welcomed in a new baby on my partner's side of the family. Of course, on top of it all are all of the worldly stresses we're dealing with right now like covid.
So I'm over here riding the waves.
Healthy coping skills help. I've been redefining what rest means for myself for a while. And I'm catching glimpses of things that are starting to feel good! I've needed some huge mental rest lately, so I've been going hard with roller skating and playing tennis. Those two activities are SO FUN and also restful for my mind because while I'm doing them, I'm not thinking about anything else. And my body is moving... it's just a great time overall.
Speaking of healthy coping skills and physical movement, I combined all of that in my latest youtube video. This is one of my favorite exercises to tune into my inner child (another way of tuning into my body and what I need in the moment) plus get a little physical exercise at the same time. I hope you can garner some useful tips from it. (Also, if you get motion sickness, maybe don't watch the video and just listen to the audio instead... I'm not the best camera-person yet 😂).
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🎧📺 ALOK: The Urgent Need for Compassion | The Man Enough Podcast
This podcast episode blew my heart wide-open. I'd suggest to every [cisgender] person to listen to it. There was so much knowledge dropped about gender, how trans & non-binary liberation is actually the liberation for us all and benefits EVERYONE, and done through such a lens of compassion & love. Not to mention, Alok's words are pure art to listen to. Please listen to this and pass it along.
[cisgender: person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth. - Merriam-Webster]
