How to learn to let it be okay
You look like a new person- hi there! Thanks for reading. This site is where I vent about having an invisible disability as well as cancer. Please consider sharing this post because it’s really helpful in my shift to a writing career. Welcome back! Please tell share this post or consider buying me a cup of coffee because it will help me continue to pay bills while I shift to a part time writing career.What gibberish is this? I recall thinking. One of those impractical, implausible Zen monk deals that make me barf in my mouth? FOH. As a grown up, I can admit when I’m wrong. This thing about letting it be okay isn’t the typical made-up nonsense self-help wannabes spout. Once mastered, this is an important life skill. One I wish I had learned before I actually needed to use it. It’s all about manipulating that mean soundtrack of self-talk into the shut-up position. Momentarily I’ll give you the exercise that dramatically changed my inner monologue in a week. For now, as I am terribly vain- but also judge myself by how much I tried to help people each day? Let me share a little of my spoonie-transition story. Hopefully this real life account helps you or someone you know. I wasn’t born chronically ill. At least not in the way that it interfered with my daily life. I’ve been both asthmatic and anemic since birth. But I grew out of the asthma for a while as a
