How are you doing and feeling? The emotions of all are on a rise. With the news, local issues, family lives and more make sure that you check in with yourself. There is no need to be performative. So many are leaning on social influencers to make a stand that honestly I want you to do your research and not simply throw information out there. There is real pain, genocide, and lives being lost.
Being Informed vs Spewing Messaging
As a political science major who studied international law and conflict I caution anyone to not just go by any form of propaganda. I always encourage readers of this blog to research before you post. The other day on TikTok I watched someone almost burn their own platform with misinformation. It’s not only worth the misinformation but it’s harmful. There are real lives that are being lost. This isn’t a time to try to build a rapport over things you don’t know, repeat things you heard, or not vet your sources. Please do better not just to “protect” a brand but because are you really considering the humanity lost or simply looking to get more likes?
Wednesday Check-In
Someone slide into my DM to tell me that they were struggling and felt like others around them were flourishing. This is a very normal feeling. Although as always I will never indulge what they went through let me use this as a time to remind others that life is happening all around us. Sometimes we have moments where you feel like you are hitting things out the park. There are also those times when life feels stagnant. I shared with her that I too go through bouts of depression when I feel like life has forgotten about me. It is an uncomfortable feeling. What she is feeling is happening to others around us who are suffering in silence.
In order to not appear that they are struggling they will still post as normal and look like active participants. However, inside the cry for better is loud and they feel drowned in it. If this is you, like the person who slide in my DMs I pray that you are able to see the good. In addition that good would reveal itself to you. I send love to every person in their own personal pain right now. Please do not give up.
Here are some things I do when I feel deep in despair:
- Make a reality check list. This is a list of all of the ways that I am doing well. Sometimes seeing it written is helpful to change the mindset.
- Get some rest-if you are constantly on go and not resting sometimes your emotions pull on you simply from pure exhaustion
- Make sure to keep my eating habits strong. The desire to deny my body what I need is real
- Surround myself around good people. The more you hang around those who drain you of the joy you are already struggling to focus on the more detrimental
- Journal with prompts that focus more on the things of my past that tend to cloud my judgment in the present. For an example, focusing on one failure doesn’t mean that I was a failure incapable of success and successful ventures
Emotional Scars
We all have emotional scarring. Those scars do not need to take on a life of their own. How does that happen? when we look at a scar it is a core memory of something done. When I was younger I hit my hand on my grandparents door since a cousin locked me out. That scar is on my hand is a reminder of what happened not that I can’t use my same hands to build greatness or walk in my greatness. Some scars and wounds are deep. This past week there was an event that represent a deep wound but it didn’t get me down like it had in the past because I took control on allowing it to have full dominion on my emotions. Know that you will have moments when looking at a scar makes it all feel like it happened today. I understand that. Let the scar be a testament of where you are now.
Blogs you May have Missed-Wednesday Blog Drops
I’m in my flow lately. If you have been here for awhile you know that means I am on a 2 week or more stretch of new blogging content. That is no easy task since I will be celebrating 9 years this November. However I love what I do. Thank you for your continued support.
Friday Check-In: October 13, 2023
Monday Motivation: 4th Quarter
That is all for this midweek check in. Take care of you. Fight the urge to repeat misinformation. Research and vet all of your sources. Also life is happening. If you are not okay right now you don’t need to be performative for others around you. I want real healing in your world. Your emotions are a part of your life they don’t have to be your whole life. Take care to surround yourself with amazing people. Happy Wednesday as you thrive.
