This I find is one of the very most difficult parts of my journey with chronic illness… this week alone even though I was struggling with a chronic cough with shortness of breath and severe weakness leaving me barely able to get myself safely around my house, I also had to deal with our business credit card being compromised… attorney stuff, a lost package in the mail, a relationship issue, on top of trying to log as many hours into work as possible to try to keep from getting too far behind schedule!
I cried every day, felt very near my limits… but with a chronic illness like mine that has such dramatic ups and downs, there just is simply no way around it… I choose to live the most productive and enriched life possible, and for most of my better days it is all much more manageable, but I still get severe alt ill at least once per month and then it is all just a stressful AF giant shit-show!
The best way I have learned through the years to manage is I constantly scan my body for stress and do the best I can to release tension when I notice it… I also take LOTS of short breaks throughout the day… and I do this thing where I focus on whatever problem I am currently dealing with in the momement and I picture it as a delicate butterfly in my hand and I remind myself to hold onto it very gently… because ultimately MOST problems in life feel much larger in the moment than they truly are.
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