Oh my god it’s not just me! I needed to read this, for no other reason but to give myself a break. I’m not losing my mind, I am overwhelmed and exhausted. Thank you for reframing this for me.
Glad it was useful. I thought it was just me until people at work who don't usually share that personally were saying how hard it was. That made me realize how hard it really was, for not just me.
Since March 2020 I've been participating in a weekly online writing group that gets together on Saturdays to write to prompts for an hour. It is, for all intents and purposes, the only consistent writing I've been doing; and it's a lifeline. One of the recent prompts was, "How are you doing, really?" And it just broke me. It feels like we've all been holding our shit together through sheer will power for so long ... the idea of someone asking me to get real about how I'm *really* doing was like a punch to the gut. You are definitely not alone. We're all swimming against the tide right now, for a million different reasons. xo
Oh my god it’s not just me! I needed to read this, for no other reason but to give myself a break. I’m not losing my mind, I am overwhelmed and exhausted. Thank you for reframing this for me.
Glad it was useful. I thought it was just me until people at work who don't usually share that personally were saying how hard it was. That made me realize how hard it really was, for not just me.
Since March 2020 I've been participating in a weekly online writing group that gets together on Saturdays to write to prompts for an hour. It is, for all intents and purposes, the only consistent writing I've been doing; and it's a lifeline. One of the recent prompts was, "How are you doing, really?" And it just broke me. It feels like we've all been holding our shit together through sheer will power for so long ... the idea of someone asking me to get real about how I'm *really* doing was like a punch to the gut. You are definitely not alone. We're all swimming against the tide right now, for a million different reasons. xo