Do you ever have a day where you need to get something of your chest, but you’re not 100% sure what it is that you need to get off your chest?
That’s me today. I have tried starting this post 3 times today and each time I write the first word, then delete it. Then focus on something else and come back and do it all over again.
So this post is about that. It’s about needing a brain break, needing to vent, needing to laugh and/or cry, needing to do all of those things and none of them.
I shut down everything for almost a month. I needed to stop. But now, as is my usual way, I am starting to feel better again, and I feel the need restart everything in my life all at once. Which is a terrible idea, and will just continue this insane cycle, where I do too much and then cannot cope and burn everything down.
I don’t know what I need in this moment, and I guess that’s ok.
How about you? Have you been through a cycle in the recent past, the long past, or whenever? What do you do to cope? What do you do for balance?
Originally intended to simply focus on book reviews, over time, KaliDesautelsReads has morphed into its own entity.
I write about issues that are near to my heart, be they political, feminist, motherhood, mental health, or, as the title holds, books.
A thirty-something Canadian woman in my mid-thirties, I have been "super married" to my high school sweetheart since 2006, and together we have two crazy, clever, kind, hilarious, wonderful kids.
My first book - How Not To Blog: Finding Myself, One Post at a Time is available on Amazon (in eBook formats for you clever tech readers, and paperback for those of us who love that new book smell!)
I have tried a podcast - it's still on Apple and Google Podcasts - but writing is where my heart is.
My life changed dramatically when my husband was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer in 2018, and I am now a writer for a leading Canadian Cancer Non-Profit.
I am lucky enough to have a family that loves me and pushes me to be my best, even if it is outside of my cushiony comfort zone. I have a village of friends that nourish me, mentally, and spiritually.
Welcome to my thoughts. Sit down. Stay a while. Enjoy a cup of coffee!
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