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Hey, hi. Quick reminder that you're allowed to be not alright and you're not obligated to stare at the election or spend all your time not staring at it ~being calm~
There's a lot of really excellent advice going around about how to care for yourself and stay centered in these next few days.
That's so important. You deserve care, and it's wise to make decisions and move from a centered, grounded place.
And.
That's so important. You deserve care, and it's wise to make decisions and move from a centered, grounded place.
And.
I'm here to give you permission to freak out. To not be ok. To let yourself feel the thing that is happening, just for a while.
Go ahead. Set your phone down, walk away from the computer, and let yourself lay down on the floor and cry, or scream into a pillow, or punch a designated punching item, or some other thing that lets you get into your grief, your fear, your rage. Let it out.
We get really focused on the doom half of "doomscrolling" and reasonably so, but the scrolling half comes with a certain amount of numbness. Of going and going and not really letting anything have time to sink in or be fully felt.
As important as it is to take breaks to feel something else, it's important to take breaks to *actually feel* what the doom half is saying.
Cry, scream, rage, feel that shit. You're not responsible for ~being calm~ at all moments, you're not bad if you get worked up.
Cry, scream, rage, feel that shit. You're not responsible for ~being calm~ at all moments, you're not bad if you get worked up.
Your harder emotions deserve space just like your joy and love deserve space.
Probably don't stay there. Get up off the floor when you're done, drink water, have a snack, snuggle a cat or a person or a stuffed animal, have a phone call with a friend. Do all that good centering stuff too.
But remember that all of your feelings are valuable information and suppression of the "bad" ones is generally a recipe for them showing up in a lot of weird other places in your life.
Feel the stuff, loves. It's ok to feel
