Dear Tiffany,
I love your creativity and resilience. I love that when you are talking about how a self-care technique can be helpful, you are almost always speaking from experience.
And I also like that even though you still talk about yourself like you’re an endless disaster of anxiety and depression and minimal coping, actually, it’s not true anymore.
Things are still tough, yes, but you very rarely spin out into a panic attack these days – you’ve got the self-care triage down to a science.
You’re still overwhelmed and you’re still anxious a lot of the time, but you are rarely debilitated by it. And it’s even more rare for you to be completely at a loss when it comes to responding to your anxious and sad self.
You don’t have all the answers, but you have the right questions.
I think that’s cool.
The stories you tell yourself, and about yourself, haven’t quite caught up to this new reality and that’s okay. They will. You have those skills.
Love,
Me