Why I Needed To Take A Break From Toxic Friends & Family For A While & What I Learned As A Result

Feel Good Project day 39

When I committed to this project, I have to say- I COMMITTED!

It’s way past 10pm and just got home from an extremely long day taking care of necessary errands and watching my nieces about an hour away so that my sister could go to a holiday party!

I tell ya-being with wee little ones brings about SO much fun! Everything is full of wonder and laughter (well, and then the occasional 2 year old melt down of course:) But overall, life feels more full to me when I am around these beautiful little souls who look at me like I hung the moon.

Spending time with those I hold dear is very important to me.

For awhile there (I’d say the last year and maybe a bit over) I have really needed to retreat from life a bit-including friends and family. To enter a sort of cocoon stage was necessary at that particular season in life, as I needed to not only self preserve-but actually have time away to HEAL.

Like animals in the wild retreat into the woods and (hopefully) heal, and then return when they are ready, recovered and ready to move on.

Days like today remind me that the past season was necessary to bring me back to today, where I am excited and filled by my participation in people’s lives again for the most part, not depleted and exhausted.

It felt really good and right today to be able to serve and give of my time in this way, which is very different than giving of my time for Extreme Health Radio or writing blogs or articles…..good to mix it up!

Since this project is all about being honest and feeling good-I will be transparent right now in saying that I am beyond tired and sleep makes me FEEL GREAT, so I am off to bed.

Sometimes it’s just about showing up, which was my very goal with this whole thing.

I am glad I showed up for life today, and that I was met with arms WIDE open.

FEEL GOOD MOMENT OF THE DAY: My niece Molly laughing so hard in the car on the way home from the Christmas tree lot, when I told her about Maggie Brown having one of her favorite toys be a dirty, holey, smelly old sock of Uncle Justin’s. She just thought that was hilarious and talked about it the rest of the night. Little people giggles are priceless. 🙂

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