Hey gurl, it is OK to not feel like yourself sometimes

I have been in a funk for a couple of months. And when I say couple I mean since November (maybe October) so let’s be honest that is more like a few than a couple.

I’ve been going through the motions, socializing when I felt obligated to go out, smiling and laughing when I felt like the situation warranted it but not really meaning it or enjoying it. I have felt unmotivated and stressed at work and I dreaded doing anything that involved being creative. I was feeling defeated, and I realized I needed to course correct before I let my train go too far down the wrong track. So, I made some adjustments:

I stopped doing things I didn’t want to do. (I said NO!)

I took time to acknowledge and be present in my feelings.

I started taking better care of my mind and body. For me this means going to therapy, meditating, sleeping more, exercising and balancing my diet.

I accepted the space that I was in and changed my way of thinking about it. Instead of beating myself up about everything I wasn’t or didn’t feel like doing, I celebrated the things I could and wanted to do.  

Taking these steps isn’t an immediate resolution, and it is DAILY work, but I am starting to feel like myself again. So much so that I booked what I will call a “Self Love/I am my own Valentine” shoot with DC photographer Erin Martin. I told her how I had been feeling and she helped resurrect the real me in these amazing photos. Fierce, Funny, Creative, Sexy, and delightfully Odd.