Overwhelm

Hello, I’ve noticed that I’ve been feeling overwhelmed recently. This year was really exhausting for many different reasons. Yesterday, it all culminated and I just felt angry and sad and I cried the whole evening. I think one trigger was that I still haven’t fully processed my time as a PhD student. I officially finished my PhD project a few weeks ago. My time as a PhD student was very tough and yesterday I heard how current PhD students talk about their time as a PhD student. Their experience is so different from my experience and I wish I would have had another experience as well. I’m happy for them but it just made me angry because I feel like I endured too much. And then I also thought about other injustices … I know that I have kind people in my life who support me and that I need to focus my energy on these people. But at the moment I often feel like people take advantage of me, only tell me about their problems etc. Maybe they don’t even have bad intentions, I think some of them just think I don’t need help. I don’t really know where I’m going with this, but I needed to write this down. I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you!

 

Answer:

 

I wonder what allowing yourself to have a low moment where things feel hard, and you send love to all the places within you that feel hurt, angry, or sad would be like for you? What would that love feel like? What would it say to these parts of you that are taking up space right now? What would it have to offer?

Love is always available to you – even the sad and angry parts. Let’s start there. What do you notice happens when you take this approach to yourself?