Meditate. Mindfulness meditation has a wonderfully calming effect during times of stress. If you don’t have time for a full practice, try taking a few deep breaths instead while you repeat your favourite positive affirmations. (Please listen to Alex to calm your inner self) Write in your journal. Your journal provides a safe and private space to explore your emotions in greater detail. Over time, your journal can also serve as a record that will help you better understand what triggers specific emotional responses. Break out a sketchbook. If you have a hard time expressing yourself in words, drawing or painting can be a new way to process your emotions. No artistic talent or formal training is necessary to benefit from creative self-expression. Pray. Let your spirituality-faith be a source of comfort. Prayer has regularly been shown to ease feelings of depression and anxiety. Sober Susan is not only aware of her emotions but also manages them a hundred times better and the Gaelic sense of an emotion being ‘on you’ gives it a temporary fleeting sense that makes it so much easier on the more emotional days. I wear joy and gratitude, happiness and sadness often in equal measure and yet, my inner beautiful peace is never disturbed because that ladies, is based on one sober promise daily. Once I don't drink, I am free as a freaking bird. Whatever your emotions are this morning I hope you join me in our sober dawn chorus of saying not today lady, not today. Lots of love Susan x
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