Mental Health & Mid-Year Reading Check-In
There’s like nothing like starting the year with so many intentions, but getting derailed because of LIFE. At the start of the year, we were making big moves, I had a newborn, we were moving to a new country, we had to make sure all of our ducks were in a row for this big move. Things were stressful and I felt like I had a grip on everything, I was just worried about the 9 hour flight with a newborn, toddler and 5 year old. AND our dog that had to be in cargo during our flight.
Once we arrived, we hit the ground running and tried to settle in our temporary housing as much as possible. It was long until we go on offer on what housing we wanted and there we go, the moving-in process began. We were just so busy, transitioning into a new normal, figuring out my routine with solo parenting. And boom, postpartum depression.
Thankfully, I recognized it early, but it was tough. I was just so sad all the time, I felt insecure with myself and would cry everyday for a month. Mine was fairly mild and I wanted to seek out therapy, but the resources were seriously lacking here. It was a huge turn around, when it took me days to finally build myself up to talk about it with my husband. Honestly, we didn’t know how to navigate it, but I started journaling, which helped me out a lot. I just had a ton on my mind and needed somewhere to put it all. Thankfully, things turned around fairly quickly after that, but it’s an experience I never want to go through again.
Just a reminder to be kind to yourselves, do what you need to take of yourself. And please reach out to someone if you need to.
Mid-Year Reading Check-In
Reading, reading, reading.
It has been a lackluster of a year so far for reading. Naturally, my reading went by the wayside for a couple months and it’s finally picking up again. I’m back to reading more and it has been great. I’ve been knocking off quite a bit from my TBR and now putting all the intentions into my physical copies…the slowest format for me to read from.
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen all my stats, but here we go, click on the picture to make them larger.
I’ll try to chime in more on here, how’s your mid-year reading going?
I need to get back into Journaling. It would be good for me. With my constant concussions, my reading hasn’t exactly gone as I planned. I started out the year ahead but then plummeted in February. I had so much I wanted to do this month but now that I’m here I don’t want to do any of it. Moody reader look out!