If you’re where I was 4 years ago, you’re overwhelmed and feeling depressed and lost. You wake up in the morning staring down the barrel of a another day full of commitments, pressure and chances to let yourself down.
If you’re where I was 2 years ago, your life is ok. On a good day, you’d say your life is good. But there aren’t that many good days. You get stressed easily, you’re irritated by your kids even though they’re ‘just being kids’, and you desperately wish you could become the parent you thought you’d be. And you’re tired. So tired.
Four years ago, I didn’t talk about how I felt. I was too ashamed. I had just adopted my children and life was meant to be complete. I couldn’t understand how I could “have everything” and feel so desperately low.
When I started making changes and things began to improve, I started talking to people about how I felt. When I talked about feeling stressed, irritated and a bit ‘meh’, most people talked about feeling the same and we’d console ourselves that it was “just life”.
It isn’t just life.
It is our habits.