I’m still really struggling with the start of the school year, and I’m not pleased with the ways I’m managing the overwhelm. I need to develop new coping mechanisms for when I’m very stressed out, because I don’t feel like my current methods are effective, or sustainable.
This weekend a friend prompted us to take a hike with our girls, instead of having a play date at her house. We ended up walking to a beach I’ve never been to. It was a beautiful day (there haven’t been many of them in the city this summer), and the views were breath taking. It was so nice to remember that this is where I live, and maybe it’s even worth all the bullshit.
I think I need to add walks on the beach to my list of coping mechanisms. It is totally doable, because this is where I live.
It is beautiful and it is good to go and see and be in the natural beauty.
No idea what would help you cope with realities of money, jobs, children, children’s schools… but do believe you are under too many pressures in addition to the broader generic pressures and stresses of today. The generic questions to such stress seem to be: what can you delegate/how can you increase child care assistance/what can you ignore doing at work/what can you eliminate at home(possessions, chores), but I am not certain that gets to the root of problems and changes things or just is borrowing from Peter to pay Paul when Peter will also need repayment…..
I am out of most of your trenches and battlefields (jobs, young children, spouses) ……but my daily/moment-to-moment stress levels are still skyhigh and I find my self spiraling in on topics that are clearly scapegoats for generic stress looking for a place to be expressed. It is scary.
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Ah, what I would give to be able to walk on the beach on a weekend! (I live in the Arizona desert and only get to see the ocean *maybe* once a year.) There’s something about it that’s so restorative.
I hope you feel more settled soon.
Sameish. We don’t go to the beach nearly as often as we should. We take it for granted.
There is about a two month period in the summer where it stays light long enough for me to ride my bike along the coast after the kids go to bed. It’s wonderful. Alas, it has already ended.