Article 6AMV9 I’ve just had a personal reminder how positive events can cause stress too. Thinking ‘I shouldn’t feel this way’ never helps | Ahona Guha

I’ve just had a personal reminder how positive events can cause stress too. Thinking ‘I shouldn’t feel this way’ never helps | Ahona Guha

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Ahona Guha
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I (re)learned the value of caring for myself kindly and compassionately, whether for distress or eustress, just as I so often do for others

It's 2am and my mind slowly blinks into consciousness. It's been happening a lot lately, this early hours waking. I fought against it initially, lying still, closing my eyes, hoping that I would slide back into oblivion and that this was just a one-off.

Sometimes this works and I catch a thread of a thought which wisps into a dream. For the past few weeks it hasn't, and I've found myself getting out of bed to read for a few hours before I either fall back asleep (yay, weekends) or get to work (boo, weekdays).

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