How did you show up for yourself today?
Today, nurtured three areas of myself! I nurtured my mental health, my nervous system and through that my physical self, and I nurtured my own self worth by the things I did today. 1. I advocated for myself with a psychiatrist. I clearly and respectfully expressed boundaries around certain medication changes she had in mind, explained my reasoning and medical history around many similar approaches from other well meaning psychiatrists in the past, then agreed to try her way if she offered a strict fail-safes in case of anything going wrong. in the end, she heard me out and we were able to get clarity on all the different layers of my mental and physical needs and I was able to get back onto my adderal without adding other medication that we ultimately both agreed would probably be detrimental to my mental health moving forward. 2. Through doing that, i strengthened my view of my own abilities and self worth as well as my value as a coach and healer. Tonight I am writing to you with a calm + clear mind, and a relaxed and grounded body while catching up on the things that matter to me but which I havent been able to focus on either from brain chatter or physical inability and stregnth to be myself despite utilizing all of the other tools and resources I teach and advocate for. 3. I am now sitting here, in contentment with a delicious cup of tea that I blended to counteract the coldness I will be experiencing over these next few days both from the vaso-dialating effects of my adderal and the cold weather outside the walls of my house. Now, my body is calm and relaxed, not figiting or feeling on edge, anxious, and burn out. One take away I want to share from all of this is: Yes, I am an herbalist and I yes do lean heavily into plant medicine before any modern medical intervention. However, I also will advocate every day of my life, that the old ways and modern science are to be treated as friends that each have their own stregnths and relevant skillsets rather than beings to be treated as opposing forces.