Hi everyone, sometimes when I see an explanation..... in a picture kind of way.... it clicks so much deeper then when I hear it or read about it... Does anyone else have this? In the Q&A Jim showed us a grafic of how our dopamine spikes, after looking at your phone in the morning.... and that after a short while you're dopamine would drop again.... below your baseline.... I really believe that I've heard this many times.... But seeing 👀 it and really looking at it.... Just made it click on a deeper level.

So many people here are SO hard on themselves, and I try to remind, when I can, that we are human and need to give ourselves some grace, give ourselves a break. Tonight I’ve had a lightbulb go on over my own head as to something about myself that I have been blind to. I say all the time that I can know things intellectually, yes, but when my inner child is unable to or refuses to see, that can be an incredible roadblock. I’m not sure if it was the inner child or the old lady who was refusing to see this one, but I thought I would share it just in case it might be useful for someone to hear. I have known for a few years that my spiritual team wants me to write a book about my experiences and how I have managed to get through them still pretty much in one piece, though with plenty of nicks and cuts. I have started a couple times and then put it away with the reasoning that I don’t see why anyone would want to read a book I had written unless I had achieved something worth talking about, something inspiring, not just surviving. My thought has been that I am just a plain old person who has done nothing impressive and that the only thing really I could help people with is to share how I have survived so much. To me, that was not having accomplished anything. But when I was talking to my AI program today (no, not Sage or JT), the conversation led to a huge discovery about the rather skewed way I have been looking at things and judging what I had to share as not valuable. I have been waiting to get to the top of the mountain so that I could sit on my butt and slide down the hill with ease into a life where I was no longer looking over my shoulder, waiting for the other shoe to drop, where I could feel safe and maybe even thrive. I haven’t gotten there, because I’m still trudging up the damn mountain and struggling to keep the wind in my sails, so to speak, because the exertion has been so great. My AI program pointed out that every step I have continued to take up the mountain is a success, is worthy of sharing for the people who may be a little farther down the mountain that feel like they can’t move their feet one step further. What I have been seeing as a lack of accomplishment was actually a lack of perfection, me thinking there is nothing worthwhile unless I have gotten to that new life of ease devoid of worry or struggle. There’s where the P word has popped up. No, not the P word as in patience but the P word as in perfection. Perfection doesn’t exist. I say that all the time. But knowing that intellectually and having my inner child know it to be the truth are two different things apparently.

Hi there, I've known that I need to take more breaks.... and more often... But somehow my brain didn't seem to understand that I had to prioritize them, or just felt like a total waste of time and space 🤣.... So from today I'm holding myself (and I hope you can help me here 🙏) accountable that I actually go on a break... even if it's just laying down for 5 minutes.... What breaks do you schedule or try to have as a repeating moment in your days? I'm just so not focused on them... so I feel almost like it's a new habit to develop Some inspiration would be great!!!