The glib advice, if you’re not happy with something in your life, is to change it – but what if there’s nothing in your life that you’re unhappy with but you’re still, you know, unhappy? I haven’t been feeling my best for… a good six months now, really, since we swapped my medication around and then back again (and then began steadily increasing it, in an attempt to get me back on an even keel again). I’m struggling to find creative motivation, preferring the company of other people’s words to my own (which would be fine if I didn’t still have deadlines). I’m tired, a lot, but finding sleep a struggle because my anxiety peaks at night. I’ve started seeing a life coach. It’s only a semi-formal thing in that she’s recently set up a business and was looking for people to practice on. I’m no stranger to self-reflection, but things said out loud to somebody else come across very differently to when they’re written down on paper. Sharon has helped me actually carve out time to tend to my house and go to the gym, rather than promising myself those things are in my future. Last week I felt […]
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