Whilst trying to find a good time to heal myself naturally of the stress that has affected my body so much, the last few months has seen a family bereavement, 2 further family members with major illness worries, a major redundancy situation coming right up (the third in five years!), and another 3 family members going through the major fallout of another divorce. So, not much to stress about then!!
Despite all of this, or maybe because of it, I am happily distracting myself with other pursuits to give light to the shade within which it's all too easy to wallow in sometimes. Not that it's not important to give time to grief and the sadness, but the happy times are what life's about and seeing the good things around me and being mindful enough to enjoy the moment is my current focus. I've been looking at photos which look like happy times but I can remember at the time being grumpy about something insignificant - what a waste. Life goes along too quickly not to enjoy as much as we can on the way.
So today I'm back at work after a fabulously distracting weekend with family, playing in my covers band The Uninvited on Friday night, seeing the Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro on Saturday night at Milton Keynes Bowl and chilling about on Sunday. As you can guess I'm a muso, and I find it a wonderful distraction from the other stresses in life. Sometimes when I'm happily distracting myself, I feel like I'm being some kind of slacker, not dealing with practical things that I should be or facing issues "head on" but it's the joys in life that can ultimately heal you. This is the life lesson that I keep reminding myself of whenever the negative emotions return. It's July and the sun is shining :)
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