Emotional skills for rest, relaxation and SLEEP!

9.09am?! My brain is so different now!

I’m upstairs, still hiding away after being given a lye in…I think it may have something to do with the fact that my husband was seriously grumpy last night 😉 and we’ve got the first quiet weekend day for so long so it’ll be what my Sophie calls a ‘floppy’ day.

Now that I don’t react in ways that don’t serve me (that’s for another post), it’s so much easier to overcome challenges quickly and come back to supporting each other.

Anyway, I woke up at the usual time our kids come in (6ish). Previously, when I wasn’t supporting myself emotionally, my brain would have saved all its unprocessed emotions for my dreams and once awake, I’d be alert, thoughts racing, usually to a place of anxiety.

These days, I get quiet. Mental quiet and supportive emotions when I need to rest. Today, I woke, heard Patrick get up with the kids and then my brain let me go back to sleep! Next thing…9.09! 🤩 Now I’ve taught my brain to consistently deliver me the feelings of safety, adequacy and worth, this ripples out in SO many ways.

This’ll be so useful next week! I’m learning a talk that I’m so privileged to be giving a local organisation wanting to master emotional skills, so having a rested brain will allow me to support them in my best possible way.

One of my first ever clients used my emotional skills to transform 40 years of his constantly challenged sleep (and use of medication), to instead sleeping sustainably well. He’s still doing that now, his brain is now transformed like mine is.

Thinking of you this weekend, I hope you can squeeze in some rest too when you need it, whatever that looks like for you ❤️

Better head downstairs and help with some childcare now 😉 sounds like there’s a board game underway for me to join…🥰