Are you sick and tired, yet?
How to face your fears and improve your well-being
What pushes you to make a change? Not just any change, but the kind you know will improve your life.
It’s the kind of change that scares you awake at 3:00 a.m.
Body drenched in sweat and shivering though it’s not cold, your eyes pop open. Something’s got a grip on your chest, but you can’t figure out what it is. Your heart races.
You spend the next hour or maybe longer battling a demon you can’t see, but that’s as real to you as the bed you’re in and the blankets covering your body.
At 3:00 a.m. when it’s just you and your thoughts, what’s happening? What are you telling yourself?
Are you chastising yourself for the bender the night before? Are you replaying a conversation that went south? Is your personal demon drudging up every instance that you screwed up that day?
The truth is a lot of us deal with this angry demon. It’s that voice constantly attacking you, but that you’ve become skilled at ignoring in daylight hours — for the most part.
But at 3:00 a.m. your defenses are down. Maybe it’s because you drank, smoked, or ate too much. Or maybe it’s because you opted for whatever your particular poison is.
