Reconnecting With Yourself After Self-Abandonment
This weekend I’ve made the decision to shut my door and focus on “returning to myself” after a bout of feeling like
I’ve felt like a cog-in-a-wheel to my every day tasks. Waking up like a robot programmed to complete his hourly tasks. I know life can get busy, but it’s incredibly important we’re moving through it as often we can connected to who we are inside. To me, losing myself feels like disconnection. The disconnection from ones goals and from ones passion-hobbies until you feel dissatisfied, inauthentic, and ultimately helpless.
As helplessness is a key feature of depression, I’ve felt the brunt of feeling low and lost in my day-to-day. This then feeds my bad habits, which serve as short-term comforts rather than long-term fulfilments. This preoccupation with immediate reward as a stress-reliever then makes working on the things I care about, like writing, difficult to engage in.
Which is why I haven’t been able to write.
Losing yourself isn’t an overnight thing, you see. It happens over time, with consistent acts of self-abandonment. If work gets busy and you start to neglect your self-care, with time you’ll undoubtably lose yourself.
Some of us are more predispositioned to losing ourselves than others, too. If you work a job that isn’t aligned to…
