What To Do With The Buzzing & Stinging Thoughts

It can be hard to sit and settle. Take this time to feel your connection to the earth and your breath. Inhale. Exhale. Welcome to a Hit of Hope, and fair warning, this one’s salty. There are a few things that can drive me from calm to insane in 2.3 seconds flat. My children will tell you the first thing is traffic. Any Zen I might have accumulated gets tossed out the window as I grip the steering wheel and mutter about the nutters who are sharing the road with me. Inhale. Exhale.

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Great advice Betsy. No deer flies here in southern Saskatchewan, but lots of bothering stress and bullshit..
Going now for my daily walk and will super try to out run/over come the worries I'm having..
As always, big thanks..

This made me smile because of the blue Solo cup. I am glad we only have lake flies that hit the windshield and die. You just keep those horse flies in MN.🤪🤪

Loved. Thanks for the blue visual that is now permanently burned into my brain 😂

"Deer flies are like thoughts."
That did it. That reminded me that all my anxieties, all my stress, all my near-panic...

...are just thoughts. Borrowing trouble again.
Life loves me. It has proven this to me over and over so many times you'd think I'd be past needing reminders every damn time a curve ball blows past my bat. And you'd be wrong.
This, too, shall pass. The perfect solution will present itself to e at the perfect moment.
Detach. Be. Here. NOW.
Fuck the deer flies.

Thank you again, Betsy. So much.

Gonna just take a moment here to be grateful that West River South Dakota doesn't have many deer flies! 😂 More seriously, I've found that getting creative is the best way to avoid the mental deer flies. Literally creative. I can't think of much else when I'm assembling a garment or taking photographs or drawing something, badly. It's good for what ails me. And no matter how well or badly the venture goes, I always feel better afterwards.