{"id":9171,"date":"2023-05-08T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/getting-started\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:19:51","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Someone recently shared a photo with a book that I was intrigued by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love writing and I\u2019m tired of feeling burnt out. This book \u201cJournal Therapy for Overcoming Burnout<\/a>\u201d hits both of those issues and so I went onto Amazon and purchased it. I opened it up, sighed and put it on my bedside table; where I\u2019ve looked at it every day for almost 2 weeks but done nothing with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why would I be needing a burnout journal? Isn\u2019t everyone kind of a little stressed? It\u2019s been a hell of a past couple of years with the pandemic , no? When you add in all the previous life adventures that we\u2019ve been through, it\u2019s a wonder I haven\u2019t crashed and burned long before now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, honestly, I did <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact last summer, I crashed and burned in the most spectacular way. By spectacular, I mean devastating. I kept going trying to \u201ctake care\u201d of everything and everyone except myself, until I couldn\u2019t any longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been a tough year, as I navigate the fallout from the crash and attempt to \u201cdo life\u201d in a way that is honouring to both me and those I love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to be the very best version of me that I can be. I believe that I am kind and considerate, compassionate, caring, understanding, respectful, loving, encouraging and many other wonderful descriptive words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My own childhood traumas and triggers have me doubting whether anyone else sees me the way I do and if for some reason they don\u2019t see the good in me, am I delusional? Am I actually a bad person? I can\u2019t fathom that and yet, those little parts of me seek approval and can\u2019t quite believe that they are good enough to be loved and accepted. It sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes\u2026..most of the time, I want to dive head first into pursuit of emotional healing and other times the insecure parts of me feel overwhelmed and fearful that there is just going to be more pain and hurt. I feel like I\u2019ve experienced at least \u201ca world of hurt\u201d and probably deserve a short break from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think that\u2019s how life works though and I\u2019m more than willing to put in the work necessary because I want my best life and I\u2019m responsible for creating it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, I sat down for 5 minutes this morning. Read through day 1 and wrote for 3 minutes. It wasn\u2019t nearly as hard or difficult as I had made it out to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, we just need to get started. Even if we do it scared. Especially when we know we will benefit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there something you\u2019ve been putting off that you know will benefit you? Is there a small first step that you can take? Sometimes, I find that \u201cputting it out there\u201d helps to hold you accountable or gives you that \u201ckick in the butt\u201d to get going. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone recently shared a photo with a book that I was intrigued by. I love writing and I\u2019m tired of feeling burnt out. This book \u201cJournal Therapy for Overcoming Burnout\u201d hits both of those issues and so I went onto Amazon and purchased it. I opened it up, sighed and put it on my bedside … Continue reading “Getting Started”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,33,5,16,63,73],"tags":[203,217,205,209,206,211,182,214,216,208,215,213,210,207,212],"class_list":["post-9171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety","category-deep-thoughts","category-life","category-me","category-mental-health","category-writing","tag-anxiety","tag-boundaries","tag-burnout","tag-childhood-trauma","tag-journaling","tag-love-yourself","tag-mental-health","tag-my-best-life","tag-personal-growth","tag-procrastination","tag-self-care","tag-therapy","tag-triggers","tag-writing","tag-you-are-worthy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}