My blog is a part of how I deal with my anxiety and I have been totally slacking lately! (Not using one of my tools is not a smart idea!!! Lol The result being my eczema is back!!! LOL I look like a little kid!)
In my family growing up and in my family with my kids we did not express love like we should.... Everyone was just supposed to know that they were loved. I think my parents did a better job at letting us know they loved us than Alan and I did with our kids while growing up. That is the past and there is nothing I can do about it. Everyday is a new beginning! I love that! for the past couple of decades I have been trying to change this behavior and tell my kids that I love them and hugging them etc!!! Sometimes I think I have changed the dysfunctional way of showing love that I have had and then a few days ago I realized that maybe they don't understand my new way of communication AND don't know that this is how I am trying to show my love. I decided that if my kids don't know that these and other "crazy" things I do (like giving emergency kits for christmas!) are my way of showing them I love them they may not know that I do.... Hmmmm... So... this year as I am buying Christmas gifts (that go into the emergency kits.... LOL) I am going to let them know that this is one of my "crazy" ways that I am trying to show them I love them. I am learning that my dysfunction is a normal dysfunction for women my age!!!! LOL I heard a comedian talking about his wife and her emergency kits!!! On one of the Shark Tank episodes they were talking about women's obsession with buying emergency supplies!!! If any of my children are reading this... I worry about you because I love you and feeling safe is so important to me!! I am going to keep embracing this way of showing love and just ask that you understand I am not "crazy"... I am showing you love!!! I need to make a t-shirt for this in my collection of t-shirt therapy!!!! How does my mom show love and then a picture of an emergency kit??? I will think of something!!! The other way I have started showing my kids I love them is by giving them some t-shirts for t-shirt therapy!!!! We all need to have laughter!!! T-shirt therapy is an awesome way to get it!!! (Love you guys!!! Now you all know what you are getting for Christmas!!! LOL)
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I started going to my therapist again and we discussed what we are going to be working on... After I came home and thought about the things we had discussed and if there was anything that I needed to add to the list I became distracted with T-Shirt therapy... I found the perfect T-Shirt for my goals!!! Today is my 2nd son's birthday and he is 36 years old!!! How did he become older than me?!?!? LOL Actually, I claim my age!!! I am 57 years old and these are hard won years!!! This of course brings me to another T-Shirt Therapy... (You think I am Crazy, You should see the rest of my FAMILY!) And speaking of T-Shirt Therapy... My daughter in law, Dawn is coming over today to help me a little with some T-Shirt Therapy! It takes a village of Therapy to get us all through this rollercoaster ride called life!!! ;) |
I am Ally. I am the center of my universe and I can determine whether to be a victim, survivor or thriver. At one time or another I have been all of the above... I am choosing to thrive!
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