This week, I had a session with a client, and we spoke about the high stress levels and exhaustion she was experiencing at her new job.
I shared with her how I recently got really angry at something. I was cleaning my dishes and somehow spilled water over my clothes. I got so angry at myself about this and couldn't believe I spilled dirty water over my favorite yoga pants.
I took some deep breaths and realized: I haven't felt this way in a very long time.
Like, a very very long time. So long that I couldn't remember when it was.
When anger becomes a rare feeling
Such tantrums used to be „normal“. I remembered that, until a few years ago, the feeling of losing control over my emotions and getting angry (mostly silently on the inside!) used to be a feeling that I experienced several times a week - if not daily.
The line of 10 impatient and stressed-out customers around 6pm in the Apple store wanting technical solutions from me right now...
The 3 employees who needed me to speak to unhappy customers at the same time...
The interruptions every five minutes when I really needed to concentrate on something...
Being easily irritable (because I was literally only working, eating, and sleeping) also rippled out into other areas of my life. I was often angry at home. A very un-grateful daughter at times. A friend that often cancelled last-minute.
I was also not in my best physical shape, had trouble falling asleep, because of the racing thoughts, and often ate at takeouts.
In that moment of spilling water over myself, I realized how far I have come. And my client was visibly surprised that it was such a rare thing for me to feel this way.
I explained to her that this was the long-term result of daily self-care, meditation, gratitude, and living a low-stress to no-stress lifestyle that I fully created for myself. And anything I can do, you so can, too!
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