Early Morning Musings with Wendy caring for my mental health

The sun has not even begun to rise, I am tired, yet here I sit. Wondering, why does my brain do this? Why can I be so tired, yet with one roll over in bed, I am awake enough to have a thought pop in and here I am, awake?

It's not like I won't have time to dwell on these thoughts all day, why do they have to invade my sleep too?

I know all the tricks that are supposed to help me unpack all of this and then go back to bed and to sleep, but, what's the first thing I do? I make a coffee, because I am awake.... again, why do I do these things to myself? I need to take better care of my Mental Health.

It all comes down to one word HABIT...Such a small word, yet so hard to break. They say it takes 21 days to create a habit and another 21 days to break it. So why do I feel like I get on a hamster wheel sometimes? Running and running trying to catch up with myself.

My hope is this, that by coming here and writing all of this, my brain will finally be satisfied, and I will be able to sleep. This is much better than sitting here running through the rolodex of things that I can really do nothing about.

Do you struggle with keeping the invading thoughts out of your head? Have you overcome this habit? What do you do?

If you are like me and this happens to you sometimes, here are some tools that may help...

• Write things down, get them out of your head.

• Do not get up and drink coffee! Man, this is good, I need to try this!

• Pray

• Do stretches

• Breathe, slow, methodically in through the nose, out through the mouth

• Let it go, whatever it is, especially if it's out of your control, just let it go

  
  

Ok, now I think I may be ready to lay my head back down! I hope you all have a wonderful day!