But after a wonderful chat with my friends and with my husband about it, I have decided to make the most of a less than wonderful situation and try to focus on being happy and staying busy and doing what I love.
Now that I have some of my normal food groups back in, I have been able to start baking again! Here comes all that weight back, WooHoo!! In the last 3 days I have cranked up the Christmas music and made: orange cranberry chex mix, whipped shortbread cookies (it made me think of you Dana), cherry almond biscotti (Kimberly's recipe) and fudge puddles ( thank you Kara!!). Baking things that made me think of all my wonderful girlfriends definately improved my mood.
I have also tried to stop negative thoughts from forming.... easier said than done. I find that if I don't verbalize or acknowledge them, this makes it a bit more managable. I know that God wants me to be a happy person and I am really trying to focus on the good and fun things in my life:)
What do you do to improve your mood?
- Kristin
I am so happy to read about you taking such an active approach to change your situation! Way to take the bull by the horns and attract positivity to your life. It will only snowball from here! Your amazing! :)
ReplyDelete-Dana
I actually had an entire class on this in school which I thought was interesting. They refered to it as "negative self talk". It was one of those topics that can have such an influence on your life and yet we rarely talk about it so I was surprised to actually learn about it in an acedemic setting. You are on the right track. Our teacher had as write down all of the situations/places that we tend to negative self talk (for example before writing an exam) and then beside each write out what it is that you say to yourself (for example "Im going to fail") and then write out what your going to say the next time you are faced with the same situation. Then when you find yourself saying negative things, you acknowledge it, actively stop it and then say something positive. I thought about this over a week and was amazed at the places/times I found myself negative self talking that I did not even realise and it really helps to actually say to yourself "Stop it" and then say something positive.
ReplyDelete-Kara