{"id":1537,"date":"2023-02-16T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:50:07","slug":"the-ups-of-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"The Ups of Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Blog was published first as The Healing Journey Letter. Click here to Subscribe.<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n

As as child of the 70s and 80s, I would have considered 2023 to be “The Future” when I was growing up. It amazes me that The Future is now the present, and though we don’t have flying cars (yet), technology is boldly taking us where no one has been before.<\/p>\n

That said, times are really tough. I sincerely hope that wherever you are, whatever you are doing, you are finding the love, care and support you need to live through the pains of this day and age. I know it’s not easy.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been reading my letters, you’ll know that in September 2021 I began to experience health challenges. In mid-October 2022, just over a year later, I started to feel better.<\/p>\n

Can I get a “hallelujah”?<\/p>\n

Thank you. It feels great. Lifestyle changes definitely helped, but time, more than anything else, seems to have made the real difference.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the year, some of you heard me describe my 3-part wellness program:<\/p>\n

Turn people down; let people down; lie down.<\/p>\n

A friend suggested I share it with all of you, so here is The Down Remedy:<\/p>\n

1. Turn people down:<\/p>\n

Someone asks you to do something for them.
\nYou don’t want to do it but you are willing to sacrifice your well-being so they won’t be disappointed.
\nYou realize the insanity of that line of thinking and understand there is no having it both ways:
\nYou either honour your feelings or you please them.
\nYou say NO.
\nThey are disappointed but the world doesn’t stop.<\/p>\n

2. Let people down:<\/p>\n

People admire you.
\nYou have shown yourself to be someone who can handle anything.
\nYou start to make decisions (see #1) that shatter people’s opinion of you.
\nYou are no longer a superhero in the eyes of many.
\nAgain, amazingly, the world doesn’t stop.<\/p>\n

3. Lie down:<\/p>\n

You don’t want to rest.
\nYou want to keep stimulating, keep doing, keep going.
\nInstead, you force yourself to lie down, to close your eyes, to let go and rest.
\nThe world does stop, for a while.
\nAnd it’s a very good thing.<\/p>\n

Take as prescribed, Gentle Readers.<\/p>\n

From the fires of love,<\/p>\n

Celia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Blog was published first as The Healing Journey Letter. Click here to Subscribe.Dearest Readers, As as child of the 70s and 80s, I would have considered 2023 to be “The Future” when I was growing up. It amazes me that The Future is now the present, and though we don’t have flying cars (yet),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[949,502,840,289,910],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-being-enough","tag-codependency","tag-letting-go","tag-people-pleasing","tag-spiritual-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}