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May 4, 2016 at 8:12 pm #103607AnonymousGuest
Dear cath:
The good thing about feelings is that they change. I was anxious an hour ago and now I feel better. Wednesday still, then tomorrow. Be mindful tomorrow, pay attention to how you feel throughout the day and looking forward to read your post after.
Take good care of yourself!
anita
May 5, 2016 at 5:14 pm #103696AnonymousInactiveI’m leaving now Anita…. Painful to feel that I’m going there but not to see him as I always used to. I’m glad it’s going to be a quick trip because I really don’t want to get into an emotional vortex…
May 5, 2016 at 7:52 pm #103709AnonymousGuestDear cath:
Hope you have a safe trip back. Write me when you get back and how it was.
anita
May 7, 2016 at 7:57 pm #103891AnonymousInactiveDear anita,
I’m back home.
so it turns out i didn’t feel any emotional vortex afterall.
I went there for bureaucracy purposes but also to pick up my stuff back that were in my former house with ex. A friend was storing them over for me, so I did not have to meet with him.
As I picked up my stuff, everything was a mess, and as a detail, he left an used underwear that belonged to someone else as a ”gift”. Honestly, his bad taste and willingness to harm me did not harm me at all. It didn’t affect me at all.
I know I’m bigger than this and that I deserve better.
In the day after (yesterday) I went to my favorite place in this city, which is a rock that faces to a beach and with a view to a breathtaking sunset and meditated for quite a long time. It was a beautiful day. The message I received from the unvierse at that moment somehow was to feel gratitude. To everything. To that moment, to the strong woman I have become, and even to the ex. To the life I’ve had in that city,and to the fact that I’ve been doing a lot better and winning this battle that I thought I never would.
So i’m just being thankful to life and to the universe right now.
And sincerely- I didn’t plan on contacting ex ever again in my life (we haven’t spoken in ages, he messaged me a few weeks ago but being mean as always and I never replied) – but I emailed him today just saying thanks for him having been part of my life and for all the learning. Just to say a final goodbye with a positive message. To cut the negativity cycle. The title of the email was indeed goodbye.
So, on to new adventures anita. WOrking hard to move abroad here. Just hoping the universe will help me with that. With my PhD that I’ve been dreaming about. 🙂
anxiously waiting for your remarks!May 7, 2016 at 8:40 pm #103892AnonymousGuestDear cath:
What a delightful account, from a beautiful sunset to gratitude, feeling you deserve better, being a strong woman, hoping and dreaming … (even a stranger’s used underwear can’t taint this positive experience!)
Now, there is a saying: whatever goes up, must come down”- there is this concept I like: when you feel happy and well, acknowledge while feeling good that you will feel badly again, as is the nature of feeling. And when you feel badly, acknowledge that you will feel good again.
This way you prepare yourself to the changes that are part of being a feeling human. No feeling stays unchanged.
I like your goodbye note to the ex. Leave it be the final goodbye.
Make this visit you had in the city, the final goodbye to him and to the relationship with him.
And now, a new beginning. Please act every day with the aim to promote your well being. Expect your feelings to change and don’t be alarmed when they do. It is only natural. Think of feelings as the weather and take good care of yourself when the sun is hiding behind dark clouds and when the sun is shining pleasantly at you. All the time, be good to you!
Congratulations for doing so well. Thank you for posting like you said you will. Looking forward to your future posts!!!
anita
May 17, 2016 at 7:39 pm #104854AnonymousInactiveAnita,
you are right- feelings are like the weather and sometimes a bit of sadness comes and goes. But I usually do what you have told me multiple times, which works perfectly well: to endure. to watch it come and go. It was the most helpful advice someone has ever given to me. I’m treating me very well 🙂 this has been quite the lesson as well of these tough times. I’m everything I’ve got afterall.
Will keep posting 🙂May 17, 2016 at 8:27 pm #104862AnonymousGuestDear cath:
What a delightful post, so glad to read it. What I like the best about it: “I’m treating me very well.”
And then I was pleased that you endure the emotions, watching them coming and going, like the weather.
Plus, two smiley faces- you made my evening, cath! Please do post again and again… and yet again.
anita
May 23, 2016 at 8:59 pm #105439AnonymousGuestDear cath:
I had to tell you: five minutes before you posted last, a reply on another thread, I thought about you and went back the list of threads looking for this one.. then did something else and there your name showed up. I like the little smiley face line you wrote with my name mentioned.
These very days I am practicing more of what I wrote to you. When I feel anxious, I notice it and I don’t panic or escalate. I say to myself: I am feeling this or that. It is okay.
I think when we feel distressed, we get alarmed, scared of feeling even worse. When we notice, catch ourselves at the beginning of the distress, just as we started feeling distressed, and then talk to ourselves, calm, comfort ourselves, well, that works.
Again and again, it is working for me.
Take good care of yourself-
anita
June 2, 2016 at 7:40 pm #106338AnonymousInactiveAnita! 🙂 glad to hear from you.
Busy week around here, but thinking about lots of things. Will write during the weekend! 🙂June 3, 2016 at 9:11 am #106357AnonymousGuestAnytime you feel like writing, cath. Take care!
anitaJune 13, 2016 at 8:14 pm #107203AnonymousInactivehey anita,
stopping by to update.
Doing much better. I’m proud of who i’ve become-i actually love myself right now- first time in my life. amazing accomplishment. but as we said last time, there are always ups and downs and some days are better than others, some are worse. I had spent a sort of anxious;afraid i’d be sad/days last week. Yesterday was valentines day where I live and also when me and ex celebrated our anniversary.
Life is funny and interesting and brings us surpries. ended up meeting someone accidentally these days-though im not looking for anything serious right now-he took me to a nice afternoon yesterday and i also had a nice brunch with friends. there little things in life that makes us smile and shows us that yes, theres light at the end of the tunnel 🙂How are you, anita?
June 13, 2016 at 11:56 pm #107222Brav3ParticipantHey Cath,
Stopping by to see your update. Looks like life is slowly coming together. Glad you are doing okay 🙂
Brav3
June 14, 2016 at 9:39 am #107249AnonymousGuestDear cath:
Pleased to get your update and to read the positive and realistic content of it. Maybe a new relationship… if it is or could be, take it very slow, get to know him over time. Liking yourself- I do like that very much! I am fine, life is interesting, here on tiny Buddha and elsewhere.
Take care!
anitaJune 14, 2016 at 6:56 pm #107306AnonymousInactiveAnita,
as always, relationship with my mother, is the issue all over again. She wants to try to fix it but I can’t pretend anymore and try it fakely. I’ve had enough negative remarks from her over my life. That i’m ungrateful, that i’m a bad person, that i’ll die alone, etc. I’m done with that and i’ve made that clear. Unfortunately today I had to ask her not to attend the same yoga class that I was going to attend (we go to the same gym), because she takes away all the pleasure of yoga for me when she is practing with me. Honestly I dont know if I was unfair in this case or not, but i suppose some boundaries are necessary so that i don’t hear all that cr*ap anymore? I don’t know, honestly.June 14, 2016 at 6:59 pm #107308AnonymousGuestDear cath:
Not only I think you did the right thing asking her to not attend the same yoga class as you do, I think it would be right for you to not have her in your life at all. It is your right to not hear more crap about what a bad person you are. For crying out loud, what the *#&^ is wrong with these mothers…?!!
Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
anita
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