Author: catgooge

What can you let go of today? Even if it’s just a little bit? What would feel good to release?

Control? Judgement? Fear? Overthinking? Getting it right? 

What feels most alive for you right now? 

Just take some long, deep breaths and let it go. Let your shoulders drop and make space for something else. Something that doesn’t limit you.

Something that reminds you who you are. 

Do you make time to ask yourself what you need? Do you create space to listen? Do you take action from that space?

If you’ve slowed down over the summer, maybe you’ve even taken August out of your business, you may well be feeling an urgent pull to get back to it and the need to catch up and push through. And in doing so it can all feel too much…this is when the overwhelm can start to kick in and you fall into a spiral.

Feel familiar? 

I see you lovely. 

Drowning in work, overwhelmed by home and family shizzle, feeling overrun with stuff to do. Navigating the pandemic has left us feeling exhausted and depleted. It’s all too much.

I see you.

So when you’re in this space how do you find things to smile about?

How do you even start feeling like your own happiness is a priority? 

Do you ever find yourself feeling like happiness is something ‘nice to have”…a bit of a luxury even??? Putting off doing something that makes you feel happy until you’ve done X, Y and Z? And then time runs away and that happiness hit you were looking forward to just doesn’t happen.

We’ve all been there. We are all human after all. 

In the current lives we lead it is so easy to be caught up in busy-ness, to feel that there is so much to do that we forget to make our own happiness a priority.

Maybe you’re focusing so much on everyone else’s happiness that yours gets sidelined, maybe factoring yourself in adds to the ‘too muchness’ you’ve got going on so something enjoyable feels stressful or maybe you just can’t remember what lights you up anymore.

If this is resonating with you, you are not alone. 

Hey lovely I see you.

Up late engrossed in yet another box set deliberating whether to dive into just one more episode before you slide off to bed. It’s your only downtime so it’s NEEDED. And surely just one more line of chocolate won’t hurt? And whilst you’re at it you may as well have another glass of red. 

I see you. 

There is always so much to juggle so there is no time for you. EVER. Feeling good feels like such an effort. Everything feels so far out of reach. It’s draining. And when you feel drained, happiness feels like such hard work doesn’t it?

You just want some pockets of feeling good. Some pockets of feeling like you. Some pockets of not feeling consumed by all this stuff going on around you. Some pockets of JOY.

Are you feeling more meh than mwah at the moment?

Are you finding it harder to notice things that make you feel good?

Is happiness feeling like hard work right now?

You’re not alone, lovely. You’re not alone.

When your resources are low, when you’re not winning at self worth, when you’re struggling to love yourself happiness can seem so far away can’t it, so out of reach.

Happiness shouldn’t feel like a luxury, something ‘nice to have’ but when you’re feeling less than and depleted it goes to the bottom of the pile. 

We’ve all been there.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Do you believe in yourself?

It’s such a simple question isn’t it and yet it’s not. 

It’s one that you could ponder for a looooooong time and still not know the answer.

It’s one that you can know the answer to straightaway without giving it too much thought. 

It can be triggering.

It can be empowering.

It conjures up different things for different people. And you might get different answers on different days. 

And if you’re going arggghhhhh it’s complicated I hear you lovely, I hear you. It really can be.

So many emotional responses to a seemingly simple question that we should all be a resounding hell f***ing YES to!

And yet it isn’t always that simple is it? .

What does loving yourself feel like for you?

What does it mean for you when you give yourself a gorgeous dose of self love?

Does it come easily to you or is it a challenge?

If you’re reading this and wondering who the hell gives themselves a gorgeous dose of self love you’re not alone lovely. So often the love piece is there for everyone else yet you can forget to make it a priority for yourself. So when it comes to you there’s nothing left. You’ve been so busy prioritising their needs that there isn’t any time and space left for you. 

And that’s before we even mention the whole guilt thing! 

I hear you. It’s not your fault lovely. It’s not your fault. 

How often do you show yourself love?

How often do you take time for yourself?

How often do you prioritise your needs?

Is that even a thing that you do?

The busy-ness of life so often gets in the way of what supports us, what helps us feel good, what helps us feel loved. And the thing is the more often we forget to look after ourselves the harder it is to deal with the busy-ness of life. 

Sound familiar?

It’s safe for you to prioritise your needs.

You are worthy of love.

It’s safe for you to make time for yourself. 

Do you listen to your inner voice? Is it a positive or negative influence? What comes up for you when you think about this? 

Your inner voice is run by your inner critic and your inner coach and which one you tune in to can depend very much on how you are feeling in the moment. Because life is like that right? There are always curve balls and things to navigate so the more we know how to support ourselves the easier it is to move through.

We all have a critic and a coach and learning how to tune IN to what supports us – the coach – and tune OUT of what doesn’t – the critic – is key. 

Often the inner critic has been dominating your thoughts for a long time so using tools and techniques to quieten it is super helpful. The critic can get in the way of your hopes and dreams. The critic can convince you that you are less than. The critic LOVES to sabotage. 

Feel Familiar?