Transcript
A (0:00)
In today's mini episode, you'll discover a simple way to regroup when life feels flat and you can't find your spark. Welcome to Takeout Therapy mini Session, a short episode to help empathic high achievers who are done with overworking, overthinking and overwhelm. I'm Rebecca Hunter, an anxiety expert and therapist here to help you calm your mind, reset your focus, and actually feel better. If you're ready to bring more presence and self compassion into your week, you're in the right place, friend. Find more tools anytime at Takeout Therap. Well, hello there. I'm so happy you stopped in for today's little episode. It's kind of different than my usual episode. I'm giving you a little glimpse into my inner world. I made this little recording the other day because I was feeling strangely numb. Not sad, not overwhelmed, just disconnected from my own life. I kept moving through my day, but nothing felt really meaningful. Does this ever happen to you? Instead of brushing it off, I paused just long enough to ask myself what would help me come back to my center. What came out was this short reflection that I'm about to play for you, and I wanted to share it in case you have days when your enthusiasm just drops off and you're not sure how to get it back or how to move forward. I hope this little recording helps you as much as it helped me.
B (1:29)
Sometimes it's easy to feel like there are so few things in life that actually matter. We're so small and life is so petty. Sometimes when I get into this space and it's really disconcerting, isn't it? Because if you feel like that, then.
A (1:49)
What'S the freaking point?
B (1:51)
So this is what I do and I'll pass it along to you in hopes that maybe you can do it in your own way to just keep plugging, you know, as a human on the earth and find some peace within it. Or acceptance, at least. Acceptance isn't like, I love this all the time. Acceptance is like, huh, isn't this interesting?
A (2:16)
I find myself here.
B (2:20)
So what I do when life feels kind of sideways and I lose interest is I focus on two things. Love and beauty. Those are just my things. You can pick your own things that kind of light you up. But I don't know. For me, love isn't about anybody but myself. And the way I look at it is when I feel love is when I'm like really nurturing myself and honoring myself. Because when I do those things, actually I let people love me a little more. Easily. I don't know about you, but sometimes when I'm in constant go, go, go mode, it's hard to let people in. So, you know, like, love expressing it, if I can muster it, which is also sometimes hard for me when things are too hectic. Expressing love gets kind of difficult in the hurry and rush of life. Yeah. So focusing on that love helps ground me, and it helps to give me a focus. When I'm kind of like, ugh, whatever, I start focusing on who's showing me love in my life. And it's funny because, you know, the brain is a funny, complicated, mysterious, but purposeful machine. So when you start to think, like, all right, I'm going to look for love in my life, holy moly. Does it show up? And you see it in unexpected places by unexpected people in your life and the life of others. Actually, when you start looking for things, your brain is really good at that. So it just starts looking for things with you, and then it becomes just basically your brain's job. So looking for love, it helps to ground me and refocus me so that I don't focus so much on, like, what is the freaking point? It gives everything a little bit of a point for me. You get to decide what you resonate with. My other one is beauty. Because if you know me at all, you know I'm a big hiker. I love nature. If you say, hey, let's go to the woods, my first answer is probably going to be, yes. Are we looking for mushrooms? Are we hiking? Are we just scoping out campsites? I am down because I love nature. I think it's beautiful from the ground to the sky. Trees and roots and flowers and leaves and dirt and bugs. I am into nature. So for me, when I feel like something's just missing in this whole situation, which I think a lot of people.