Riding without stabilisers... How to keep going forward without losing your balance and crashing!

Life always throws challenge into the heady mix of the day to day.  Myself, I have a husband undertaking spinal surgery today, as a result a week full of house guests, a busy job, and I am also trying to secure a new employment position.  All of this has created a heightened sense of instability and therefore the need to keep centred, a cool head, plus to deftly switch hats from employee, partner, mother, hostess etc in order to meet everyones' NT expectations! Performance anxiety abounds!!

So, my question is...

What keeps you grounded when the world sometimes spin too fast?

What routines, internal mantras, techniques do you use to keep your "**** together" and to stop you imploding into a shutdown/meltdown/implosion/arrrrgggghhhh??

Hope all is well with everyone out there! best wishes to all

Ellie x

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  • I think probably my children are my gravity, they keep me grounded and on track even when my instinct is to fly off E.T.-style. As for what calms me down, either reading (just to lose myself in completely and escape) or the dog. He gives me a look when I'm freaking out that's part way between "Seriously?" and "I don't know what I've done but I'm sorry anyway!" and either of those makes me stop and b-r-e-a-t-h-e-...  Or he brings me a ball, apparently a ball is always the answer. 

  • A ball! Eureka, tell your dog, thank you! Hehe! 

    ....it’s all coming back to me now!

    ....that’s it!

    The bike just didn’t feel right..

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