10-05-2011, 09:37 PM
Patti, you're smart to wait on it until you're able to totally devote yourself to it. It'll be really cool to see if we experience similar things when you're ready to start it.
So I'm a pretty laid back, fun loving kind of girl. But I also have this incredibly deep, serious side where I take on the world in my thoughts. There's also a deep spiritual side that I have that's always exploring and trying to find the right fit. The three sometimes clash. I've had to work really hard in my early to mid 20's to overcome shyness. I was such an introvert in high school and pretty much a loner. I had friends, but I had social anxiety so I spent a lot of time by myself or with my family. It held me back in a lot of ways. I sheltered myself from a lot of opportunities and experiences that I'm now doing. I went into psychology to help understand myself better and the people around me. What resulted was years of self improvement, working on self esteem, forcing myself to be social, developing a sense of humor, and getting out and going places, traveling etc.. When I was younger I never laughed. Everything was so serious. How boring when I look back. Now I'm 30, and I have more friends than I've ever had, and I'm much more comfortable socially. I now consider myself to be an extroverted introvert whereas before I was just an introvert. I've also worked a lot on motivating myself to make routines. That's been the hardest thing, but I'm getting better about that too. So, going into this program, I've already helped set some of the ground work, but I still need a lot of finesse. There are also a lot of more practical areas that I've overlooked, as well as financial (which I'm addressing with going back to school). But it amazes me how smart my fiance is with his finances. He's been teaching me how to invest, and little tips on saving that are really helpful.
The emotions, the hormones, definitely. Every woman deals with these on a regular basis. My biggest one lately has been irritability for no reason. Maybe hormonal, or maybe just my mind set. The last 2+ weeks I was really negative and angry. The dumbest things would set me off. Then last Sunday I had a scheduled massage for school, and it totally shifted just based on the conversation I had with my classmate during the massage. Since then I've been back to my positive self again. I'd like to have more conscious control over my mind set like that, and not let myself fall into negative thought patterns. I felt like crap physically just by how I was thinking.
AF is supposed to do so many other things too. Almost sounds too good to be true. I'm hoping it will help me when I get out of massage and pt to be fearless about starting my own business and building clientele. It'd be awesome if it'd help me in the motivation department where my wedding planning is concerned too! I have so much to do, but have been putting if off cause it's not til next year. We have to the big things in place, but it's all the little details now that I'm avoiding. lol. Time to wake up!
So I'm a pretty laid back, fun loving kind of girl. But I also have this incredibly deep, serious side where I take on the world in my thoughts. There's also a deep spiritual side that I have that's always exploring and trying to find the right fit. The three sometimes clash. I've had to work really hard in my early to mid 20's to overcome shyness. I was such an introvert in high school and pretty much a loner. I had friends, but I had social anxiety so I spent a lot of time by myself or with my family. It held me back in a lot of ways. I sheltered myself from a lot of opportunities and experiences that I'm now doing. I went into psychology to help understand myself better and the people around me. What resulted was years of self improvement, working on self esteem, forcing myself to be social, developing a sense of humor, and getting out and going places, traveling etc.. When I was younger I never laughed. Everything was so serious. How boring when I look back. Now I'm 30, and I have more friends than I've ever had, and I'm much more comfortable socially. I now consider myself to be an extroverted introvert whereas before I was just an introvert. I've also worked a lot on motivating myself to make routines. That's been the hardest thing, but I'm getting better about that too. So, going into this program, I've already helped set some of the ground work, but I still need a lot of finesse. There are also a lot of more practical areas that I've overlooked, as well as financial (which I'm addressing with going back to school). But it amazes me how smart my fiance is with his finances. He's been teaching me how to invest, and little tips on saving that are really helpful.
The emotions, the hormones, definitely. Every woman deals with these on a regular basis. My biggest one lately has been irritability for no reason. Maybe hormonal, or maybe just my mind set. The last 2+ weeks I was really negative and angry. The dumbest things would set me off. Then last Sunday I had a scheduled massage for school, and it totally shifted just based on the conversation I had with my classmate during the massage. Since then I've been back to my positive self again. I'd like to have more conscious control over my mind set like that, and not let myself fall into negative thought patterns. I felt like crap physically just by how I was thinking.
AF is supposed to do so many other things too. Almost sounds too good to be true. I'm hoping it will help me when I get out of massage and pt to be fearless about starting my own business and building clientele. It'd be awesome if it'd help me in the motivation department where my wedding planning is concerned too! I have so much to do, but have been putting if off cause it's not til next year. We have to the big things in place, but it's all the little details now that I'm avoiding. lol. Time to wake up!
