Off the Rails

Sometimes we go off the rails. Fall off the wagon. Lose touch with ourselves. Can’t find our center.

It’s normal. We’re human. Sometimes we falter. Sometimes we need redirection.

So we do whatever it is we need to do to get refocused. To redirect. To find our center again.

Give yourself permission to falter when things get tough. And even if it makes you feel silly or stupid, reach out to your support network. Talk to your friends, those who support you during the tough times and ask them for help and guidance, or sometimes just to listen.

Cry if you need to.

Recently I spent an entire day crying over something that ultimately was silly and didn’t pan out to be as bad as I thought it would. But on that one day, I just felt like hell, and for whatever reason this now seemingly silly issue hit me hard. Very hard. Got at something in the core of my being that clearly needed to come out, to be expressed. So I let it out. And then I called Denise, who gave me some amazing, yet simple, advice.

Denise told me to use that day to have a pity party. Spend the whole day feeling sorry for myself if I needed to. And then the next day, I needed to pick myself up, brush myself off, and jump back into the fray.

Amazing advice. Worked like a charm. The next day I was better and moved on with my regularly scheduled life.

So when your life goes off the rails, take a day. Take a day to feel it, to wallow in it, to be disappointed by it, and to cry or even yell about it. Take a day. And when that day is over, get your awesome train back on track!