Sit'n on the porch

[Sally PB]

Very sad.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Porchers good morning one and all!

59 fog 87% humidity feels like 56 rain 13%.

Have a great day!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Good morning,
I am on cup #3, coop is open and squared away, dogs are fed, it is an icy 30 out, but very clear skys.
I am not quite sure what I want to do today- there's stuff that needs to do done I am just not sure yet if I want to get them done,,, I'll let ya know

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Porchers good morning one and all!

59 fog 87% humidity feels like 56 rain 13%.

Have a great day!

good morning Karen

 

[Sally PB]

I have two things on my list today. Haven't started either. I need to put "catching up on BYC" on my list, and then I'll get at least one thing on my list done every day.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

When I am REALLY struggling with completing things I put stuff on the list I have already done. (Took a shower, played with dog, made coffee, filled water bowl for...) Then I cross them out as 'done'.

It stops me focusing on only the things I did not do and making myself feel bad for no reason.

You did lots of things, you can do more, but even if you don't, you got up, reached out to strangers and shared a smirk (or laugh) and cared enough about them to say "hello" in a friendly way. You did something, and it reached all the way to the lot of us all over the continent.

Don't let the little voice in your head speak to you in a way that you wouldn't do to someone else.

If a stranger came up to you at Walmart and said to you what you said to yourself, would you slap her upside the head? (Or imagine you did before realizing she was mentally ill).

The truth is that you decide what your inner voice says to you. So be as kind to you as you are to us. (I suspect you deserve it more than we do most days )

 

[Ladies-Eight]

good morning Karen

@Grandmas Coop

A good morning to you.

Pick out your favorites to work on.

 

[Sally PB]

I sometimes write things on my list that I've already done, and then mark them off.

I mentioned that to a friend who is a psychologist and asked her what it meant. She said it meant that I needed reinforcement. Ok, yeah, I can see that.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

I sometimes write things on my list that I've already done, and then mark them off.

I mentioned that to a friend who is a psychologist and asked her what it meant. She said it meant that I needed reinforcement. Ok, yeah, I can see that.

She is right (in my case it is reinforcement), but it comes from being raised by a woman who never had a word of approval or encouragement. So I invent my own measures for showing me that (objectively, based on physical evidence) I am moving forward.

If she had been Right, there would be nothing on my "already done" list. Therefore, since there are things I have completed (or accomplished) she is wrong and I am entitled to feel ok about myself.

Wish I could afford a therapist, but chickens cost less and provide breakfast.

 

[Sally PB]

Therefore, since there are things I have completed (or accomplished) she is wrong and I am entitled to feel ok about myself

Absolutely!