Im having a terribly difficult time reading this one. Its simply too relaxing which is problematic since I read before bed, and I only get about a paragraph in before dropping my phone on my face >:'(
But it makes for lovely re-reads so its not so bad :)
I also read Wintering during my own ‘winter’, (housebound/bedbound with me/cfs for 2 years) and I loved it. I think going though these fallow periods is so important for us to grow and evolve as creatives/ humans. For me it was to learn the value of rest, to learn how to set boundaries and say ‘no’.. (and a million other things!) Just joined and loving your posts so far, thank you. 🥰
I so enjoyed reading this at my desk today with my heater on and a very out of character rainstorm in Los Angeles brewing outside my window. I was so interesting to hear that the Let Down Effect has a name! I have some first-hand experience with something similar, in September of this year, and it immediately popped into my mind while reading this.
This most recent summer, I had probably one of the most stressful work periods of my life (I work as an art studio manager and painting assistant). For about a month and a half, I was working for 50-60 hours every week under very high stress conditions, doing physical labor with intense concentration all day for most of the time I would be awake. Two days after we finished all the work(the show went great <3), I was driving to my friend's house to watch the bachelorette with her and her roommates and I started feeling super strange in my face. I tried to scrunch it up and blink both eyes, but I started feeling like I couldn't move one side of my face. By the time I got to her house, it was completely unresponsive and I could not move it. I was terrified and thought I was having a stroke, but one of her roommates (an EMT!) told me she was sure I had Bell's Palsy. They calmed me down, hydrated me & fed me nectarines.
The next morning I went to Urgent Care, and got diagnosed with Bell's Palsy, paralysis of half of the face due to any number of reasons including stress, infection, Lyme Disease, mystery reason, etc. This lasted about 2.5 months and came with super sensitive hearing + facial pain on the affected side. ANYWAYS at present day I am mostly healed but this is exactly what I've been dealing with for this last whole autumn so it was crazy gratifying to see it talked about in this post today 😭❤️
oh my lord that sounds so scary and stressful! A family member had Bell's Palsy when I still lived in the UK and I remember how frightening it was. I am so glad you're on the mend and I hope you got to watch a lot of Bachelorette during the recovery process.
Truly loved and connected with this post (much like all your other posts). Your writing is so sooting, its like visiting my darkest days (not as a perticipant but a visitor) with a gentle guide. Thank you for making my day brighter.
Im having a terribly difficult time reading this one. Its simply too relaxing which is problematic since I read before bed, and I only get about a paragraph in before dropping my phone on my face >:'(
But it makes for lovely re-reads so its not so bad :)
I also read Wintering during my own ‘winter’, (housebound/bedbound with me/cfs for 2 years) and I loved it. I think going though these fallow periods is so important for us to grow and evolve as creatives/ humans. For me it was to learn the value of rest, to learn how to set boundaries and say ‘no’.. (and a million other things!) Just joined and loving your posts so far, thank you. 🥰
I so enjoyed reading this at my desk today with my heater on and a very out of character rainstorm in Los Angeles brewing outside my window. I was so interesting to hear that the Let Down Effect has a name! I have some first-hand experience with something similar, in September of this year, and it immediately popped into my mind while reading this.
This most recent summer, I had probably one of the most stressful work periods of my life (I work as an art studio manager and painting assistant). For about a month and a half, I was working for 50-60 hours every week under very high stress conditions, doing physical labor with intense concentration all day for most of the time I would be awake. Two days after we finished all the work(the show went great <3), I was driving to my friend's house to watch the bachelorette with her and her roommates and I started feeling super strange in my face. I tried to scrunch it up and blink both eyes, but I started feeling like I couldn't move one side of my face. By the time I got to her house, it was completely unresponsive and I could not move it. I was terrified and thought I was having a stroke, but one of her roommates (an EMT!) told me she was sure I had Bell's Palsy. They calmed me down, hydrated me & fed me nectarines.
The next morning I went to Urgent Care, and got diagnosed with Bell's Palsy, paralysis of half of the face due to any number of reasons including stress, infection, Lyme Disease, mystery reason, etc. This lasted about 2.5 months and came with super sensitive hearing + facial pain on the affected side. ANYWAYS at present day I am mostly healed but this is exactly what I've been dealing with for this last whole autumn so it was crazy gratifying to see it talked about in this post today 😭❤️
oh my lord that sounds so scary and stressful! A family member had Bell's Palsy when I still lived in the UK and I remember how frightening it was. I am so glad you're on the mend and I hope you got to watch a lot of Bachelorette during the recovery process.
Truly loved and connected with this post (much like all your other posts). Your writing is so sooting, its like visiting my darkest days (not as a perticipant but a visitor) with a gentle guide. Thank you for making my day brighter.
this makes me so incredibly happy to read, thank you for this!
How did you read this so quickly? Or did you just scroll the the footnote like always?