control
There is so much to feel right now. Too much. I feel like my head is going to explode into a thousand tiny pieces of glittery garbage because of how many feelings and thoughts I have to process this week, after realizing how much of my country - MY COUNTRY - does not think that I should have the right to make decisions about what happens to MY LIFE. And somehow, someway, that is one of many MANY harm-filled outcomes that my fellow Americans decided was simply not a problem in this election. I don't know how we are possibly supposed to move on. But I will try. In therapy this week, we talked about focusing on our "circle of control" and I have been holding on to that concept so tight in the days following that I may very well PASS OUT from the effort. I am absolutely wringing it dry!! But all things considered, it has helped me get to a point where I am actually able to (every once in a while, for maybe 10 minutes out of the day) focus on something other than the fact tha...