Self Care Part 2...

Self care for Vik:

Smoke - I've smoked cannabis for a few years now. Primarily I use it as medicine. Pain relief. But I also use it to help me upstairs too. It helps me with my anxiety and helps me to look at things more clearly. Although my shrink does that too. Heh.

Books & Writing - I learned to read when I was 2, and writing came not long after. Books have always been my escape and so has writing. Until the inconvenience of Writer's Block. Insert sarcastic eye roll here, as writing on a laptop doesn't have emoji thingys. 

Music - Music just does something good to my brain. I'm stoned so it's a little bit hard to put it articulately. I just know that when I hear music I relax. That's as good a place to start as any right?

Crystals - I've always been interested in crystals since I was small and I've always collected them. A lot of people just like pretty stones, and that's completely fine; I freely admit that I'm a magpie who likes pretty stones. But for me personally, something about crystal energies resonates with me, so I try to use them in my witchcraft as I feel that they help me.

I would put up some pictures but at the moment my laptop is being a bit of a pig and not letting me upload anything. At the moment my 2 favourite focus stones are Labradorite and Hematite.

Note to self: Try and get my laptop sorted so I can put up cool pictures. 

Self Care Part 1...

I tried to write the other night but The Evil Bastard Writer's Block showed its ugly face again. Sat there, ready to go, headphones on, clean page, and...Nothing. Nada. Sweet fuck all.

So I thought I'd give it another go. Now that I'm sufficiently stoned and just about chilled down enough anyway. 

(Side note, I smoke cannabis, and it will probably be mentioned on some of my more personal posts, like if I talk about Fibro. If this offends you please feel free to not read this page. And also right this second I'm too high to really give a fuck about any judgements.)

I've been feeling completely drained this week. Pretty damn sure I'm in a flare-up. Again. As per fucking usual. Maffoo's been home cuz he's had a chest infection, then I got the bug as well. But I've got the day off today, so I've done all my housework, put my meditation music on and had a smoke.

I've also only recently starting actively practicing witchcraft after years of lurking in the shadows as it were, so I'm looking for ways to incorporate it into my self care routines. I love Me Time but I'm trying to follow my shrink's advice and actually DO IT.

Self Care for Vik:

Smoke - Helps to calm my mind, brings my anxiety down, opens up my mind which will help me to write, helps me to focus, makes things clearer,

Books - Get lost for hours, gives me inspiration for writing, calms my mind,

Music - Helps me to relax, relaxes my body (meditation sounds),

Crystals - Calms me down, keeps me grounded eg: an anxiety or panic attack,

I'm surprised that I've manged to write so much again. And I don't feel too bad about it. I've actually just given myself an idea for another post.