35. Dealing with our Mental Junk Drawer

Episode 35Welcome to the Healing Pod! Spirited away was the movie I could not remember!Anyway, here we are talking about the mental junk drawer! All the half done tasks, worries, things we’re trying to actively process or hold onto in case they get forgotten, people who we need to reply to and make sure they’re being taken care of, everything. And just like with regular junk drawers, or internet tabs, too much unfinished stuff that we try to hold onto becomes very overwhelming. We wake up tired. We avoid even the easy things that we should be able to get done. We talk down to ourselves for not being able to do the things we think we should do. So we try to do what we need to do anyway. We sort and prioritize the boxes. We face the things that have grown bigger than they really are and shrink them back to their original size/energy space. We pull things out of our head and write it down, or draw it, or talk it out. Anything so it has edges and boundaries and tangibility instead of just filling our heads. The more things we can pull out of active brain processing mode the more energy and space we have.I do want those floor to ceiling library shelves again someday. I had them as a kid..they were lovely. As always, thank you to the wonderful Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being. Come join us and chat, complain, or send in what mental health you would like to hear us ramble about! Find us on Facebook, TikTok, and instagram at The Healing Pod We are online at https://www.PeasInTheHealingPod.com  You can email us any questions, suggestions, comments, or memes at [email protected]  If you want to hunt down the bits and bobbles that have been cut out of our episode, join us for another live recording, or just to buy us a cup of coffee, come join us at https://www.patreon.com/TheHealingPod