Riding a wave

[Faith-and-Hope]

💕🐢 ..... snuggle in well little turtle .....it's a beautiful sanctuary.

@Phoenix_Rising

[Former-Member]

Glad you have found a safe space to be today @Phoenix_Rising 

I hope the gigantic seas subside soon too. Thinking of you. 

[Shaz51]

I am here for you too @Phoenix_Rising , thinking of you my friend

[Zoe7]

Today didn't get any better for me little turtle - I hope it did for you @Phoenix_Rising 

[Former-Member]

Hi there @Phoenix_Rising

We meet again on Forum Land 🙂

I've just seen your post in the Worry Room and want to let you know that I am thinking of you tonight. I'm sorry that you are feeling in such a muddle and that you were triggered by something today. I am right there with you in thinking that with the right support you "can create a life worth living in spite of this most fundamental muddle." You are doing that right now in reaching out on the Forums. 

I am happy to ride this wave with you tonight. You are not alone.

[Zoe7]

@Phoenix_Rising I am not really here and don't want to be anywhere. I have been crying nearly all day and feel completely hopeless but I will sit on my rock stack for you so you know you are not alone.

[Phoenix_Rising]

Thank you for being nearby even when you aren't here @Zoe7. 

Super big thank you for wandering over to the ocean from the worry room @Former-Member. I'm in SUCH a muddle. The trigger didn't happen today, it happened weeks ago. It has just all super gigantically escalated since I saw my turtle whisperer yesterday morning. And realistically, it isn't going to be settling any time soon. 

I think I will drag myself over to visit the great yoga adventure. I really don't want to move...but I'm going to do the opposite action to what my brain is telling me. So...I will go over there and then I will come back to my cave. Good job me for working at doing the opposite action. I wonder if @CheerBear has got up to that bit in the DBT manual yet??? 

Do you want to know what other opposite action I've just done. I had a bath, when really I was perfectly happy to stay in the same PJs that I had been wearing for more than twenty-four hours. Good job me. Ok...I will go and check in on the yoga thread and then come back. You will be here to tell me I am awesome when I return @Former-Member???

[CheerBear]

I have seen Opposite Action mentioned in a few times but am not up to that bit of the manual yet @Phoenix_Rising. I am slowly working my way through mindfulness skills at the moment and practicing my being in the moment now not the moment I really kind of want to be in now (which is the distress tolerance and radical acceptance part of the manual) - it's a big, long, adventure.

I have been thinking of you heaps today. I think you'd know that though. Great work on doing the opposite action thing too. You really are really awesome.

(ps I haven't been to the yoga thread for a little while but I have been three bridges this week, and three times my being a bridge has turned into being an incredibly awkward version of "plow pose". For some strange reason, that's where my body wants to be when it tries to be a bridge!).

[Phoenix_Rising]

Ok, I'm back. I did my opposite action stuff and now I'm ready to snuggle into my shell in @CheerBear's pocket while she is in her blanket in her nest in my cave. 

@CheerBear the skills manual is definitely a big long adventure. I have ALMOST finished my marking (the papers are terribly soggy from being marked by a sea turtle in an underwater cave!). I've actually finished marking them, but I will need to go back over the first few tomorrow now that I have a better sense of how first-year students write. There has definitely been some serious face-palming going on here. I find myself cheering them on...and feeling so sad when they crash and burn after getting off to a good start. 

I really can't envisage how you get from bridge pose to plow pose...but it is making me giggle trying to imagine it. 

I think I'll be bunkering down here in my cave for quite a while, and I am super glad you are here @CheerBear. We will be able to start our together-but-not DBT adventure super soon. 

@Former-Member Can you please check in? I am feeling very proud of myself for doing the opposite action stuff and, well, quite frankly,  I need you to tell me I am awesome. 

Good night Forum Land.

[Former-Member]

Of course @Phoenix_Rising! I have beeing looking forward to a trip to the ocean and I'm glad I can ride this wave with you. Ah, I see. As you said in your post over in the Worry Room, it may take time for this muddle to become unmuddled. In the mean time, it is so nice to hear that you visited the Great Yoga Adventure AND had a bath! Doing two opposite actions when you don't feel like moving and you're feeling muddled - that is definitely something to be proud of 🙂

I will be heading back to shore soon for the night but hope you have found some comfort tonight in the Forums.

Take care and speak soon.