Ain’t no one more important

It’s Finding Me Friday. As some of you know, I’ve been healing from a complex injury that was completely avoidable. The completely avoidable part is a story for another time… I’ve been pretty much immobile for the past four weeks.

That means limited walking and not a lot of painting. Ugh. This isn’t what I signed up for in the completely avoidable part of the story, and to say I’ve been a bit salty lately would be an understatement.

Once the docs were able to get the mind blowing level of pain under control, I’ve been fighting the whole gotta rest thing. I’m not one to sit around much. The couch has become my bedroom, dining area, and office. I’ve binged watched countless shows that have helped take my mind off things, but geesh, I’m getting to the stage of enough is enough.

As I’ve been working through this injury, there have been some days I’ve felt pretty down. It took a phone call with a dear friend to change my thinking as she reminded me that the resting I’m doing now is important because I am important. Ya know when you have those aha moments, this was one of them, message received.

In the mist of unexpected or uncertain life events, we often forget to acknowledge the importance of taking care of ourselves. In this gotta have it now world we live in, we might err on the side of, “just gotta push through,” instead of, “it’s ok to stop and regroup.”

My completely avoidable complex injury was a result of, “just gotta push through.” To that I say, bullocks, no more. Our bodies know a whole lot more than we think, and when they’re telling us to to slow down and pivot - listen because you are your most important YOU.

Keep creating.