Living Room Yoga, LLC

09/05/2026

Self-Care During an Emotional Trigger

We all have things that trigger us. For me, it is always relationships.

I had a relationship painfully end a couple of years ago, and this week I experienced something that brought all that pain rushing back again. The pain I felt was completely out of proportion to the situation. Nonetheless, there it was.

So how do you self-care when your rationality goes out the window and your entire being feels like one big painful wound?

Old me would have gone on one severe chocolate binge (okay, I did a little over-indulging on Reese’s Cups), sought out reassurance and affirmation wherever I could find it, acted out on people who had nothing to do with the situation, and fully indulged in self-flagellation.

What I actually did was different.

I judiciously chose to share with only a couple of loved ones that I was struggling. I engaged in my reflective writing to get all my thoughts and emotions out, and then faced and examined each of them one by one. I set boundaries around the situation. I performed my regular self-care activities—getting enough sleep, exercising, doing yoga. I kept a handle on the irrational thoughts that popped up.

And otherwise, I just felt the feelings.

I am not going to lie. Liquid wanted to leak out of my eyes all day at work, but I kept it together.

Then the weirdest thing happened.

The storm… just… passed.

Yep.

After all that painful intensity that felt like a tornado raging around me and threatening to spiral me into oblivion, I woke up on Friday morning feeling… okay.

Calm.

Peaceful, even.

No one was more astonished than me.

The situation hadn't magically changed. I hadn't gotten some grand resolution or the reassurance I thought I needed. I had simply allowed myself to feel what I was feeling without letting those feelings run the show.

And then, eventually, they passed.

These practices work.

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08/29/2026

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08/29/2026

SELF-CARE AS LETTING GO OF OPTIMIZATION

There was a time (and not all that long ago) that I felt all down time had to be optimized. Home sick? Let's do some marketing. Client cancelled? Let's do some more marketing. Slow week? Maybe we should try that new system of marketing that promises to transform our business (none of them ever did). Exhausted? Push through. Need to exercise? Yeah, but the checkbook needs to be balanced. You get the picture. I pushed any personal needs aside for what I perceived as more pressing or important. The problem is, when I wasn't taking care of my TRUE NEEDS, decisions tended to be made out of anxiety instead of from a grounded, confident place. That seldom turned out well.

COVID put a hard stop to my working 60-70 hours a week including all day Saturday. The stress of working in the COVID environment took its toll, and I just could not drive myself as hard anymore. With more down time to think and rest, I started on a trek to a more balanced life and more grounded decisions.

Yesterday, I realized how far I've come. I started colonoscopy prep on Thursday night. Five hours to get half of it down Thursdays and three hours the next a.m. I worked it like a job. Old me would have figured out a way to also be productive in between... uh... you know. Current me played games on my phone and watched some shows.

And when Barry asked me to do something brain heavy on Friday, I made a different decision than the old me would have. Old me would have dived in despite my mental and physical exhaustion. Current me quickly did the easy version of the task and left the hard stuff, realizing that just taking care of my health for a couple of days was enough.

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08/22/2026

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