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Calm Mamas / Mental Health - December Checkin
mamanbebe
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This is a place to seek and offer support amongst other women on this journey. Feel free to discuss different tactics for calming your nerves with meditation, yoga, therapy, gentle exercise or other helpful practices. If you feel you need to share some pertinent personal information that could be stressful or triggering for other women, please note with a *TW explanation* and Spoiler (select text, click paragraph button and select 'spoiler').
How are you doing lately?
What have you been practicing to ease your stress/anxiety?
What are your goals for the next few weeks?
Questions/comments/concerns?
How are you doing lately?
What have you been practicing to ease your stress/anxiety?
What are your goals for the next few weeks?
Questions/comments/concerns?
Re: Calm Mamas / Mental Health - December Checkin
I’ve just been so sick, so that’s been a downer for sure. I’ve been a bit irritable as well, probably from lack of food and hormones!
What have you been practicing to ease your stress/anxiety?
Setting healthy boundaries in my life! This is a must with family/friends and of course my job. I am actually a therapist!
What are your goals for the next few weeks?
Get through this morning sickness so I can eat real food, WANT to spend time with people, start exercising, and being able to work each day without worrying about getting sick.
Questions/comments/concerns?
Mostly related to being sick, but I’ll make it!
I've been taking time for myself when I need it. I'm actually using sick days when I'm sick and putting myself and baby ahead of my job for once. Also the many ultrasounds and appointments are making me at least feel proactive about everything.
My goals are to get through the next few weeks of work so I can relax a bit over the holidays and to try to be a little bit calmer at my us and OB appointments.
Nope...unless anyone has found a substitute for drinking water that doesn't make them throw up:/
I’ve been trying to take time to walk on the treadmill and sometimes read in the evening.
My goal would be to be more consistent with this and to try to avoid imagining the future too much to the point that I get anxious.
What have you been practicing to ease your stress/anxiety? I've continued to exercise which always helps and I've gone to bed early basically every night.
What are your goals for the next few weeks? Try and get to Christmas. No one in my family knows yet, so my normal support system (other than DH) isn't available right now. I also want to hit the "more energized" stage of the second trimester I keep hearing about.
Questions/comments/concerns? Sadly, I've realized that alcohol played a big part in my after work wind down. When I had a stressful day (which wasn't every day) I'd poor myself a drink and let go. Not being able to do that has taken its toll and I'm less able to wind down in the evening.
What have you been practicing to ease your stress/anxiety? I've been seeing a therapist who focuses on moms every other week, just to talk through anxiety and stresses. It's more of an accountability partner than anything, but it's also nice to vent!
What are your goals for the next few weeks? I'm working on de-busying my life. Cutting unnecessary obligations and finding ways to make other tasks easier. I found a SAHM who hires out as a mother's helper and she meal planned for a week for me, and then went grocery shopping and prepped all the meals. I came home today to a stocked fridge and was able to cook a healthy meal from scratch (something that relaxes me but that I haven't really had a chance to do) in no time. This is such a game changer for me and a stress reliever. I'm so happy I found her.
Questions/comments/concerns?
Aside from therapy, I want to start exercising more. It helps but I feel so tired, dizzy, and nauseous I just haven't done anything lately.
Goals are to make it through 1st tri. Lol.
@cindler I miss wine too. And coffee, which is not at all appealing to me right now. It just feels like nothing helps.
What have you been practicing to ease your stress/anxiety? Combination of yoga and meditation has helped me a lot. I found a couple of guided meditation series that have really been helping me. I’m looking to add some medications possibly to the mix soon as well.
What are your goals for the next few weeks? Get my depression in check and not let things I have no control over bother me so much. It’s been a little rough navigating all the emotions starting to come back after my last birth. It was pretty traumatic and I’m starting to doubt if I can do this again. Praying I’ll be able to stay strong and not continue to doubt myself and my strength. I’m meeting with my therapist next week to discuss things I can do now to start getting ahead of these thoughts and feelings.
Questions/comments/concerns? Am I crazy to think I might have some ptsd from my last labor and delivery? It was really traumatic and I don’t want to relive it and go into details. I carry so much guilt for what my husband had to go through alone with the twins and me, while I was fighting for my life.
Yesterday I just couldn't handle life. Between work stress and home stress I had a total meltdown. I cried for probably two hours and then passed out from exhaustion. I've had very fitful sleep the last couple of nights. DH is going through a rough time too and I hate that I haven't been there for him which makes me feel worse. It's going to be a rough 7 more months if it continues like this.
Anyone else noticing a surge in anxiety? I’m 11+1 and have also been on edge lately and hormonal. Lol.
im trying to put any negative thoughts out of my mind and focus on the present, as hard as that is to do sometimes! Meditation, exercise and getting also plenty of sleep is helping.
Not great, physical symptoms are taking a toll on my mental health. I feel completely beat down and not like myself at all. Feelings of hopelessness about ever feeling better are starting to creep in and I fear being physically and emotionally miserable for the rest of the pregnancy.
What have you been practicing to ease your stress/anxiety?
It is less stress/anxiety and more sadness, lethargy. I try to take naps and eat well, and do easy things I enjoy like watching tv. A good solid cry also helps.
What are your goals for the next few weeks?
Start to feel more like myself, fake it till I make it if I have to. Even if that means pushing myself to clean and organize a task until I collapse. Oh, and for the extreme nausea to GO AWAY ALREADY!
Questions/comments/concerns?
Is anyone else really struggling at work? I work from home, and even then I have had to call out a few days because I just couldn't manage. My productivity is declining and that is causing me more stress.