Since I realized that feeling my feelings, whatever they are, is so important to my mental and social health, I built a few tools to whip out when feelings come up.

It’s all just too much. It honestly is. We try to pretend it isn’t, but that’s a silly lie. It’s absolutely too much, yet somehow we are still all doing it.

Often I am not in the moment, noticing my thoughts drifting as I sit where I am like a zombie, my mental eye glazed over and somewhere far away.