How to turn your bad day around

Full day on, no proper break to rest and breath or gather thoughts, period pain (you know the time to rest - reflect as we should in our reflective Phrase but we are living in a society who doesn't and won't support this), toddler needs support in the nursery, dinner is not cooked, house is a mess, delivery guy lost your parcel, angry husband is coming back from work (that has absolutely no space to hear you moan as he himself needs support - and that's OK! ), there is just no space for calming wave of fresh air as you have to leave for work in few minutes- no time for yoga or even 5 minutes in peace with coffee and breath.

As i write this I am entering Sainsburys - my transition and a place to be next 5 hours, house full of tight tasks, fake lights, and angry customers, who - like me had a countless interactions, energetic exchange, responsibilities and heaviness.

Highly sensitive empath heaven of a day 😏

Typically I would label it as a bad day - I would have this heavy feeling on my chest - "jest get me to bed", saying loudly to everyone that my day was sooo soo bad... But I've decided to try to turn this around today and end this pattern of those bad days that leave me feeling like bleee, why to wait till I go to sleep...

What helped a lot was:

• Awareness of putting a label on this day.

• Putting people pleasing shoes back on the shelf - other adults are responsible for their emotions, I don't have to fix everyone.

• Putting a stop button on the thoughts that won't support me in this moment - thinking it's been a bad day I give a signal to my brain that that's what I want to focus on so he actively will look for bad things to support my thinking.

• Deciding that the minute I will walk to work I won't give my bad day to other people, I'm not talking about fake positivity here but more of cutting the cord of the day that already is in the past and focusing on next 5 hours (instead of going to sleep - reset) because as much as I don't want others to vomit their day on me I don't want to it to someone else.

• Giving myself a pat on the back - I made it, it's OK to feel this way. Not pushing anything away.

• Counting my blessings - sounds silly sometimes but the power of gratitude is always mind blowing.

• Treating myself to something nice on my break.

• Writing about it here now, I had no one to talk to today about it so this have been my safe space to do brain dump, journal works good too if there is time.

• Energy protection Practice and energetic cord cutting has been extremely helpful too (to dig in more I've used book by Oliver Nino - spiritual activator but I'm sure you can find tonnes of free resources online.) I've been sceptical too, but it's been a life changer.

Anyway, I'm sharing if anyone is tired of getting into this vicious circle of labeling everything and being stuck in those bad days - I know some days cannot be easily seen differently no matter what we do, but if we can help ourselves just a tiny bit, I think it's worth it.

Or... As my toddler said - make Smoothie Mum, everything will be better with smoothie 😂 and he's not wrong.

Ah and I will definitely sit down for 5 minutes to do my mindful art practice just when I get home, mindful art practice will melt it all away.