Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:
After about a week of this, I'll probably invest in more cognitive reappraisal tools, like journaling and making a few if-then plans for the next crisis
but psych science suggests that if I do that *right now*, I'll probably just be spinning in anxiety instead of *actually* reprocessing
Cadence and timing matters for self-care! When you're an intellectualizer (which I suspect if you follow me you are), it's easy to want to chase the feeling of "productivity" even in recovery from events!