Michael Meister Counseling LPC

Coping thoughts

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A wonderful passage from Alice and Wonderland about self love. Do you love me? Asked Alice. No, I don't love you! Answered the White Rabbit. Alice frowned her forehead and put her hands together as she did whenever she felt injured.... You see that? He twisted the White Rabbit. Now you're going to start asking yourself what makes you so imperfect and what you did wrong so I can't love you at least a little. You know, this is why I can't love you. You won't always be loved Alice, there will be days when others will be tired and bored with life, have their heads in the clouds and hurt you. Because people are like that, somehow they always end up hurting each other's feelings, either out of carelessness, incomprehension or conflict with themselves. If you don't love yourself, at least a little, if you don't create a battleship of self-love and happiness around your Heart, the weak dissabers caused by others will become lethal and destroy you. The first time I saw you I made a deal with myself: I will avoid loving you until you learn to love yourself!" (Lewis Carrol: Alice in wonderland)

Toxic positivity takes many forms. It can be a friend who dismisses your feelings, a coworker telling you to look on the bright side, or even a meme telling you to just change your outlook as though a simple shift in perspective can fix whatever you’re going through.

Anxiety struggles are real. What one feels and what others may see are not always congruent.