Self talk can be extremely valuable, C_L. You have to know that this thing you tell yourself is utter bullshit. You're full of worth. To your husband, to your family, to your pets, to yourself. Wear a rubber band and snap it on your wrist whenever you start telling yourself this crap. Develop a list of 5 things that give your life meaning. Cultivate that list. Don't bullshit yourself---pick the 5 things that really do make you feel better about yourself. Every time you start feeling or telling yourself that you're worthless or talentless, snap that rubber band and list those things. Sounds silly, but it works if you do it. No one is going to be harder on yourself than you. No one. Don't let that bitch get the best of you!
Maybe you just haven't found your thing yet? You're about to set out on a new journey in a new place. One of the most impactful and fulfilling things I've done in my life is volunteering with an Animal Rescue. I went to adoption events, fostered dogs, went and walked dogs to give them a break from their kennels, took sick pups to the vet, went and visited prospective adoptive families, matched dogs with their forever families. I know a woman who has two Golden Retrievers who got involved with a program that provides pets for special needs students for pet therapy. She takes her dogs to a school for special needs kids and helps them in various ways. Maybe there will be some charity opportunities with your new church that will help you connect with your new community. I think if you do enough things, you'll find your passion.
Maybe a therapist? You like to get in the nitty gritty with people, I know that.
Maybe you just haven't found your thing yet? You're about to set out on a new journey in a new place. One of the most impactful and fulfilling things I've done in my life is volunteering with an Animal Rescue. I went to adoption events, fostered dogs, went and walked dogs to give them a break from their kennels, took sick pups to the vet, went and visited prospective adoptive families, matched dogs with their forever families. I know a woman who has two Golden Retrievers who got involved with a program that provides pets for special needs students for pet therapy. She takes her dogs to a school for special needs kids and helps them in various ways. Maybe there will be some charity opportunities with your new church that will help you connect with your new community. I think if you do enough things, you'll find your passion.
Maybe a therapist? You like to get in the nitty gritty with people, I know that.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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