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hello! i post about anything personal growth & self-discovery related 🌱

ᝰ. i also create digital templates to help improve your life! templates: http://templates.offlinegrowth.online/all

i’m happy to have you here! ♥️

🌷 let’s grow together 🌷

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Message from Anxiety the Bunny 🐇 :

Anxiety can make you feel like you’re losing control 😵‍💫 but it’s your body’s way of saying, “I’m scared, please keep me safe.”

Take a deep breath. You’re okay, you’re just trying to protect yourself.

Learning to understand your anxiety is the first step to calming it.

You’re invited to the Anxiety Graveyard 🪦

Let your anxiety to rest ⚰️

If you need a space to let your anxiety to rest, my anxiety graveyard 🪦 template is a hauntingly comforting space where your anxious thoughts come to rest. Learn more here 🌟

It’s a space for you to release and process anxious thoughts.

Are you coming in?

The Anxiety Graveyard Template 🪦

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I daydream too much. It’s affecting my life.

I’ve tried to stop daydreaming, but I failed.

🪞 Confession: I daydream. A lot.

I've always been a daydreamer since I was young. It helps me to stay introspective and creative.

Sometimes my daydreams feel like a movie playing inside my head... with characters, plots, and entire worlds I’ve built over the years. It happens when I’m walking, trying to focus, or lying in bed trying to sleep.

I must say, I have an overactive mind and I'm constantly thinking about everything all at once.

At first, I thought my daydreams were harmless. But over time, my daydreaming started to interfere with my life.

I’d lose hours without realising it. Tasks would pile up. I was half-absorbed in another reality.

And eventually, I started asking myself the question many of you might be asking too:

“Why do I daydream so much? Is it normal? And how do I stop?”

Daydreaming itself isn’t bad.

But when it becomes excessive, overwhelming, and disruptive, it crosses into what’s called maladaptive daydreaming.

Maladaptive daydreaming is when your inner world feels more real and rewarding than your actual life. It’s immersive, vivid, and often triggered by music, something you saw, or strong emotions. While it provides comfort, it can also lead to disconnection with the real world and procrastination.

How to stop daydreaming too much? And why is it so hard?

For me (and maybe you, too), daydreaming is a coping mechanism. It’s an escape from stress, loneliness, or emotional pain. When reality felt too heavy, I could step into a world where I had control, where the story always went the way I wanted.

And that’s why it’s so hard to stop. It’s not just a “bad habit”! It’s comfort, safety, even joy.

“I tried to stop, but I failed”

I felt like I was wasting my time, my life. I wanted to stop. But it's hard, and I blamed myself for failing at something as simple as “not daydreaming”.

Maybe you’ve felt this too? That frustration of trying to fight your own mind.

The shift: Working with daydreaming, not against it.

One day, I realised something: maybe the point isn’t to stop daydreaming altogether. Maybe the point is to understand it! And then learn how to live with it in a healthier way.

So instead of fighting, I started to educate myself on maladaptive daydreaming and experimenting with small changes in my life. For example, keeping notes of my daydream patterns, so I could recognise my triggers, and using hobbies to channel my imagination.

Slowly, it shifted from being a force that controlled me into something I could manage.

Daydreaming doesn’t make me broken. It makes me human. It makes me me.

The goal isn’t to erase this part of myself, it’s to make peace with it.

Yes, maladaptive daydreaming is bad, but adaptive daydreaming isn't.

Out of this journey, I created something for myself: a daydreaming template.

At first, it was just a way to organise my thoughts and note down insights about maladaptive daydreaming.

Over time, it turned into something more structured. Something I realised could help others too.

That’s how my "Making Peace with Maladaptive Daydreaming Template" was born.

💡It features:

⭐️ A daydream log to help you observe and track your daydreaming patterns

⭐️ Guided reflective prompts to help you explore your daydreams and better understand yourself

⭐️ Simple steps to build a daydreaming toolkit that helps you cope in healthier ways

⭐️ Helpful insights and practical strategies for managing maladaptive daydreaming

If you’ve ever felt trapped in your daydreams, I want you to know you’re not alone. You don’t need to erase this part of yourself to heal. Understanding yourself is healing.

And if you’d like a gentle guide to start, my template is here for you. I hope it helps you! Learn more about my template or download it here

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Franz Kafka, 1912

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6 things the animated film “Ne Zha 2” taught us about life.