chelsea, what are your top tips for pulling yourself out of a Funkâąïž? i've been in such a weird/sad mood for the past few weeks and the tasks are piling up, but it's been so difficult to motivate myself to tidy or even work on hobbies. i would like to feel joy again!! and would love to benefit from a sliver of your wisdom
ugh anon i get you! i have an annoying answer, which is that i had friends over last weekend and we played three extremely heated rounds of uno right before they left and that sort of healed me. it's tough because when i'm in a Funk, usually the last thing i want to do is see people (or clean or work or do hobbies). but that is what consistently does work--seeing my friends and doing something that gets me out of my own brain for a while. it reminds me that there are other ways of existing in the world besides feeling Bad! and that there are people who make me feel happy and warm and loved and grateful to be here. humiliating.
runner-up is "doing something with your body" which u could interpret chaotically (hair dye. scissors.) or wholesomely (for me, right now, it's "dig in dirt" or "move rock." now that my back is FINALLY feeling better, i hope to return to "lift objects for an hour"). but again, something to get you Out of the brain and back into the world. a day trip! something a little scary or emotional or exciting!
and then the last one (which is admittedly kind of just avoidance but sometimes it works!!) is to find some media to hyperfixate on for a few days/weeks. everything else becomes less important than The Thing, and somehow that makes it easier to move through my normal life--doing the dishes is easy, course prep is easy, bc they're all just obstacles to me getting to sink back into The Thing. and when i'm in The Thing, i can't be in a funk! you can only be in one Thing at one time, that's the rule. the success of this one is really dependent on circumstances changing since you're not actually resolving any issues, you're just not looking at them for a while.






















