Story to tell....Veronique

I started writing this post a few weeks ago, but today as I was 'battling' with this ball in my stomach caused by anxiety, I found the inspiration that I was looking for to complete writing it. - I was reading this blog post by Clara Hughes a few weeks ago. Clara Hugues who is the face of the Bell Let's Talk campaign on Mental Health and Illness, was telling us that she needed to take a break. After some physical health problems and the Bell Let's talk campaign, she was taking a step back from all of it, to deal with a relapse into depression. We all know Clara for her big smile, upbeat personally, ambassador for Mental Health and other amazing organization, Olympic Medalist on multiple occasions and just tremandous athlete. She has had struggles with mental illness since her young age. It's hard to believe coming from at person who we would have all thought was a rock and really un-breakable, before reading about it and hearing her talk about it. It goes to ...

I got caught today, in the drama wheel. I was faced with a situation that I had seen before, with an individual that I knew what prompt for creating drama but I still walked into the trapped. I activated myself and started working towards resolving the situation, with a lot of stress and anxiety. It took almost 4 hours of my day, and I ended up spending a lot of time spinning my wheels, trying to come out with a solution. In the end, it probably wasn't necessary and would have probably ended with the same result if I didn't get involved and didn't stress out about it. After everything was done, the stress started to evaporate, leaving behind a mix of emotions and leaving me in tears. I had feelings of frustration because the person who started the "crisis" didn't need to do so. Frustration because all the people involved were trying to do the right thing and in the end, there wasn't much more that could be done. Frustration because I took everyth...