3 Ways to Protect Your Peace, Fiercely
Even those choosing to live under rocks can’t deny that there’s some depressing, frustrating, heartbreaking, traumatic ish happening on the daily. I’m not here to get into all of that. I simply don’t have the answers. I like to speak on what I know for certain. Which is usually when my masters from the school of hard knocks will come out.
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What I do know for sure is that trauma leaves behind wounds. I know that being fed negativity on every medium available will literally steal your joy. I know that your internal peace, mental health and self-esteem are critical when under attack. & I know that I can shed a little light on some practices you can start today to do your best to stay afloat.
1. Limit your social media intake – Seems pretty self-explanatory? Doesn’t it? Well, it’s actually pretty freaking hard. I struggle with this at times myself. Social media is awesome. I love it. I really do but…I just don’t need to know what everyone else is thinking at every given moment. Ignorance is at an all-time high and that argument under a #BLACKLIVESMATTER post, with a stranger about why you and your family deserve as much as they do to L I V E is wasted energy.
2. Don’t watch the news – I don’t watch TV. At all. So I may be a bit biased but am I lying when I say 99.9% of it is just crap? If something serious happens, you’ll know. When I meet up with friends I get the updates and they always suck. “Hey, did you hear about that baby girl that got killed last night? Did you hear about that shooting down the road?” -_- No, no I didn't. Thank you so much for enlightening me. (INSERT SARCASM HERE). We can’t expect to stay positive, strong, unified & WOKE when we are being fed images of people that look like us being treated like animals to instill fear and support well-thought hidden agendas.
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3. Remain grateful af that you’re still here – I have a gratitude jar that I started when I was feeling superrrr craptacular. Odd time to start counting my blessings right? No. It was the perfect time. What we focus on EXPANDS!!! At the end of the day I would write one or a few things that I was grateful for and put them in an old piggy bank. Health, life, the change I found at the bottom of my purse…you can’t take the small things for granted, when 2 nights ago a little girl had to comfort her mother minutes after seeing a murder take place.
I don’t have the answers & I prefer not to add to the list of countless rants but I do know you must protect your peace, FIERCELY!
My brothers, kings...this one is for you. It's the least I could do.
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The Real by Danielle Smith