what a sleepy day. i stayed up too late last night and accidentally crossed that horrible little threshold where you can’t quite get to sleep because your body is starting to tell you to wake up. so you lay there frustrated, tossing and turning in the night, pushing away from the quiet demand to start a day you aren’t ready for yet. eventually managing to get just enough rest to spend the next day in a haze. that’s where i am now. i’m in the haze.
still, i somehow managed to get my steps in.
for about a month or so now i’ve been walking a minimum amount of steps per day. it’s nothing too impressive, but definitely a noticeable shift compared to the sedentary lifestyle that i’ve slowly grown accustomed to. that and i’ve been exercising, and genuinely trying to eat more. i even bought a scale. something that i’ve been too afraid to own for years. but there it is, taking up space on my bathroom floor. and here i am, placing all of myself onto it multiple times a day and reading that glowing number.
all of this is part of some desensitization therapy that i’ve been doing lately. well, it’s not quite desensitization. the added physical exertion is supposed to help my body release adrenaline naturally and in appropriate amounts throughout the day so that it doesn’t build up inside of me and get set off randomly like it usually does. then, in the exhausted resting periods in between, i’m supposed to practice inner safety techniques. the two together are meant to reset the inappropriate chemical releases in my brain.
so that’s what i’ve been doing. i exercise, and eat, and practice inner safety. i think, and feel, and allow. and i walk. and i walk. and i walk. building up a sense of strength that i haven’t known for a very long time. not just in my body, but in the belief that it can withstand the weight of anything pushing against it as it moves forward through the current. like a fog so thick you can feel it on your skin, or the pelting of heavy stones broken from a jagged boulder that i could never move without cutting my hands. the pieces seemingly become smaller and more rounded as they bounce off of me. but still, i walk, and i let them hit me. one by one.