I thought it might be kind of cool to start a trend of what I’m doing in preparation for the weekend to help ‘fill my cup’. By this, I mean giving myself energy, replenishing my will to live, and just generally making myself feel more human. The old saying ‘you can’t pour from an empty cup’ makes a hell of a lot of sense to me, but learning ways to fill my cup has not come so easily.

I struggle with depression and anxiety (doesn’t everyone though?), and I find when I’m really, really down, it’s hard to pull myself back up to normal. It’s a bit like I’m drowning, and I need some kind of life jacket or something just to get to baseline- to break the surface of the water. I’m not talking about flying through the sky in happiness here- that’s expecting way too much at those kinds of moments. I’m just talking about feeling like I can brush my teeth, feed myself, go to work. Usual things.

So, in an attempt to help myself learn more about what makes me feel happy and fulfilled and what ‘fills my cup’, I want to do something once a week to feel like I’m more myself. I’m going to post it on Fridays because it has good alliteration, and I’m a sucker for good alliteration.

SO. Today? I lay in bed for about an hour with a silly game on my phone and my dog. I drifted in and out of sleep, and I just enjoyed the cosiness of it. The sun way streaming in through the window and I felt like I was a little lizard on a rock. It was good.

How do you fill your cup?

Happy cup-filling

-Madame Starbeam