Oh Cathy, you do sound down. How can we put a positive spin on this? Coaching is always to your advantage. It is focussed on you, and your situation. Take advantage of every tiny bit of coaching you can get. Is there any other help available through your EAP Program? Grab whatever you can. Are there more personal things you can do for stress relief--meditation, herbal teas, yoga classes--not alcohol and gambling, although we know what fun they can be. Plesurable physical activity--not physical work, unless that gives you pleasure-can be a real help. Why do you think I bike? I certainly found some degree of peace in music, but I really homed-in on the Solitudes line of stress reducing nature related music. Still use them almost every day. The Morning Pages were a tremendous help for a certain period in my life. You have described how you have a short period every morning when you are by yourself and over your coffee(?) checkyour e-mail etc. This can be a kind of meditation, and a time to prepare yourself emotionally for your day--it can be an important internal shifting of gears. Do you have the opportunity for a gear-shifting process after your day at work?
What I'm saying is that this is the perfect time to focus on you. You have to try to train yourself to put yourself first for, at least, part of every day.
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