✨LET'S TALK MENTAL HEATH.✨
Hello, my little doves. I hope you're having a great start to 2023!
Mine has been quite challenging, not gonna lie.
Since the summer, I had to deal with my father's cancer coming back, my mother's heart failing and in the winter she spent a month at the hospital while dad was doing chemio. As I live in another country, taking care of them has been hard.
On top of that, I've been sick a lot recently, including COVID and I've been struggling with exhaustion and mental burn out.
I joined WP during the pandemic in 2020 and since then, I've been uploading consistently every week without miss. This past year has been harder, though and it took a toll on my writing. Still, I kept going, unable to stop because I never admit defeat.
Last week a girlfriend of mine shook me by the shoulders and said, "Sky, you need to breathe. You're drowning."
Was I?
It was so dark underwater that I just thought it was nighttime and the sun would rise soon. But when I broke the surface, I realised how wrong I was, and that I was starved of fresh oxygen and panting. I needed to breathe