Phetasy News - What Nourishes You?
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It’s only taken me ten years of sobriety to recognize it—but my media diet and my literal diet are deeply interconnected in ways I’m only starting to observe. When I go down some rabbit hole of doom online, or allow myself to get too invested in a news cycle, it inevitably results in stagnation and binging. Binging on bad media almost always leads to binging candy (my weakness) or pizza (my desired last meal). My mind feels like crap and then my body follows suit and it quickly becomes a vicious cycle. It’s not like I allow myself to neglect my responsibilities and fall into depression or morbid obesity—it’s more insidious. I’ll just be…off.
I strive to put out content that is nourishing—either thought-provoking or funny or some combination of both—and that means I need to make sure I am disciplined about my own mental and physical diet. Otherwise it can get real dark, real fast. As my friend, Jim Burr, often reminds me when it comes to food and media, “You can’t consume more than you put out.”
It might be counterintuitive for a month in which there is a whole holiday to binge-eating food but nourishment is my word for November. What feeds your soul? Your intellect? Your body? Your mind? How are you exercising that physical and creative energy? Is it a walk in nature? Is it quality time with your child? Playing an instrument? Painting? Traveling? Journaling?
As we barrel into the end of the year, the holidays, and these uncertain times—how do you stay to the light? I look forward to hearing from you—I always love and need tips for how to stay sane. It’s a challenge, and as someone told me long ago at a meeting, “You’re probably doing better than you think you are.”
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I guess there are three things which nourish me - nutrition/exercise, AA meetings, and my faith. I don't get to as many meetings as I once did, but every time I go I feel nourished and refreshed afterwards. There's something about being in a room full of people just like me - living day to day with an incurable disease while working to become a better version of ourselves - that's comforting and nourishing to my mind. It's an important reminder that things in the world, all of which are outside of my control, really aren't all that important. Practicing my faith nourishes my spirit. It reminds me that I'm not in control, and the more I try to be in control the more unhappy or "stuck" I can feel. A daily practice of surrender to a power greater than myself nourishes my spirit. Being intentional about what I put in my body and getting some daily exercise for this amazing machine of mine nourishes my physical self.
Body, mind, and spirit. Every day.