Implementation Week
Welcome to implementation week. I thought this was my week to break from thinking about my High Functioning Anxiety. So you might be asking yourself, Ok, Nancy, what is implementation week?" Good grief.
As a reminder, change happens in small steps and giving yourself a week to implement is one of the most self-loyal things you can do.
The intention of this week is for you to get a chance to implement what you have been learning by practicing self-loyalty in your day-to-day life.
It is an act of self-loyalty to catch up or re-listen to past lessons.
It is an act of self-loyalty to take a few days off from thinking about self-loyalty.
It is an act of self-loyalty to listen to the Ask Nancy Jane episodes because you haven't had time.
It is an act of self-loyalty to start implementing what you have been learning in your real life.
The beauty of self-loyalty only you can decide—there is no right way to spend implementation week:)
If you want more structure on how to piece all these ideas together, here is a tangible action step. pick one of the exercises I talked about to acknowledge your feelings in week one and practice trying it throughout the week.
As a reminder, we talked about the I should be happy challenge, which is simply to add and fill in the rest of the story. I should be happy I have a great house. I have a great house, and sometimes it's hard to do all the work to keep it up.
The second one is the worst case scenario game, this is based on the TV show, This Is Us, where you take a situation... You take it all the way through to the worst-case scenario, and then the mere exercise simply standing in front of the mirror and checking in with yourself and making eye contact with yourself, or you can pick one or two of the mindsets that keep us from acknowledging our feelings and catch how many times you engage in it, so to refresh, we talked about pain versus suffering, how we all have pain, but that doesn't mean we need to suffer, how will engage in chasing happy, which means looking for the thing at the end of the day that'll make us happy rather than really acknowledging our feelings and lastly, wallowing, allowing ourselves time to engage in... Wallowing. A good wallow is a positive thing.
Okay. I hope you have a great week. If you have any questions, let me know via the ask the Nancy Jane form in the portal, and I'll happily answer them, but I'll be back in your ears in a few days, as we start the body theme of spiral to take care. Talk to you then.