I saw this the other day and agreed so whole-heartedly with it that I knew I had to write about it.

This week has felt long (and it’s only Thursday).  A seemingly endless round of clients and supervisions and emails and school drop-offs/pick-ups and, today, a poorly eldest daughter.  The stress of managing the online conversation on my last blog post.  I was in London all day on Wednesday and I’m back down there again on Saturday for the National Council for Hypnotherapy annual conference.  Plus there was the small matter of my hospital appointment on Tuesday…

…I was there for four hours in total, most of it spent in the waiting room.  There was an examination, an ultrasound scan and then a consultation to discuss the results.

Thankfully, it was good news.  The lumps are harmless cysts, and there is nothing more sinister going on underneath.  Yay!

But I’m tired.  The stresses of the last three months are beginning to take their toll, and every part of me is tired.  The mummy, the therapist, the wife, the friend, the daughter, the blogger… we’re all tired.

I know it won’t last long though.

Since finding out for sure that I have nothing to worry about health-wise, I’ve allowed a tiny part of the fog to lift.  I’m beginning to look for the sunshine and redirect my view towards the future.  I feel like I can think about making plans again, and I’m on a mission to get some ‘things-to-look-forward-to’ in the diary.  I’m slowly beginning to let myself start to re-connect with people.

It feels good.

I know that many of you are tired too.  All the parts of you that have different roles to play and feel stretched in every direction possible on a daily (or even minute-by-minute) basis.  And all you want to do is be by yourself and sleep.  Am I right?

Just be sure to recognise that it’s a choice, like everything else we do and think and feel.  You can choose to focus on the cloud, and the rain that it brings, and hunker down under your protective umbrella trying to keep yourself dry.

Or you can choose to look for the light, and turn yourself towards it and stretch upwards and grow. If I’ve learnt anything from these last few months it’s how important it is to surround yourself with people and things you love.  For me, they are the sunshine that will dissolve the fog completely.

It’ll take time, but it will get brighter.

It will for you too.