A Reminder for the Days When You Feel All Over the Place.

Elephant Journal
The Daily Mindful
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3 min readJul 12, 2022

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I’ve been feeling so all over the place lately.

I can’t ground myself or center properly. And I feel like I can’t get into a proper routine, which for me (someone who thrives on structure and routine), is difficult.

I moved last week and it feels like I have so much to do.

It feels like I have to organize all parts of my life, and in addition to all of the physical things I need to arrange and figure out, I have to work…and figure out how to work in a new time zone (I was so used to my routine in the last one!).

And…it’s summer and beautiful outside and I have the cutest yellow lab who wants to cuddle with me here!

This is taking some time to adjust to, and I’m struggling with balancing everything.

I am doing my best though.

I think a large part of it is that I feel like I lack control at the moment. I can’t force myself to feel settled and I can’t force everything to fit the way that would feel nicest to me — or on my timeline.

And I have a tendency to be a control freak. I know it’s fruitless because I’ve learned over and over how little control we actually have over anything in life, but a part of me still wants to have my grippy hands…

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