I’ve been in a grumpy mood this week.
I picked up on it over the weekend and I couldn’t shake it.
Nothing terrible has happened.
Work-load isn’t stressful.
Home life is good.
"What the heck is wrong with me?!"
Stop.
Or at least that’s what I did, because I saw what was going on: I was judging myself.
So, I stopped, took a few deep breaths with my eyes closed and just allowed myself to be grumpy.
I realized it wasn’t the grumpiness that was the problem (it could be hormonal or just a wrong side of the bed kind-of-day) it was that I was beating myself up for it.
I was thinking "I shouldn’t be feeling this way".
I was judging my grumpiness as being wrong.
And THIS was what was actually causing my grumpiness to stick around longer and harder.
As soon as I simply allowed the grumpiness to be there and stopped judging it, I felt immediately lighter. My day made a huge turn around and I felt more present and grateful for the happenings.
Self-judgement always makes things exponentially worse.
It’s ok to have bad days. It’s not ok to think you are wrong because of it.
If you are having a bad day or week, I give you permission to just let it be what it is.
