How to Comfort Yourself When Life Is Hard Every Day | #114

When life feels hard every single day, it’s easy to get pulled into the “this sucks” spiral. In Daily Dose #114, Dawn Super shares a simple mindset shift: give yourself comfort while you’re stuck in the suck. It’s not toxic positivity - it’s self-respect.

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When every day is hard, you need to find grace and comfort along the way.

This video is for anyone living a challenging life on a daily basis for an extended period of time.

This is the daily dose of Dawn at dawn. videos designed to expand your thinking.

Have you ever hurt your foot and you limp along, walk on your heel and hop? You don't do that because it's good for your foot. You do it because you don't have a choice. Your foot isn't functioning normally and it just won't cooperate.

It helps me so much to make that distinction. Why? Because when every single day of your life has you limping, it can be easy to get depressed about that.

One of the best things I ever did for myself was to stop thinking about my suffering. Does that make the suffering go away? Well, kind of. Yeah. Because the brain can only pay attention to so many things at the same time.

Like when you have a headache and then you stub your toe, you forget you have a headache, even if it's just temporarily. This also happens with good stuff, not just stubbed toes.

I can go long periods of time without thinking about the fact that I have narcolepsy. Even though I have it every day, every second, it's not always making noise.

Does it suck? Absolutely. But focusing on the suck kind of makes it suck more. And I found the more I leaned into how much it sucked, the more it sucked what I had left to give.

And that applies to anything that sucks, not just narcolepsy.

And that doesn't mean that if I don't think about it sucking, that I don't have it, that I'm not affected by it. It sucks. Full stop.

But if I wallow in that, it takes more from me than if I feel strong about it. If that makes sense.

It's not toxic positivity to give yourself a hug while you're stuck in the suck to get your fuzzy things that bring you comfort.

This is my jacket. Like it's like a fuzzy jacket because I deserve to feel comfort even though I am uncomfortable in other ways. I can give myself comfort in some ways.

And when you're going through hard things and you comfort yourself, you feel comforted and that's a good thing.

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