An Over-Thinkers Perspective

23/03/2022

It's so easy to neglect yourself and there is so much stigma about therapy. But you know... It's hard - and it's still hard to this day... But I'm so glad I walked down this path. If we're ill, most of us will probably just take some paracetamol and get on with our day (that's me to a t) but after a while if the illness persists, we start to worry. What if it's this? what if it's that - then we consult google and find out we have 24 hours to live then FINALY go to the dr's or hospital to try and fix what's wrong.

Same with injuries, we have something a bit sore, we leave it for a bit - but when it gets worse, we go to the hospital or physio - but the point is eventually when we see this noticeable problem growing - We Get It Sorted.

Therapy is the same man. Just like our bodies and our health our brains need a checkup as well ... why do we take such good care of our physical health but disregard the mental - why are we so ashamed to talk about it. You wouldn't feel embarrased saying I have a broken bone or a fractured something. But when we talk about mental health - we shy away, wonder what people will say, will they judge?

F**k them.

That's their problem not yours. If you broke your leg or something and ended up in a wheelchair then someone laughed at you - how would that be percieved?

Food for thought.

Anyway I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week. The podcast should be back up and running in a couple of weeks so we'll say aiming for May! I'll have plenty to rant, I mean talk about.

20/03/2022

Thank you to Rhythmical Mike and Project Hoop for having me on the Taster Sessions Podcast - we spoke about various topics using the Mal Paper questions to empower and the Sussed Card Games since 2011 questions which were very insightful - lot of fun and deffo worth a watch! go check the episode out on youtube now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd4GHBgdcoY&t=10s

This week we taste a new card game Mal Paper between our long term loved card game sussed!He’s the Rhythmical Mike, and RoRo’s the hula hooping delight - we ...

09/03/2022

Today we're talking about the pressure we put on ourselves, that higher standard we want to achieve, the amount of commitments we've made etc.

I'm really bad for this but I alwasy take on way too much that I can handle, and I'm now at a phase where I'm seeing what to persue and what to shelve because it can't all be carried. I'll end up becoming so scatty that I can't do anything as I'll be like sitting down to do one job on my list of things and my brain will go 'hang on you still haven't done any of these things you needed to do' and then I stress myself out to the point when I either do none of it, or I do bits of everything to a pretty low standard - and I'm not about half measures.

There are still things mulling around in my head that I'm thinking - I've not written enough music lately, we've not released any music in years, you wanted to write a catalogue of music for media, have you recorded this weeks podcast etc etc. But now I'm training my mind to think differently, I'm managing the most important things at a time (right now it's the new enterprise and this podcast) then I make time for music, as for releasing - it will come in time. The only person that's breathing down my neck is myself.

The more pressure we put on ourselves, we'll see ourselves becoming more anxious, stressed, erratic and generaly not where we need or want to be. Maybe have a look at what you've told yourself you're going to commit to and be honest. Does it all have to be done now? We spoke previously about consistency and pateince. Give yourself time, you'll get round to it all (I'm mostly speaking to myself here).

Go check out this weeks podcast and share it with a mate, your mum, your dog or your pet goldfish.