Avoidance is Self Care

I have thankfully been very busy the last three days. I taught morning class in Burlington and a night class in Raleigh. This did not leave me much time to look at social media, or watch TV or read the news, which is the best thing I could do. I did stop in Carrboro between classes today and had lunch with my friends Jan and Deanna.

They feel the same way I do about Tuesday’s outcome and we avoided talking about it, until after lunch. As the subject just started coming up I stood up and said I had to go. I could have stayed another five minutes, but at this point I am not ready to handle those feelings.

So I just enjoyed my students, who also used my class as avoidance. It was nice to feel joy over winning a new game. I came home to sweet Shay. Ever the optimist, she wants to snuggle no matter what happened during the day. I am going to take her lead and just snuggle. No TV, no looking at the news on my phone. This is what self care looks like right now.