Puzzle Pieces

Birthday blues


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Have you ever felt sad on your birthday? Well, that's actually pretty normal. A person's birthday represents a positive milestone in life that can quite literally feel like a stone being launched at 100 miles per hour straight for their head. This can be for many reasons...growing up, anxiety about the future, not fulfilling life goals at the same pace as others, expectations not being met, having a memory from this day in the past, or something else. How can you change the Birthday Blues to not be so....blue? In this episode I share some of my own thoughts during my birthday this past week, and how I acknowledged my initial feelings first before changing them to have a more optimistic outlook. Do you have a specific date approaching that you allow to hit you like a stone, or will you acknowledge it as a harmless milestone and simply continue on?

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Puzzle PiecesBy Shelby Bates