We know voices in our head direct the traffic of our decision-making, and over time, the power of cumulative establishes ruts in our lives that may or not be productive. If you grew up with undue criticism, over time you may be super hard on yourself, driving--or trying to drive--in the rut of perfectionism. Perhaps it is easier to be in everyone's business but your own, as the rigor and discomfort of self-examination are too quiet, too risky. Or when all else fails, eating becomes the escape route, and cumulative exerts itself in pounds and misery.
VAC (for vacuum): any way we overcompensate with trying to make our setting perfect rather than putting that energy into our relationships
YAK (for talking): paying attention to how everyone else should live to avoid our own heart and pain
SNAK (for eating): finding comfort in food that puts us over the limit in weight and health
Are you participating anywhere in the Vac, Yak, or Snak Syndrome? Do you secretly want out of it? Join us in our Tortoise Training...we are on a journey that ever so reliably will feed our strength, corral those voices in our head into productive mode, and accumulate joy in our lives.
Want to enjoy The Tortoise and the Hare again? Visit our Tortoise Training blog where, over time, we will collect our ideas for feeding our strength. That beloved story from Aesop is there. Keep pondering...
