Louise Thompson

whatever you can you know a good base level of mental health to get you through this next bit what do you need in place to ensure that happens it's a very good question because I'm living through it kind of at the moment um I think that as I started to get better so sort of like three years postpartum I sort of like rebounded back into this place where I was in sort of turbo um

distract mode so constantly trying to grow something and achieve something and be busy or grow my team or have you know deeper conversations and like looking for distraction everywhere ultimately and becoming almost feeling quite trapped because I used to do a lot of like physical exercise and movement and not being able to really do that because anytime I do that now I have

awful like symptoms and and I sort of start bleeding and stuff it's not very nice so that's felt really hard but I've like I've really crammed the mental stimulation in whereas with this process I've felt really fatigued and I actually have just I've like relinquished that like need for speed basically like I've actually just gone you know what

If I have to just cancel all my important or exciting things for January, that's okay.

Oh, my God, yeah.

Yeah.

And, like, even if that rolls a little bit into February, I'm like, what do I actually... Who cares if you do it for a year?

Who cares?

Like, I've been through so much, enough to, like, last a lifetime.

Yes.

That I don't need any more badges.

Gosh, I feel better knowing that you also have the same struggles.

In January, it's just this constant battle of like, but do I need to have a really solid start to the year?

No.

Fuck it.

I don't.

I can literally just coast and be irrelevant and insignificant.

I just want to be an ant for like a little bit.

We all are anyway.

Yes.