Happily Mental

Enjoying some pretty good feelings this week!

I am sitting in a lovely Italian bistro- a glass of Argentinian Malbec at hand (hey I am in South America- of course, the wine is South American even if the food is Italian!) with my laptop open, writing. This alone feels like a miracle. I haven’t written anything outside of work stuff (and even that has been way more limited than it should be) for over a month but I have been thinking about my Mental Health.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s been an amazing month. A month of falling in love and being loved my an incredible human being. (Of course, I will be writing about that too!) I have written while falling in love before. When I was dating Roland and in the New Relationship Energy (NRE) phase of that relationship, I kept writing. I kept moving along. But in this relationship, I happily spent a lot more time hanging out with my guy, foregoing writing for connecting and amazing sex!

But, time for truth, it wasn’t the relationship that kept me from writing. In fact, it gave me so many things I could have been writing about. We didn’t even usually get together until close to 7 pm each evening, which left me PLENTY of time to write. What was stopping me was my mental health. I just didn’t feel like doing a lot of anything. Blah.