Today and every day, please remember that anxious obsession is a trauma response and not actually going to solve any of your problems (or the world's).
As I continue to acclimate to SubStack this post on hyper vigilance struck me as a valuable resource. When I began writing on Twitter years ago I experienced a sort of hyper vigilance. For some people hyper vigilance is preferable to the absence of vigilance but it cannot serve a higher purpose and leads to impatience and burnout. What reasonable person can remain patient with the world of Twitter?
So I turned to SubStack because I had no desire to feed my own hyper vigilance (an occupational hazard of Moms and Grandmas) or that of others. If I was going to o continue to write at all I set out to do so with readers who also wanted to move away from hyper vigilance and toward something better. As a writer and a musician of sorts the world which could be created together was the important thing. Writers need readers like musicians need listeners.
So here I find myself - still perhaps too hyper vigilant - but learning to relax into a kind of writing I can live with.
As I continue to acclimate to SubStack this post on hyper vigilance struck me as a valuable resource. When I began writing on Twitter years ago I experienced a sort of hyper vigilance. For some people hyper vigilance is preferable to the absence of vigilance but it cannot serve a higher purpose and leads to impatience and burnout. What reasonable person can remain patient with the world of Twitter?
So I turned to SubStack because I had no desire to feed my own hyper vigilance (an occupational hazard of Moms and Grandmas) or that of others. If I was going to o continue to write at all I set out to do so with readers who also wanted to move away from hyper vigilance and toward something better. As a writer and a musician of sorts the world which could be created together was the important thing. Writers need readers like musicians need listeners.
So here I find myself - still perhaps too hyper vigilant - but learning to relax into a kind of writing I can live with.
Thank you for this.