do you also wear a lot of "hats"?
Most of us wear many different "hats" every day; Many roles we need to fulfill for many people who want something from us. We are expected to deliver both at work, in the family, and to our partner and friends.
These are many arenas. And if you change direction in life, either personally or professionally, you put on additional hats.
My personal life has taken me in many directions. And my professional life has done the same - and along the way, I've stumbled over my own hats due to stress, from running too fast, both figuratively and literally, and experiencing accidents, incidents and fractures.
After an evaluation and then diagnosis as a chronic pain patient, and with the Chief Physician at the Pain Clinic at the University Hospital having only epilepsy medication or mindfulness to choose from, I chose mindfulness, and that became life-changing.
I subsequently changed my life completely, and furthered my education, and am now completely out of the treatment system and no longer a chronic pain patient.
I have also figured it out now:
In my view, a healthy cycle determines your well-being and balance, no matter where you are in life.
For example, I am Mette first, then a mother, and then comes work. In that order;
If I am not Mette first and do the things that are right and important to me, I cannot be the mother I want to be for my two boys. My work is important because it helps make me Mette, and therefore the circuit works.
I prioritize my time and energy relentlessly. It hasn't always been this way. Like many others, I have suffered from "considerationitis", or "concern inflammation" and made myself available for and tried to live up to many peoples' expectations and many things expected.
But the cycle works now because I take my own medicine, have found my inner leadership, and use my own tools, which I share as much as possible with others as well.
I still wear many hats every day. You surely do too. You must not stumble over them.
Since my start in 2014, my main area has been to help people who have stumbled due to stress and anxiety to come to the surface so they could breathe.
With more than 6,000 individual conversations and almost the same themes in the chair every day, I have now set myself a new goal:
Fewer people should be helped just to be able to breathe. More should instead fly freely.
That's why I have, among other things, written the critically acclaimed stress book, "The Frog in the Pot," created the course "Stress Help 2.0," and a Mini-Course in Anxiety - and have a new book on the way. (all of which are currently only in Danish).