{"id":4012,"date":"2013-11-08T02:36:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2013-11-08T02:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:36:32","slug":"never-be-afraid-to-fall-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/never-be-afraid-to-fall-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Never be afraid to fall apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNever be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Rae Smith<\/p>\n

Ya know every now and then you just have to have that momentary break down\u2026that day when you break down and cry\u2026when you fall apart just a little bit\u2026it happens to the best of us, and it\u2019s OKAY!\u00a0 But you can\u2019t let it last.\u00a0 You can\u2019t let it overtake your life.\u00a0 You can\u2019t let it break you.<\/p>\n

My suggestion is this:\u00a0 Structure your falling apart time.\u00a0 When things become totally overwhelming and you feel like you can\u2019t go on a second more, do this:\u00a0 First I suggest trying to find a time when you can be home alone so you don\u2019t burden your family.\u00a0 Then give yourself say one hour to fall apart, have a good cry, bury your head in your pillow and scream, and curl up in the fetal position with your pillow and blanket and let it all out.\u00a0 But only for that one hour.\u00a0 Not a moment more.\u00a0 Set your alarm clock to ensure you don\u2019t go past your allotted time.\u00a0 Then go ahead and have your melt down.\u00a0 Get it all out.\u00a0 Then when the alarm clock goes off you jump up out of your bed, run to the sink and splash your face with ice cold water.\u00a0 Take a deep breath.\u00a0 Look at yourself in the mirror and put on your biggest smile.\u00a0 Then start fresh on the path to rebuilding yourself to the person you really want to be.\u00a0 Let the past go.\u00a0 Let the hurt and anger and sadness go.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Put it behind you and never look back.<\/p>\n

Life is precious and life is short.\u00a0 Sure there will be times when it is hard and when you feel like you can\u2019t take it anymore.\u00a0 But the fact is that you can.\u00a0 You truly can.\u00a0 So like I said, schedule your falling apart session when it becomes truly obvious that you need it (hopefully these sessions aren\u2019t needed all that often as we all know that crying only makes you look horrible the next day\u2026so keep it for those truly necessary times in your life :). )\u00a0 Then have your momentary melt down.\u00a0 Then pick up, take that deep breath, and go forward – renewed and refreshed and ready to begin again.<\/p>\n

Believe that things will get better.\u00a0 They really truly will.\u00a0 You just have to keep moving forward, one foot in front of the other.\u00a0 Give life a chance to show you how amazing it can really be.\u00a0 And remember that the best way to create an amazing future is to believe that it is waiting for you to arrive.<\/p>\n

Have an incredible weekend everyone.\u00a0 Make the most of each moment.\u00a0 And don\u2019t forget to hug your loved ones and tell them how much they mean to you \u2013 after all, doing that might just save them from needing to schedule their own falling apart session\u2026you never know.<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNever be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.\u201d \u2013 Rae Smith Ya know every now and then you just have to have that momentary break down\u2026that day when you break down and cry\u2026when you fall apart just a little bit\u2026it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1021,697,368,2646,902,2649,2648,1735,1966,2652,178,2644,2653,2655,55,180,231,454,103,464,104,35,2654,77,2384,692,1746,2647,896,407,2650,153,2657,2645,2656,2660,2659,1662,2651,519,112,2658,81,78],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazing","tag-anger","tag-believe","tag-break-down","tag-breath","tag-bury-your-head","tag-cant-go-on","tag-cry","tag-crying","tag-curl-up","tag-faith","tag-fall-apart","tag-fetal-position","tag-get-it-out","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-hope","tag-hug","tag-hurt","tag-joy","tag-let-go","tag-love","tag-melt-down","tag-moment","tag-motivated","tag-opportunity","tag-optimistic","tag-overtake","tag-overwhelm","tag-overwhelmed","tag-pillow","tag-positive","tag-precious","tag-rebuild","tag-rebuilding","tag-refreshed","tag-renewed","tag-sadness","tag-scream","tag-self-esteem","tag-self-improvement","tag-short","tag-smile","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}