The ‘Rona Rut Six Months Later: Major Life Decisions and Painful Self-Awareness

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time Stamps:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">00:00 Congrats, you found the beginning of the episode. Yeehaw.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">01:55 Describing ‘Rona Rut: The Sequel and how it’s different than the first bout I had.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">02:50 My anxiety is up because I don’t have as many opportunities to practice dealing with it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">06:40 Now that I’m cruising on my new meds, I have more time and clarity to evaluate the way I’m living my life and boo, I ain’t feelin’ it. I’m struggling to merge New Elaine with Old Elaine.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">08:20 Setting better boundaries while working from home. Taking PTO for mental health</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">10:30 Self-care waves: dance, making MY OWN TACOS, cleaning up my shit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">12:56 Realizing I have a hard time letting go of items and THOUGHTS WOW.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">13:57 Update about if I’m moving or not and also how I’m making big life decisions and not beating them to death like I normally do.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">16:43 Existential crisis. What do I want to do with my life once the world opens up again?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">18:04 Before I was on the right meds, a lot of my time was spent trying to stay afloat. Now that I’m better, I can’t help but feel like I “wasted” so much time and have to somehow make up for it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">20:32 I’ve become really good at procrastinating on my creative projects and I’m both proud and sad.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">24:02 We all get into ruts, even when it isn’t 2020.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">25:53 My sick af outro mofos.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Howdy, Heifers! I talked about the ‘Rona Rut, (when you feel stuck and there hap