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So Valentine's Day is coming up, and for many of us,
we hate it, we dread it, we hide from it, ahh!
Others, we love it, we embrace it. Flowin' with the love to everybody yada yada. Love is in the air!
So stay tuned!
So Valentine's day is coming up. The day of love, it's so exciting. Or it's not and it's terrible and we hate it.
Right? And to be honest, sometimes I find that when holidays come up,
Christmas, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving, your birthday, it could be anything.
Right? A holiday, that is almost forced positivity. Everybody's like feel good, because everything on TV
is like spend your money, buy some cards, go to dinner, right? And we're then we're like ahh, it's too much
pressure and we crumble. Oh. And then we're just depressed and we're upset about it.
So we're like, damnit, that was my one shot this year for that holiday, I gotta wait a whole another 354 days before
that happens again. So, I've been doin' some thinking. Some deep Kati thinking.
I went out to lunch the other day, and I thought to myself 'cause I was having a really *** day.
We all have *** days right? You know those days where it's like [exhales] wahn wahn wahn. And you just don't wanna deal.
Sometimes, I'm like, just don't wanna deal. I'm tired. Right? So what do we do?
So I went out to lunch, I thought, "I'm gonna take myself out to lunch, that's right. That's what I'm gonna do."
And I decided I'm gonna be overly friendly to strangers. I know you're thinking, "Kati, you're a creep."
But that's not what I mean. I mean just when people, you come into the restaurant, "Oh hi Miss, would you like a table?"
"No I'd like to sit at the bar, thank you so much, you're so nice!" You just are overly friendly.
People will usually respond back with friendliness and they're all excited and they think you're so nice. "How was your day?"
And they ask you random questions right?
And they almost, because it's like forced positive interaction with them, it brightened my day.
I left that thinking, "It's not so bad. I can do this, right?"
Da da da. My whole song had changed from "wahn, wahn, wahn" to "Dann dannt dunnt dunnt dahhn"
Does anybody feel like they have a running sound track? Right, so I was having that moment.
And I was like, I'm gonna blog about that, on my website.
But then I was like, you know, I think it's perfect for Valentines Day, because it's one of those holidays.
We're forced to share love and spread positivity. But, I really think this will help.
So here's my idea! You can like it, or you can hate it, that's fine.
But I think this could really help us because a lot of us, when we suffer with self harm and eating disorders
depression, anxiety. We have those days that are all pressured and holidays revolve arounds can be really stressful
and that actually makes our depression worse, or our eating disorder, self harm urges worse. Or our anxiety,
through the roof! Right? So, I would like you to get some Valentines. You can even get the little cheesy ones
that have the little heart stickers that you put 'em together like Snoopy, or I don't know, I'm trying to think.
I really like Snoopy, but anyways, there's a ton of them. Carebears..I mean for guys out there you're like "Kati, shut up."
But you know what I mean. Get those little cheesy, you guys get like GI Joes or like the Transformers. You can get those.
So, get the little cheesy little kid valentines. And give them out to people that are important to you. Even if you don't
writing little nice things down like, "Thank you so much, Mom, for brightening my day, and you know, will you be my Valentine?"
It's kind cute and it forces us to think positive. It's the same thing as doing our recovery journal, right?
We're forcing our brain to stop focusing on the negative and we're gonna focus on the positive.
So we can write out little Valentines, you can give one to you mom or your boss or your therapist, or your dietician.
Or people that have worked with you, and that they've shown you love and then you can show love back.
And I think that by doing that, it kind of, it spreads positivity. Right, 'cause there's so much out there spreading
negativity all the time. I can't even watch the news these days 'cause it's all negative. Yuck!
So, we're gonna try to turn that around. And, something I want you to do,
even if you don't want to send these, if you're thinking Kati, this is a bad idea, bad idea!
Then, we're gonna get into our recovery journal and we're gonna write a Valentine to ourself.
What have you done to show yourself love lately? Did you take a nice bath, did you paint your nails, did you
paint your toes? Did you rub on your foot? I rubbed my feet the other day 'cause I was wearing high heels.
Woah! Felt really good. So, show yourself a little love, and if you haven't, now's the time to do it,
so that you have something to write down. And let's hope, spread some positivity. We can look for the
positives in life or we can look towards the negatives. And that voice
is always telling us to look towards the negative. So, I think this exercise will help us be more positive!
Okay? So let's do it!
Grab that journal! Go to Target or Walmart or whatever and get those cheesy little Valentines!
Everybody loves Valentines! Right? And we're gonna help spread the love. I feel like it should be the 70's and dun dun dun.
You know, like free love or something? Anyway, so, I think that will be really good, and that's a great task.
And let me know if you like it, and make sure to subscribe to my channel 'cause I've been
putting out videos kind of all over the place, and then you'll get notified about it and you won't miss out.
So, if you like it, hit the thumbs up! And we'll keep working together, spreading positivity, spreading awareness towards
a healthy mind and a healthy body.
Hope you all have a happy Valentines Day!
Oh yeah, okay. Oh and I almost forgot!
Something that will be great, and if you don't want to go to the store and purchase them and send them,
totally understand! But let's send Valentines to one another, via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, my website,
you can put your post, filled with love and thankfulness for everything everyone's done and shared with you. And then we
can be spreading our own positivity within our community and we can branch out that way.
And I think that will mean to much to people! Imagine what it'll mean to you to receive a message thanking you
and telling you how much they care about you, so let's help spread the love. So let's send some Valentines.
Get on it!
[sped-up unintelligable singing]
[exhales] Oh, I'm supposed to do stuff. Can't do stuff.
Power down, does not, cannot operate. Too tired.
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