@Captain24 Ayyyy look at you go, making progress in recovery! Isn't it just so confusing? 🤣
BUT!! Things do get clearer and clearer! I dunno if it will help you as well but I learned about the 'stages of competence' which helped me heaps! Goes like this:
- Unconscious Incompetence (You don't know that there is a gap in knowledge/lack of a skill)
- Conscious Incompetence (You're aware of the gap in knowledge. Now learning the new skill can begin)
- Conscious Competence (You must put conscious mental effort into performing the new skill - you are practicing)
- Unconscious Competence (The skill is now 'second nature' and you can perform it effortlessly)
So like, you're reaching number 3 with these skills now, where you are actively putting them into place, but you're still needing to put a lot of concentrated mental effort into the process. This also goes for like, how the skills then effect us - ie. you're consciously competent at being soothed by them, but they still don't feel automatic.
Know what I've found to be the number one way to move from stage 3 to stage 4? Consistency. Doesn't matter if you half-ass the process so long as you're assing it in some way! Doesn't matter if you miss a day or two or six! You can pick it back up again and keep on doing it.
You... stepped on a CAT HEAD? Made of Lego I hope!! Ouch!!
I have totally gotten a smidge of glass in my foot before lol but it didn't really hurt cos once your calluses get super thick, the glass never reaches the nerve layer 😅 I do barefoot for my back pain actually!! So like, your ankles are your body's natural suspension/shock absorbtion system right? When we run in heel-strike form (ie. heel hits the ground first) the shock of your body hitting the ground runs straight up the back of the ankle through to the spine. Whereas when I run barefoot my body naturally wants to run in toe-strike form - and when the balls of the feet hit the ground first, it absorbs most of the shock before your heel hits the ground, thereby protecting the spine from being like, constantly jostled about!!
Also, I cannot tell you why, but running barefoot feels SO DIFFERENT to how I used to feel when running. It used to feel like a chore, a great slog of pain and soreness. But now it's like.... idk, feels really freeing! Like I am running with whimsy in my heart, and a literal spring in my step!! Cos I also skip (which is also much better on your back in terms of shock, AND burns more energy than running!) teeheehee 😋
Aye I will never understand people who just... let their dogs go and hump people's legs and stuff! And just casually say like 'Oh don't mind Roger he just likes you'
NO ROGER I DO NOT WANT YOUR LIL DOGGY CROTCH ON MY ANKLE TYVM 🤣
I hope you're surviving work okay hun!! Take care of your wonderful self and maybe catch ya tomorrow? 💜
