Stress From Within
Why do we stress ourselves out? I know I cannot be the only one that does this. Time and time again I find myself putting way too much pressure on myself. I feel the need to make everything "perfect". I find myself needing to "control" everything and "fix" everything for everyone. It's exhausting. I don't want to do it anymore. What I should say is, "I can't do it anymore". There, I said it. "I can't." Wow, those words are difficult to say. I get choked-up and teary-eyed just saying it to myself. Why do I put that much pressure on myself? How do I break that nasty habit? I have been like this for as long as I can remember. I jokingly say that as a child I was an eight year old with an ulcer. But am I really joking? Probably not. I do use my sense of humor as a protective mechanism. I use it to make light of a difficult or uncomfortable situation. I have use...