Feeling Strain

As I listen to my wife talking to her sister over the phone and helping her with her depression, I noticed the stress and strain it started to take on me, too. The final straw was opening up a credit card bill and seeing an item that I paid still on the bill and service that I canceled put through even though they said they would not do so.

I’m sure you have your version of trying to cope during this time.

When we’re in an immediate crisis, we tend to feel overwhelmed. It’s one thing too many that takes us over the edge and gets her heart racing, our body tightening up in her blood pressure go off the charts.

What can you do?

Nothing is easy and it takes time but try doing what I’m doing now take a deeper and exhale slowly.

However long you breathe in deeply, double the amount of time you breathe out slowly.

Get your emotions under control and your head in the game again.

The trigger for me that makes me strained and stressed is a time earlier in life where he eventually went bankrupt in the memory of my wife at that time and I being financially out-of-control. We spent far more than I earned that took us to the brink and eventually across it.

Thus I see a credit card bill where I’ve made a payment, my bank recognizes the funds were taken…