If you are the person who is always there for everyone else but it feels like no one is there for you, the person who intentionally keeps people at arm’s distance and your friends likely don’t have a clue you’re doing it, or the person who seemingly has hundreds of friends and is always with people but you wouldn’t know where to turn if you actually needed help, this article is for you. I encourage you to mull over these truth bombs and evaluate how you can deepen your friendships, allow yourself to be known (and get to know others better), and ultimately create a beautiful, enriching support system of wonderful people in your life.
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Busyness: The Socially Acceptable Drug
When we don’t intentionally integrate mindfulness practices into our lives to re-center and to cope with difficult emotions, it is actually easier to remain busy and to distract away from what is going on below the surface with us. I believe that one of the most common and incredibly damaging coping mechanisms of highly competent adults is to stay busy. To throw ourselves into more and more work, to consistently have to-do lists we are attending to, to join commitment after commitment, to feel unable to say “no” to requests, to need to be busy in order to feel worth something or to feel important.
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