Mental Health Monday: Sunday Scaries

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up with fifth in the morning, Good Morning.
I don't think there's a song designed specifically for Sunday scaries. However,
I do like using this one sometimes on Monday mornings.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hoping everyone has a great day rise and shine rass.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Here we go shine. Kylie Jenner knew as she was
doing when she said that the little Stormy Mental Health
mondays Lori Sharpage is our license Splinnacrow counselor. She joins
us and gives us just something to feel.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
A little bit better, a little bit better, brass, shine, Shine.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Sunday scaries are a legitimate thing, though, and I feel
like they happen more and more as we get closer
to warmer weather eventually, But how do you avoid the
Sunday scaries to prepare yourself for a little bit better
of a Monday?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
So Sunday scaries are so legitimate. Everyone has them in
different ways, and I think the first thing is to
recognize that it's not so much about avoiding them, it's
about allowing whatever the feeling is. So a lot of
times Sunday scaries pops up because we are anxious or
overwhelmed about something that's going to happen on Monday, but
Sunday is usually time for rest, okay, and we need
to give our brain the space for rest. So if

(01:16):
you find yourself starting to get really amped up about
things that are happening another day or later in the week,
or whatever it may be, what you really want to
do is you want to take a moment and kind
of brain dump that stuff. So take a piece of paper,
write it all down. The important part is to capture
any type of thoughts in your mind and to put
them on the paper.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
There's a lot of feelings towards journaling and meditating and
writing things down. What do you have to say to that?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I get. I think a lot of times people think
like the small things not going to make a difference.
And what I really encourage people is the small things
make small differences, and you should always give them a shot.
I certainly understand when people are like, no, that won't
work for me, But when we're talking about give it
fifteen seconds and try it, what's wrong with just giving.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
It a try teen seconds? Yeah, I'm a big brain
dump person, so I didn't want to give my bias
opinion on it. But I meditate in journal just about
every day of my life. But it really does make
a difference when you've got something super overwhelming, even if
it doesn't make sense to write it out on a
piece of paper. So you're saying that there's science that
when you do that what happens for Monday morning.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
It helps your brain to shift into a space where
you can rest on that Sunday and then you have
the cognitive bandwidth to know on Monday that it is
time to deal with that challenge because you've already taken
the step of writing it down and showing your brain
it's important, but it's not important to worry about in
this moment. It's important to punt over to Monday.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
My favorite phrase of all time circle back, Circle, tell
your brain to circle. Bad man at the Coping Queen
on social media is where you can find Lori's Sharp
page for little tidbits, and of course she joins my
show on Mondays. Thanks Mike Gal, thank you so much.