#chronically hustling

[chronicallyhustling]

🌿 Wellness Wednesday 🌿

Living with chronic illness means wellness looks different for me. It’s not yoga at sunrise or green smoothies every day—sometimes it’s canceling plans, taking a nap, or just getting through the day without pushing myself too hard.

Today, I’m choosing rest.

What does wellness look like for you right now?

#WellnessWednesday #ChronicIllnessLife #HealingJourney #FibromyalgiaAwareness #ChronicallyHustling #PaceYourself

[thepeacefulgarden]

[akindplace]

“What are you waiting for we all have the same 24 hours in a day!!”

I’m waiting for my pain to lessen to a level where I feel comfortable standing up. We don’t have the same 24 hours in a day when you spend none of them feeling sick but people with disabilities are still expected to function at the same level as an able bodied person while struggling with their symptoms, with their pain, their fatigue.

People who are poor, people who have to work three times harder just to survive, people who are sick - they don’t have “the same 24h in a day” as someone who is abled-bodied, or as someone who doesn’t struggle with burnout and overworking or poverty or racism or so many other forms of prejudice and marginalization.

“We all have the same 24h in a day” is just a myth. And as soon as we accept that others can stop shaming people for not easily overcoming their struggles and using that empty catchphrase as an excuse to not help anyone else, and the sooner we can stop feeling guilty for not being able to hustle our way out of very serious problems. Sometimes there aren’t easy solutions, or a fast way out of certain situations and we can’t do it all on our own. And that’s fine. It’s okay to admit this is a myth. It’s better than shaming people and feeling so much guilt.

[triumph-of-adaptation]

Tricia Hersey: Rest Is Resistance

The Nap Ministry

[enbycrip]

Tbh I love seeing people do things that Maybe Aren’t That Good and people celebrating them for the dedication and scope nonetheless?

I keep thinking about that quote somewhere about the thing about art being a human behaviour and not just a collection of skills that are only worth doing if you are professional-level quality at them. Because I think that mindset is really damaging and stops a lot of people from doing things enough to get better at them, frankly.

I know it’s a big problem for me, esp because, frankly, my energy is so limited that doing things I am Bad At, which for new artistic skills in particular is very energy-intensive and tends to make me feel like shit. Making myself feel awful to produce a Bad product at the end, because it is a new thing I haven’t done remotely enough to be good at it, is incredibly disheartening. I have to *actively* keep telling myself “This has value that isn’t about producing a professional-level product.” And that, frankly, is *difficult*.

One of the things in anarchist activism is making arts and crafts that might not be that good because it’s valuable in itself to disrupt this mindset. Because it keeps us buying cheap things from underpaid and exploited workers instead of making our own things, which may eventually be good, or may eventually just be better than when we started.

And yeah, disableism, including internalised disableism, does come into this. Because there is a social expectation that if, in theory, disabled people *can* do something, we *should* be able to do it as quickly, well and reliably as abled people. And, at least for those of us who deal with any form of cognitive or energy impairment, including chronic pain (because no one who does not experience it *ever* appreciates the cognitive drain that constant pain puts on someone) that is *rarely*, if ever, the case. In my case at least, my impairments actively affect how well and quickly I can learn new skills.

You can almost certainly imagine how well that intersects with ADHD. I can summarise it as “badly”. The frustration makes it *incredibly* difficult to keep plugging away at this thing you are fucking up because you are new to it in a sustainable way, ie by taking rest and learning it in regular bursts. The idea that it has to be professional-level good or it is simply laughable is most unhelpful to me at those times.

Basically; please think about where the attitudes you have learned and internalised come from and the effects they may have on people around you when you display them. It’s not about you being A Bad Person; it’s about the fact that we have all grown up, and live, in a fucked-up society, and we owe it as human beings to learn better and be better than that. To ourselves, as much as anything.

[kalavathiraj]

It's easier to say no to work, to stay careless and lazy but a lot more difficult to act like an adult with responsibilities.

Kalavathi Raj, QUOTUS

[fuck-i-like-too-much-stuff]

I love that i could be going down any thai ql actor's ig, and there will be a 95% chance that Poon will have liked every fucking post.

[chronicallyhustling]

Tip Tuesday!!

[thepeacefulgarden]

[timmurleyart]

Low and slow. 🐶🚗🎵💰🌿🎤(mixed media on paper)🍃

[ettawritesnstudies]

Vent post in the tags don't mind me

[kaiju-superstar]

when every specialist you see for your health problems is like "you're pretty young to be dealing with this !!" "you're a little different than my normal patients !!" "usually we do this test on seniors, but-"

[rozcdust]

i don’t think people exactly understand how easily your body will give out under huge amounts of stress - it’s so normalised now, except no, it shouldn’t fucking be so, it is not natural to always be in fight or flight, which is what stress is

i got sick due to stress at 14. not terribly sick to the point that i even realised it, i had no symptoms, but i was sick - the doctors were surprised i was even able to walk due to how bad it got, and it will never be better, and all i can do is take meds that barely work on the daily and cope with the chronic fatigue, mood swings and plethora of mental problems this physical problem caused

fuck hustle culture, and fuck having to be productive constantly - humans weren’t made for that shit. you ever feel bad because all you do when you come home is rot in your bed? don’t. do it. that ‘rotting’ is just resting villainasied

“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.

[kurtexists]

Just checking Instagram is like entering a nightmare zone. Peek thru the door like “How’re we going on this platform?” And I’m immediately bombarded with the Bad Feelings.

Ah yes, people from my community that, despite me asking and begging for help refused to help me when I really needed it.

[cybergrapeuk]

I'm not a big fan of how discourse about work is either WORK IS ALWAYS BAD AND ANTI-CAPITALIST or GRIND YOUR LITTLE SOUL OUT UNTIL YOU'RE DEAD. Two extremes which are unrealistic to the real-world.

After spending some time gaining offline opinions, I've actually found that I like work and doing stuff and focusing on something I have meaning towards. I also like better pay, accessibility and unions at the same time. You can have both, you know?

Where's the Healthy Work movement at?