Most of us know hide and seek as a game we played as children and I am guessing a few of us still play as grownups but that’s another game all together.
This game strangely forms the foundation to the way some people live their lives; you hide from your problems and seek anything that makes you feel better or helps you hide from all that is wrong.
I am dubbing this way of living the hide and seek method. It is so easy to hide from the core root of your problems, some as simple as emotional eating has roots in deep seeded self esteem issues or bullying for example.
At work this is a very helpful method also called ostrich’ing it. You stick your head in the sand and wait, hoping that if you wait long enough the problems or crappy feelings will go away. This of course never happens.
The problem with hide and seek is you will eventually be found and seen, basically caught in the act of hiding away!
I think this week has been a week of self ‘finding’. It has been brutal and hard and at times there just wasn’t a hiding place big enough!
But now exposed and in the open I am free to feel what I need to, let the wounds heal and slowly find my way back onto the playground!
This is a very philosophical post but I just needed to put it out there!
This game strangely forms the foundation to the way some people live their lives; you hide from your problems and seek anything that makes you feel better or helps you hide from all that is wrong.
I am dubbing this way of living the hide and seek method. It is so easy to hide from the core root of your problems, some as simple as emotional eating has roots in deep seeded self esteem issues or bullying for example.
At work this is a very helpful method also called ostrich’ing it. You stick your head in the sand and wait, hoping that if you wait long enough the problems or crappy feelings will go away. This of course never happens.
The problem with hide and seek is you will eventually be found and seen, basically caught in the act of hiding away!
I think this week has been a week of self ‘finding’. It has been brutal and hard and at times there just wasn’t a hiding place big enough!
But now exposed and in the open I am free to feel what I need to, let the wounds heal and slowly find my way back onto the playground!
This is a very philosophical post but I just needed to put it out there!