Daily Prompt Response—Work in Progress

I’m a crafter, so I could answer this question by discussing the various knitting and crochet projects that I have been working on lately. But they’re not exciting me right now. In fact, I haven’t really worked on them much lately. I could say that I have been working on reading my third Stephen King book, The Stand, because I heard that one is his best and it really is pretty good so far. It’s giving an even more creepy vibe considering the plot is based on a highly contagious virus that wipes out massive amounts of people and we are on the other side of a pandemic that did the same thing. But I suppose the best answer to the question is that I have been working on myself. My summer was spent detoxing from a job that was, to put it simply, awful. I was giddy and excited about the prospects of a new job and a new path in life without the stress and anxiety of the all-consuming job I had before. This week marks two months in my new job and I have settled nicely into a work routine. My job is the perfect fit for me right now and so it leaves me the mental space to think and feel things other than the constant stress and anxiety of my old job. As a result, I am realizing that there are a lot of unprocessed emotions that are lingering within myself that I’d like to confront and work through. I’d like to improve things about myself with regard to how I feel and react to certain things and triggers. I’d like to improve how I communicate and express myself. I have only done preliminary work on all of this so far. Lots of introspective journal writing, but my first appointment with a therapist is this Tuesday and I am determined to commit to this person and really put the work in. I have previously flitted between therapists because I always found something I didn’t like about them or some other thing that made me decide I wasn’t going to go back to them. Now, with no other excuses to get in the way—I’m not too busy, I have money to pay for it, etc., I’m going to truly make myself the work-in-progress that I need to be.