{"id":23,"date":"2016-03-22T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linelightgame.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2016-03-22T22:49:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:49:45","slug":"emotional-health-tactics-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linelightgame.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/22\/emotional-health-tactics-an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Health Tactics: An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I get asked all the time, “Brett! How do you stay so sane, gu-HUCK??” My reply usually begins with a shrug followed by a coy grin, then I turn to face the questioner dead-on and wink extremely slowly.<\/p>\n

Okay,\u00a0so maybe nobody<\/i> asks me this (though I would like to think that\u2019s how I\u2019d respond). But I think it\u2019s an important question. I didn\u2019t quit my job and go all indie to spend my days convinced that I\u2019m powerless to my world and hope is a joke. Depression and apathy are not on the menu.<\/p>\n

But it still happens. So I must make evaluating and addressing my emotional state a priority\u2014 yes, even more important than my work (gasp). Over the last two years, I have grown immensely. I\u2019ve got oceans more practice and ammo to combat my negative bouts; my negative thinking spirals are much more infrequent and noticeably less intense. Granted, I\u2019ve still got a lifetime of learning ahead of me, but I\u2019m far enough into this mind-rewiring process to share confidently strategies that have really helped me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve experimented with a wide array of tactics over the last 24 months, repeating what works, gradually forgetting about what doesn\u2019t, forgetting about what works, wailing like a New Year\u2019s noisemaker, remembering<\/i> what works, and generally trying not to shit all over myself for all the crap I\u2019m not doing right. You get the picture. I\u2019ll try to condense some of my key, digestible learnings in following blog posts. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Really quick, can you just high-five yourself? It\u2019s free. Nobody\u2019s watching. I may not\u00a0know why you deserve it, but you<\/i> know why you deserve it.<\/p>\n

-Brett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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