Behavioral activation is VERY important to mental health. There is a deeply false belief that we have to feel like doing things in order to do them. I hear this one from many people and I’ve thought it myself quite a bit in the past. The thought is something like, “I don’t feel like it. I’ll wait until I feel better.”
Sometimes, if you’re sick…like throwing up or you broke a bone or you just gave birth or had surgery…this might be true. You may need some time to rest and you will “feel like it” once again after your body recovers.
More often though, you just aren’t ever going to “feel like it.”
If I had a quarter for every time I did I thing I didn’t feel like it, I’d be like Scrooge McDuck swimming in a giant quarter filled pool. And I’m in no way shape or form the most productive person I know.
I have a lot more to say about this, but it’s time to clean. Spoiler: I do not feel like it.
Love,
Terra Rose
Life Without Montages 