Finding New Hobbies
In Recent Weeks:
These last few weeks I've been MIA from the world 🌎. Lost in the endless circulating of my mind 🧠 & feeling like a piece has been missing.
My day to day life is nothing interesting. That's no secret & I'll never pretend that I live a fun & adventurous life when it isn't my circumstances. Between being incredibly lonely as my Mother's Dementia has been rapidly declining, not having anyone to talk to & being chronically ill while helping to care for her, going nowhere in the process. I've been feeling locked 🔒 away like Rapunzel yet again in life.
I wish people cared enough to check in on me maybe every once in a while or come visit me. But they don't. I can't change that, the only thing I have control over is myself. Coming to terms with that has been an up & down daily mental torture for too long.
I'm not happy, the truth is I've been very depressed. As my own health has continued to worsen & as my world shrinks to nothing, I'm not hanging on very well. I need something that makes me feel creative again.
I've always been an insanely creative person, when I make food, art, jewelry. Anything that triggers that part of my ever so sparkly ✨️ and whimsical side of my personality, makes me feel like myself again. Which is something I haven't felt in a long time ⌛️...
I'm chronically online these days & I need it to stop! Do you ever find yourself during certain times in life, non stop doom scrolling, constantly consuming content on a Neverending loop. Because my friend, that's been me.
This world is a fire pit 🔥 collapsing before our very eyes, having all of that put on a screen right in front of our faces all day every day, is causing a severe amount of stress for myself & I know many others. What do you say we find some new hobbies? Some hobbies that are easy & affordable, realistic for day to day & enjoyable. Get ourselves off of the screens & onto creating again vs consuming.
As a chronically ill spoonie 🥄, I'm looking for hobbies that don't put stress on my body, at least not too much. Things I can do sitting on the couch, laying on the floor, sitting in bed. If anyone has any ideas 💡, please comment below!
I started journaling more often again. What used to be something I did multiple times a day, every single day without fail. These last two years are all in the same spiral notebook 📓 and for me... well that just goes to show that I have NOT been okay. But I've been picking the pen 🖊 back up again. For that I feel really good ☺️.
I've begun baking more. I used to enjoy baking sweet treats on sour days. Next thing I knew I didn't touch the oven anymore. Now I'm back in the kitchen. It's been at least a few times a week, either baking or trying out new recipes.
Today I found a recipe book 📖 that makes me so excited! Combing food with history. And man do I love history! You can find me watching documentaries at any given point. Recipes with history included from Paranormal & haunted 👻 places from American History! You seriously couldn't convince me that this book doesn't sound enticing 😅.
I've pulled out the coloring books tonight, grabbed my supplies, set it out for tomorrow morning. Usually I sit and watch South Park with my doggos 🐶 in the morning on Comedy Central, but now I'd like to color with them too. Bring back that flow ✨️ into my life again.
Just because I'm sick, it doesn't mean I need to be locked away & stuck on my phone every second I'm awake. A touch of whimsy could do us all some good. Including my links 🔗 down below. I'll include the coloring book I'm working with & the new cookbook 📖 on its way 💜. It's 2026, let's get back into off screen hobbies together 💕.
Thank you for all your love & support 🥰
