You Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup Whilst driving to work on a fairly grey and cloudy morning, I had one of the biggest realisations of my twenty-four years of life. As I drove through the rolling hills, I heard the words: ‘You can’t pour from an empty cup’ from Nanya Florence’s ‘Growing with the Flow’ podcast, and it was a true eureka moment. A realisation that in all my years of spreading myself too thin I’d failed to recognise that my cup was empty, and it had been running low long before that. I had exerted all my energy into other people and other things that I had left none for those times at a wall wondering why I felt so drained. up and ticking things off of a to-do list. However, even after countless years of my dad telling me if you like to schedule then remember to schedule in time to this Wednesday evening if you were to ask me when was the last time you were present and truly relaxed? I would not be able to give you an answer. I only watch TV when I am doing something else at the same time, and recently I only read for work. As the years have gone on, I have seen my health yo-yo as I go through times of adrenaline-fueled living and then end up burnt out every time, and yet never seem ever truly this year. My number one priority is no longer my career, my podcast, this zine or my friends and family but instead just simply my health. It is time for Prioritising your health is different for everyone as we are all different, and that’s what makes the world so wonderful. One of the things I have decided is fundamental in prioritising my health is boundaries. I am setting boundaries in my life and not just in my relationship with other people, but also within my relationship with time. I am putting a cap on how early I work on the weekends; how many days I work thinking surely that won’t change that much about your health, but I already feel
So, if you are reading this and you don’t have any boundaries set with your time in your life and what you put it towards, I really recommend doing it. Or if you don’t prioritise your health please take this as your sign and just start by implementing
By Kirsty Taylor
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