{"id":11439,"date":"2024-10-21T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T23:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=11439"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:49:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:49:49","slug":"health-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2024\/10\/21\/health-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Health update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hardanger<\/a><\/p>\n

Last November, I got sick. It felt a bit like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (I\u2019ve had it before) but also a bit different.<\/p>\n

Doctors checked for many things and treated some. After many months I was well enough to regularly drive 1 1\/4 hours to the closest Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner for treatment. (Western medicine is not good at treating chronic fatigue, whereas Chinese medicine is.)<\/p>\n

Nearly a year on, I do not have a diagnosis, but in my mind, it was burnout – a very physical manifestation. I was completely and utterly exhausted, and my body and mind told me in no uncertain terms to STOP.<\/p>\n

Why did this happen? I thought I was doing a good job of managing my time. I was resting on weekends. But I was completely overworking during the week. I realised I wrote my book four times faster than my normal pace. No wonder I was exhausted!<\/p>\n

Misguidedly, I had told my UK co-publisher that I should be able to write Hardanger Filling Stitches<\/a> quickly. They put it in their schedule and released details to the world. You knew it was coming. And you were excited.<\/p>\n

From then, the pressure did not let up. The release date moved several times because I wasn\u2019t going to be done in time.<\/p>\n

People complained that they\u2019d ordered the book, and where was it? It was still being written! Any sooner and it would not have been the fabulous book you now have.<\/p>\n

My strong sense of responsibility meant I didn\u2019t want to let any of you down. So I ran myself into the ground getting the book done.<\/p>\n

Self care is a lesson I\u2019ll probably be learning for the rest of my life. I need to stop listening to all the people telling me what to do and asking me for things. I need to stop feeling guilty about resting and start putting my health first. I need to live my life the way I need to, for my health.<\/p>\n

Every few years, I find myself reassessing my life and wondering if it\u2019s time to do something else. What I do is valuable and brings many people great joy, but I need to be able to do it in my time and in my way.<\/p>\n

I am not well yet. I am starting to wonder if I am now living my new normal. I am making future plans, but for now I\u2019m continuing to take it slow, and hopefully continuing to heal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Last November, I got sick. It felt a bit like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (I\u2019ve had it before) but also a bit different.<\/p>\n

Doctors checked for many things and treated some. After many months I was well enough to regularly drive 1 1\/4 hours to the closest Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner for treatment. (Western medicine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,71,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-hardanger","category-hardanger-filling-stitches-white-threads","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11443,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions\/11443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}