Moods are weather, not climate

I used to treat a bad morning like a formal diagnosis of my entire life.

One anxious wave and I'd start questioning everything I'd built, everything I was doing, and whether I should just pack it all in and become a shepherd somewhere.

(I now live in Bulgaria and plan to build a farm, so this remains worryingly plausible.)

The mood would show up, and I'd roll out a welcome mat, make it tea, and give it the spare room.

By lunchtime, it had rearranged the furniture and was telling ME what to do.

It took me quite some years to notice that moods are weather, not climate.

A terrible morning doesn't mean a terrible life.

A wave of anxiety doesn't mean something is fundamentally wrong. These things blow through like storms, and if you leave them alone, they leave on their own.

The problem is that most of us don't leave them alone.

We start a whole conversation with the storm and then wonder why it's still hanging around at bedtime.

Your default state is fine. The noise is temporary.

But learning to actually BELIEVE that when you're in the middle of it is the tricky bit.

Untethered Mind is the course I built around this exact idea. If your brain likes to turn a bad hour into a bad week, this is what fixes it.

Have a look here.

Peace and clouds,

Alex