Jon Hamm aka Don Draper in Mad Men. He's probably a ruminating rebel too, in his own way. "Rumination is a way of responding to distress that involves repetitively focusing on the symptoms of distress, and on its possible causes and consequences "--from Wikipedia
I am currently going through a little something with someone close to me that involves a bit of frustration , silence, accusation, growth in one person and stagnance in another and vice a versa, blame, pain , sadness, and .....And much, much more.
This is the stuff of previous patterns of food addiciton to numb out the feelings and forget and focus on something else that seems 'bright and shiny ' .
Food --that which one can desire, aquire, consume, and forget.
But you don't forget and it isn't really bright and shiny and that path leads down the wrong road.
TODAY , I REBEL. I WILL NOT GO DOWN THE PATH OF USING FOOD.
I will also try to stop ruminating because it isn't getting me anywhere.
I dreamed about this actor, jon hamm, last night ( i have no idea why). It was a good dream.
Good post...there's good stress and bad stress...and then the thing that's in between the two kinds of stress: ambivalence and self-doubt. The place where we ruminate. The place where we can't win. The place where nothing happens. Her point being that managing stress means taking action. And here is where we can act as if...
ReplyDeleteAhhh, Jon Hamm...such a beautiful man...Mad Men starts again March 25 - woohoo!
ReplyDeleteI like this concept of rebelling against bingeing - usually for me, the binge itself is the act of rebellion. Thanks for turning it around for me :)
Hope things improve between you and the person you're struggling with...