- Hey everyone.
It's Friday.
It's finally Friday.
Hit the motor running like let the good times roll.
Such a good song.
I haven't heard it in awhile and today I heard it.
And I was like,
"Oh my God I haven't sang that in awhile."
So it's finally Friday.
You know what that means, I'm on Facebook.
And thank you so much all of you
who have put your questions
Hey Katie FAQ or question or whatever in the
first few lines of your messages.
It was amazing.
It was so easy and there are tons of them.
But I picked three today.
And keep the questions coming.
Maybe next week I'll get your questions.
You gotta keep asking.
And so without further ado, 'cause it's finally Friday
we all need to get out and have a
good time this weekend.
And I straightened my hair today.
It doesn't really like to straighten.
Does anybody else have that problem?
I have a problem.
Okay, so first question,
What is emotional abuse?
"My mum's husband,"
I like to say mum's 'cause you guys
say mums and I think it's cute.
"My mom's husband calls me names
"and makes me feel shitty,
"is that emotional abuse?"
And that's a great question and the
short answer is yes it is.
Emotional abuse can be anything where
people are yelling at us,
they're scaring us, they're calling us names,
they're putting us down in front of other people.
They're making things hard for us in public situations.
Purposely embarrassing us in front of people.
Anything like that.
And that's not to be limited to.
Emotional abuse can be anything that we find
really devastating mentally.
Really anything.
It can be anything like that from from the
yelling to the name calling,
to any sort of thing like that.
So yeah, that is emotional abuse.
And I would definitely see if you can see someone
so you get somebody to talk to
to vent about that.
Or start journaling, doing art, listening to music.
Anything to get out of the house if you can.
And do something good for yourself.
'Cause I'm so sorry that that's happening.
But yes that's definitely emotional abuse.
And I get that question a lot.
So yeah, definitely.
And you can Google it I'm pretty sure.
But it's not limited to what I just named off.
It's just stuff along those lines.
Now number two.
"Is it normal to feel dizzy or lightheaded,
"even if you've eaten that day?
"In the past two days I've eaten before going to work,
"but I still feel dizzy during work.
"And so I drink water but it still doesn't help.
"I'm just wondering if this is normal,
"and if not what should I do?"
Since I'm not a physician,
I'm not an actual medical doctor,
I would encourage you to see a doctor
because there are many things that could be going on.
And it all depends on your body type,
how much you eat in a regular day.
'Cause just saying you've eaten,
I don't know if that means you've had what
I would call a snack and I'm hungry
right after I eat and I could eat more.
Or a full meal or what we're talking about.
But when our body's in recovery and we're
trying to help it heal,
even when we're eating properly,
even in treatment that's why I'm saying
when we're eating properly.
Even in treatment when I've had patients at residential.
Where I know what they've eaten
because I've eaten the same thing.
They'll still feel dizzy for awhile.
And that's really just waiting for our body
to catch up because our electrolytes
can still be imbalanced.
Or potassium levels can be a little wonky.
Some of our organs might not be functioning
to their full capacity because we've been
low on certain nutrients.
And so it can take a while until we feel well
and not dizzy and not sick and not whatever
and not lethargic.
So I would be patient with that but I would
encourage you please, please, please, to see your doctor.
And I would just say,
"You know I've been feeling really faint
"and just off and dizzy at work and it's scary."
And I would have them run blood tests
so that we know what's going on.
So then we know what we need to do.
Does that make sense?
Because being dizzy or lightheaded isn't necessarily
a big concern but it could be.
And we want to make sure we take care of ourselves right.
We want to nip it in the bud before it's
potentially a problem and three months ago
we could have gone and gotten help.
So I would definitely call your doctor okay.
And just get a check-up.
Now the third and final question.
"Is there an alternative to journaling
"when journaling is triggering"
"Is there anything,
All caps,
"anything else I can do to help me process
"through thoughts without having to write them down?"
And I decided to answer this one
because a lot of you are like,
"I hate it!
"I can't journal Katie, why do you ask me to do that?
"Is there anything else?"
There are a lot of things.
But me personally and something funny
that I was telling the girls that came to my meet-up,
I am a journaler.
I used to journal is a little girl
and I journaled all through high school.
So I have years and years of journals,
and when I get my hands on those,
Mom I don't know where those are.
So you find them I need them.
Because I will start reading entries.
'Cause I think that is pretty hilarious.
'Cause these when I read them two years ago,
I was like, "Oh my God these are ridiculous."
So I personally love to journal.
However, if you don't, I'll give you options of things
that my clients have done when they say,
"I hate journaling."
You can vlog, you can do this what I do.
Post it, make a channel.
You can Tweet me your vlogs and I'll try to
catch up and watch them.
And that can be a way to vent.
You can do any kind of art.
I have a client who likes to paint.
I have one that does collages.
I have another person who does pottery stuff.
She's taken a little pottery class,
so she did her little thumb bowl,
and you know they start doing all these
different kinds of artsy things.
I have another, many patients,
almost every one of my patients
actually love music, which I love music.
And create different playlists.
This for relaxing, and this for going out,
and this for that.
You can put music on depending on your mood.
I'm feeling really down I need to get motivated.
And we can create playlists for that.
As far as the processing,
I think that art is great,
music is great for expression.
Talking to a friend.
I'm trying to think of anything else.
This is where you could all help one another.
Leave your comments below and let us know
other things that you do to help you process through
when journaling is just the last thing you want to do.
Or it's triggering, it is horrible and hard for you
to write it out and see it written.
What do we do?
So just some other ideas.
Leave your ideas below to help one another.
And it's finally Friday and I'm going
on a date with my husband.
Isn't that weird?
Husband, but he is.
So I'm going on a date with Sean.
We're going to Gjelina this restaurant in Abbot Kinney.
If any of you are in the L.A. area,
I love Abbot Kinney and so I'm gonna be
hanging out over there tonight.
So I hope you all have a wonderful weekend
and I will see you on Monday.
Bye!