Hi Olivia
It sounds like you're working hard in the many ways of self development and self understanding (coming to understand what works for you and what doesn't). I'm a gal who's a big believer in finding the right recipes in life. Kinda like 'In this challenge the ingredients need to be a pinch of this, a dollop of that, a stack of these things and some of those...'. All these positive ingredients add up to the recipe for good mental health or the recipe for good overall health, including a soulful sense of wellbeing.
One of the things I've found over the years relates to new challenges that come up. It's like you've got your 'go to' recipe book for good mental health and you think 'Well this recipe here worked well under those circumstances, it should technically work well under these circumstances too' but you find it doesn't. Through trial and error and eventual success, you find a whole new ingredient or lot of ingredients that make all the difference. All the constructive chemistry that comes with good quality sleep could be some of those new ingredients. You have an amazing stock pile of ingredients: Dancing, cooking, going to the gym, therapy, exercise, healthy eating etc. With improved sleep, connecting with nature and meditation on the list of things to add to your stock pile, mixing and matching a variety of things that work under different circumstances is a part of the quest regarding self mastery. Self mastering is definitely a process. We don't get there all at once.🙂
