The Spoon Theory

Recently in our house, I have been throwing around the word "spoon" a lot, especially to Mark when I am at the point of stress overload. {Can anyone relate~?}

He looks at me quite confused & bewildered when I say something like I only have 1 spoon today, and I already used it up getting out of bed! Now what am I suppose to do?

Because I understand all too well by now that he, also, only has so many "spoons" allotted for his day as well.

I try to go on and explain what it is exactly I mean ... what I've learned ... what I need and want, but I know I haven't fully communicated well enough exactly what it is I am trying to convey.

Although my 25-year battle to rid my body of chronic Lyme disease has thankfully -- finally! -- come to an end, the ramifications of it have not.

The damage it did to my body was done and is still present daily, in some form or another.

I'm in something I like to call a "repair" mode in which my focus is now on repairing & rebuilding what was broken in my mind, body, heart, and spirit.

I know that that takes time ... and a whole lot of sunshine & laughter! :)

However, while in the waiting, I still have to battle with the "left over" symptoms.

Some days are better than others; the good days are starting to outweigh the bad.

And for me, that is definitely something worth Smiling about! {Probably the rest of my family too!}

So with my spoon analogy being tossed around more and more, I realized that it was time I posted about this "theory" I discovered a few years back because it helped me so much personally in my own journey.

And I love to give credit where credit is due.

I am thankful for Christine Miserandino's creativity with words and analogies to make a very complicated, sometimes difficult issue to discuss and explain to a healthy person what it is like to daily live with a chronic disease.

I hope you find it helpful for yourself if you are the one who is sick or in pain or just stressed out to the max!, but I also hope it helps you understand better what someone else may be going through in their Life ... sick or not.

I think the "Spoon Theory" will definitely help you, like it did for me.   

I will leave you with this: Christine's "Spoon Theory" doesn't just apply to those who are sick. It doesn't just apply to Christine who is suffering with lupus or me who had Lyme disease, but rather this "idea" can be applied to Life in general because everybody is dealing with stressors of some kind.

Some much more bigger than others, but it is still the same.

It's an analogy teaching us all about how to make the most of our time here on earth with what we've been given.

It's a "theory" teaching us all about how to find balance in our lives~ and all taught through the wonderful use of words and a very basic, commonly used "tool" called the spoon!

But then, after you read it, please pass it along ...because I feel this one is definitely worth sharing~!

Please click here to read all about this wonderful Spoon Theory.