Music is a big love in my life but it's a love that comes and goes. I don't really understand it myself but let me try to explain. I've been playing music, singing, listening to music since I was a little girl but I have episodes (days, weeks, months even) when I don't really listen to and search for new music (except for the radio in my car). I actually find this a bit embarrassing to admit but well, you might know by now that I'm very bad at habits and keeping up with music is one of those things that need a lot of work still. Having said this, I do have a subscription to Deezer (a streaming service like Spotify) and I wouldn't want to live without my playlists. One of the playlist that has gotten a lot of attention lately has been my Recovery playlist. It's a playlist with songs to give me more self confidence, promote/create self love, leave past mistakes behind, forgive myself, recover from everything that's is haunting me (which is also a story for another time) and just clear my mind.
I've put this post into the health category because this playlist really helps me stay positive and healthy (mentally) when dark clouds want to take over. My favourite recovery song at the moment is Recover by Natasha Bedingfield. It's so beautiful and it really calms me down. When I listen to it I'm sure that in time everything will fall into place and I'll find my way in life. Every song in this playlist has a different story but each of them fits perfectly in my story if I just use a little imagination and I'm sure that when you listen to them you too will be able to relate. In comparison to my special man friend Ruben who never ever listens to lyrics I'm all about the lyrics and the lyrics to this song are just perfect.
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| Recover by Natasha Bedingfield (YouTube) |
I was reluctant to share more of "the bad life stuff" on the blog but after receiving many loving and positive reactions on my previous personal post (mostly via twitter @aheartyhome) I was reassured that my blog can really be a place to vent all my feelings and emotions. Good and bad. Thank you for that. So if I'm honest: lately I've felt like hiding under the covers all day and not get out of bed. Luckily I have my special man friend dragging me places so I do not have that option, but if it were up to me I'd hide away in a dark corner and not come out for a long time. There are many reasons for this horrible low self esteem feeling I'm stuck in but that will be a story for another day, when I'm brave enough to open up about it all but I can tell you that unsuccessfully looking for a job doesn't really help. But what does help is listening to this playlist, so I hope that if you're ever going through a rough patch of low self esteem you'll give these songs a listen.
