Bek’s Brain Dump

What is Brain Dumping?

The definition of a “brain dump” is a complete transfer of accessible knowledge about a particular subject from your brain to some other storage medium.

In this case, a blog! For a couple years now I have brain dumped into notebooks, random scrap paper, and into the notes in my phone, and I needed some sort of stability when it came to organizing my thoughts and feelings through the day.

Why do you Brain Dump?

For anxiety, mostly. I struggled for a long time getting wound up and overwhelmed and not really having an outlet to get all my feelings out in a safe and healthy way.

I was angry, all the time. I was anxious, all the time. And I really think those two things went hand in hand when it came to trying to manage my mental health, and at one point, I decided that enough was enough, I wanted to do better for me and my kids, and I deserved to have a better life than the one I was living. Hence, the brain dump.

I realized that if I take time out of my day, to meditate, to get out all my angers and frustrations and all my emotions out on paper, that maybe I could review them in a better light and be able to tackle what I was going through a little easier. I could see what I was going through in a clearer way. I could make a plan and better organize the jumbled mess. I could breathe again. And after a while, my notes weren’t so harsh. They weren’t so angry. They weren’t so mean. What I was doing was actually working.

So now with this blog my goal is to move forward and better organize my brain dumps into a more productive being rather than just random notebooks scattered around my house. I have a natural want and yearning to constantly be learning and growing and to do better as a person, as a caregiver, as a homemaker.

So I hope you follow along as I try to grow and learn and hopefully teach you all a couple things along the way.

I am in no way going to ever be a Pinterest perfect parent, or a crunchy granola mom. But I do wish to do better for myself and my family, in the form of self sufficiency and slow living.

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Thanks for listening.