u/yesicancancann

I have been doing Joes meditations for one year only missing a handful of days here and there and sometimes meditating multiple times a day. I have noticed huge benefits: I feel more comfortable with myself, I am more calm, less anxiety, feel more peaceful overall. But I feel as though I have plateau’d and I am having a hard time getting the same feelings from the meditations. Has anyone else experienced this? Maybe it’s just another layer I’m uncovering and I will continue to meditate because it does help me so much but somehow I feel less affected in the moment by each one. I haven’t manifested anything wild but I have noticed a lot of synchronicities in my life and I feel more gratitude and peace everyday than I ever have before I am just feeling slightly numb to the meditations if that makes sense. Any feedback appreciated !

My daughter is 8 and we just completed our first year of homeschool. She had a terrible kindergarten and grade 1 experience and came out of school with major anxiety and hyper vigilance. This year we focused mostly on her well being and finding joy again so I spent a lot of time with her playing and doing practical home things and getting her outside. The second half of the year we were able to get in more academics (writing reading and math). She is doing so much better mental health wise and has much less anxiety however she seems to still really dislike the idea of “learning” pretty much anything. She has an incredible imagination but it turns every situation into a scenario we are acting out. She loves to play but it turns everything into a game and nothing is real and I find this so exhausting. Since she has been so traumatized by school she has no interest in learning something new or even finding an interest. She has been so clingy to me most of the year but now she is more comfortable with herself and going in her room by herself for short periods or in the backyard (something she could never do when I pulled her out of school) but I’m feeling concerned about her finding her passions because she gets so frustrated or disinterested so quickly. I try to give her periods of free time everyday so she can be bored and find her own interests without being entertained but sometimes she takes this personally like I’m abandoning her which is not the message I want to send obviously. She just doesn’t have anything that really gets her into that flow state where she is content and focused and I feel like I’m guiding her through her whole day because she has no intrinsic motivation. We don’t do screen time during the week and weekends is limited. I have seen her progress so much this year already being at home maybe I just need to keep trusting the process.

I’d appreciate some advice on finding a love for learning.

Thanks for reading!!