Recognize Your Need For Help
Our focus this week — Sep 17-23: “Letting Someone Help”
Today’s MotD: Recognize Your Need For Help. We’re encouraged to learn and recognize the signs that we may need some help. Taking this one small step helps open us up to receiving it. The most obvious (at least to me) is when I feel completely overwhelmed and/or clueless as to how to get out of the mess or situation. Being able to recognize when we need help and then actually asking for that help is key to gaining our sanity and well-being back to a more manageable state.
As part of this post I wanted to be able to provide a list of common signs so as to help us recognize our need for help. And since I could only come up with one or two on my own, I realized (recognized) that I need help with this. So I went to DeekSeek (ai) to ask it for help with this topic. Here’s a condense list of signs it came up with :
Signs You Might Need to Help
- Persistent Overwhelm
- Irritability and Snapping
- Loss of Joy (Anhedonia)
- Cynicism and Hopelessness
- Constant Fatigue
- Withdrawing from Others
- Brain Fog
- Procrastination & Avoidance
- Declining Performance
- Imposter Syndrome Intensifies
- Dread (about work or responsibilities)
- Changes in Sleep Patterns
- Changes in Appetite
- Unexplained Aches and Pains
- Getting Sick More Often
- Neglecting Self-Care
- Increased Reliance on Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
- Neglecting Responsibilities
- Constant Complaining or Venting
- Feeling Resentful (that others aren’t offering help)
- Feeling Disconnected (spiritually or from community)
- Loss of Purpose
- Inability to Be Present
The Ultimate Sign: The thought, “I need help,” crosses your mind.
It also added this:
That’s it. That’s the sign. You don’t need to wait until you’ve checked every box on this list. If you have a lingering feeling that you’re not okay and you can’t do it alone, that is valid and reason enough to reach out.
As Melody Beattie suggests, asking for help is an act of conscious contact—with yourself, with others, and with the flow of giving and receiving that connects us all. It’s how we stop shouldering the weight of the world alone and finally let the light in.
How about you ? Was there a time you ignored any of these signs that signaled your need for help ? How did that work out for you ? Was there a time when recognizing any one of them and taking some corrective action helped changed everything for the better ?
BTW…Here’s the before…the back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number (I forgot to take a “before” of the front side):
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 