Women's day. I expected it to be harder than it was. I think 2 things helped. One was a heavy preparation and active thought management. The first time I thought about Women's day was several weeks ago and that hit me so hard that I actually cried. Then I kept working on my thoughts almost every day. I tried to work on perspective saying to myself that this Day doesn't mean much in my journey and that my journey will (if I live long enough) will lead to a new me. I felt that this helped a little. Also today from early morning I was preparing myself too. And at work I was actively redirecting my focus to all other things except my dysphoria. And there is a 2nd thing that I think could have helped in a way. My thinking is that today's shopping for flowers and congratulating could have made a connection with many years of the same act. It could have been linked with old emotions of the same activities that weren't related to strong dysphoria. I think this helped in a way. Of course if I'm not making this stuff up.
A few decades of anxiety and stress messed my stomach up a lot and higher stress levels can make it really uncomfortable to say the least. That's the case today, fuck it hurts.
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