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Humans and cars both feel the impact of missing maintenance trips.
On the human side, I am all for the self-help movement. Heck, I open every article that provides tips and insight on what it means to engage in self-help.
But what happens when you are too late to the gate to healthily board that self-help train? I can tell you that you are dangerously close to leaving those well intentioned advisements at the door of the secondary security that is barring your access to entering said train.
Disclaimer:
This article stems from the real experiential knowledge of one who was held up by these barriers. Those barriers that initial self-care individuals glide by in the relatively smooth on-boarding toward Self-Improvementville. I know. I initially was one.
To be clear, by no means do I take the position that life for those going onto that proverbial train have smooth travels leading to it. Far from it. People who are attracted to the self-help journey are usually trying to find new areas that speak to their intrinsic need to find harmony between body and soul.
This article is about those of us well intentioned who didn’t read the signs on their travel. We think the grease ascertained from our previous regular mental maintenance will have us strengthened and go headfirst…
