I was looking for an illustration that demonstrates how I felt today, when I was reminded of Cold Turkey chasing Hypersensitivosaurus, as depicted here.
This is actually an illustration for an upcoming book of mine:
Hypersensitivosaurus and Cold Turkey.
If you're interested in reading more on that, here's a link to the original post, written 7 months ago, where I shared this drawing / watercolor painting for the first time:
Dino Process Art Update - Hypersensitivosaurus and Cold Turkey
Let's say that today's blog post can be seen as a follow up to what I penned down, digitally, 10 days ago: From Cold Turkey to Warm Tea
Long story short: Caffeine is still stronger than me.
I managed to do without it for 6 days and suffered quite a lot, especially mentally. I also didn't experience the benefits that I had been hoping for, physically.
After breaking my coffee 'break' several times, since Friday,
I decided to give in, today. It was time to stop torturing myself and have an afternoon coffee.
Yeah, I could have been more patient, but you should take a look into my mind ( I'm a hypersensitivosaurus ) and I'm sure you would understand.
I can't help but feel that it's clearly not the right time to quit my coffee habit and that's okay.
After today's afternoon coffee I instantly started to feel a lot better ( and it wasn't even instant coffee ) and happier.
It helped.
What also helped, was checking out part 3 of 
In fact, listening to drrune or selfhelp4trolls usually makes me feel good.
I highly recommend watching their talk, if you haven't already. It's split up in 3 videos that can all be found on
In fact, Zach's podcast 'Untangled Knots' originated two years ago, while he was brainstorming with me. I will be his third - and next - guest. More on that HERE
It's now time to eat some home made soup and freshly baked oatmeal and walnut bread with cinnamon.
It's important to treat yourself, every now and then often, especially if you tend to be way nicer to others than you are to yourself
hint hint
working on that.
Much love!
Vincent
aka Hypersensitivosaurs
aka Cold Turkey