Rest

Sweetie doesn’t feel the need to earn her rest!

One little word that feels so loaded. I’m grateful that we’ve started to move away from hustle culture and to recognize that maybe we aren’t meant to be working constantly. I don’t need to girl boss any harder, thank you very much.

You know what I absolutely suck at? Resting. It’s like the phrase “idle hands are the devil’s playground” is baked into my bones. Nobody every said that to me, but it is something I have internalized and have had to work hard to let go.

Nothing like getting sick to force one to have to rest. I hated it. Lol. I got bowled over with some fever flu thing last week and I had to call in sick to work and I had to cancel my weekend plans. There is nothing I hate more then cancelling on people, but unless they wanted to share in my misery there was nothing I could do.

Part of the time I slept, and I didn’t really have a choice in the matter. The other part of the time I struggled with myself to just rest and be. There was much reading done, much bad tv watching done (y’all Love is Blind Habibi is a trip) and very little accomplished.

While my rest over the last week was in order to recuperate. It made me stop and think about how to incorporate rest into my life on the daily and the weekly. What could it look like?

Daily Rest Ideas (20-30 minutes):

• Reading

• Crafting

• Roll around on the floor yoga (gentle or restorative yoga)

• Tarot pull

Weekend Rest Ideas (as much time as you have possible):

• Naps

• Puttering (this is where I go around the house and fix or tweak things)

• Bigger Chunks of Crafting time

• Walk by the lake or a bike ride

• Social media break

I think journaling and meditation are often mentioned as ways to rest but I find I resist them pretty strongly. If these work for you, then great, but also there may be other things that you find more restful.

What do you find restful?

Wishing you a peaceful weekend,

Kandy