Why You Should Steal a Restorative 5 Minutes For Yourself, Even When it Feels Impossible
Right now, the present moment is so challenging for so many of us.
Some of us are adjusting to new parenthood during a pandemic without the support people we were banking on to help. As if new parenthood wasn’t isolating and difficult enough. It is exhausting and bittersweet (if not straight up heartbreaking) work.
Some of us feel like this pandemic has put our relationships with our partners in a pressure cooker. As if our culture doesn’t already encourage us to expect our partners to be everything we need (best friend, lover, co-parent, housekeeper, chef, bill payer, therapist, deep conversationalist, personal growth challenger…). Now we need them to do it all in a vacuum, and without chewing their food or breathing too loudly.
Some of us are struggling to work from home, with or without kids. Working from home is starting to feel more like living at work. And others are struggling with a lack of work and financial insecurity. Nothing feels like enough.
Some of us are relieved to no longer be our children’s school teachers at home, only to wonder now how we’ll now keep our children active, safe, happy and engaged this summer with so few summer activities opening up.
Some of us are trying to examine our privilege, talk to our white friends and family, bring about structural change, fight for black lives, redefine what it means to live in community with others.
So many of us take on too much all at once, give everything we’ve got to everyone else.
We know that in order to keep giving, we have to give to ourselves first. But who’s got the time?
Right now, maybe the best we can do is steal a mere five minutes for ourselves. Luckily, a lot can shift in five minutes. The smallest things can reap benefits that sometimes can make or break our day.
I talk a lot about the power of self-care and doing “small things often”. So, let’s talk about what that actually looks like and why it matters.
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