a recipe for rest
how to weave slow moments into busy days
If you’d prefer, you can listen to this short essay…just scroll down and press play.
I’ve reached the stage in life where I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can be kind to myself. I don’t say this indulgently; it’s more that I’ve honed my awareness to a point that I listen in, take note and make choices accordingly.
Perhaps this is the simplest and most powerful form of self-care because if we stop to really think about it, care is the greatest motivator of all. I think it’s also a consequence of shunning the have it all message that was sold to millennials at the peak of hustle culture.
Actually, no: it’s coming to realise that having it all is being able to work creatively despite inconsistent income, parent with realistic levels of patience, eat nourishing food and rest when I need to.
Of course, we’re easily convinced that wellbeing is complicated and requires exact quantities of protein, sunlight, kale, sleep and water to be worthwhile.
I think it’s simpler than that. And it has to be simple when life tends to be complicated.