I’ve learned that after a trip I always need to take 12 to 24 hours to help myself readjust back to my life. I find that giving myself that time to do simple housekeeping chores help me shift back into every day work mode.
If something goes wrong in my morning or some point of my day, I stop, take some deep breaths, and say to myself that a bad moment does not make a bad day. Something about that mindful shift really helps me leave that in the past and, be present.
Oct 7, 2024
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i think that there’s a level to which this is possible physically (calling out sick or skipping class if you’re a student or whatever) but even if that’s not possible emotionally checking out + going through the motions and making space and time for your recovery afterwards is almost always how you beat a bad day
for me if the vibes are atrocious beyond reason i’ll call out of work, clean my apartment, then go for a walk, go to the jewish deli and get an egg + pastrami hash on a kaiser roll and a coffee, then go home and either watch tv, play video games, and if i’m feeling up to it later do some kind of writing or reading or other enrichment activity (and sometimes enrichment just isn’t on the table at that’s cool too)
whatever your comfort rituals / little treats are, pull out all the stops and really just stop for a second, take a breath, and let yourself just be, and it’s guaranteed to make getting through it easier by making the day less hard, or giving yourself something to look forward to afterwards
Apr 4, 2024
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Just temporarily!! the only thing that lets me fully reset when I’m in a bad mental loop is to leave my environment and go somewhere new. Get as far as time and budget will allow and see different streets, landscapes, buildings, whatever. Get a little lost if possible! It forces me to be a lot more present and I return to normal life feeling like I got unplugged and plugged back in.
May 21, 2024
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A Rebuttal to an Earlier Rec o' Mine
If you think about the day in quarters it can help if you feel like you've wasted the day or had a particularly bad one. Basically you take the hours from 8am to Midnight (the other 8 being rego sleeping time) and split it into 4.
8am - Noon = Quarter 1
Noon - 4pm = Quarter 2
4pm - 8pm = Quarter 3
8pm - Midnight = Quarter 4
This is not to try to weigh your day better on the good or bad scale, nor is it really pushing for the modular nature of existence. It is really just a way for you to reset back to 0 every 4 hours.
For example: This morning I woke up groggy and gross at 11am, rotting in bed until noon (quarter 1). I finally ate around 12:30pm, was dealing with some annoying health things, didn't do any tasks really, but at around 3:30ish I started writing a substack post (quarter 2). At around 4ish I made a graphic and posted the substack, then I went for a walk, got back from the walk around 7, and made a new resume that I will print out tomorrow as I go in a billion businesses begging for work. (Quarter 3) Now, at around 8:23pm, I am going to make dinner, hopefully shower, and work on a zine. We'll see what happens.
All this to say is if you have little landmarks throughout the day, you can recenter and try again. So, though I thought today was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day it has ended up pretty alright.
Feb 8, 2024
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For some reason this brings me into my parasympathetic nervous system
Mar 28, 2025
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Humans have always danced. It is part of who we are, yet we have been conditioned to be self conscious, to think that we do not move our bodies good enough. Dancing is beyond judgement. Dancing is not a skill, it is our soul moving through our bodies, expressed in movement. Dancing is healing. Dancing is bodily autonomy. Dancing is FUN! Any feeling you are feeling can be moved through with dance yet even alone, you fear looking foolish. Kill the judge in your mind, shut the fuck up, and MOVE 🌊
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FINDING SOMEONE ANNOYING AND IMMEDIATELY REALIZING IT’S BECAUSE THEY REMIND YOU OF YOUR YOUNGER SELF
OH BROTHER THIS GUY actually needs a lot of empathy and understanding
Apr 2, 2025