“Can you honor the need for ‘rest’?”
It was sometime last January (Jan ’24) when a buddy invited me to ‘rest’ after I made a Threads post of how I was struggling and how tired I was.
Today, I’m just that.
No fancying this post.
No SEOing.
Not even editing or making this long to hit the 600 word count.
Maybe I create a real. I want to show you in real time how drained I am while I’m still in hermit mode.
And to illustrate this in a GIF.
Now, to give you an idea: I’m drained; ‘womanhood’ didn’t start its new cycle yet; I’m sleepy while writing this. So it’s probably a good idea to nap after this.
This isn’t all a complain.
This is a result of not listening to my impulse of needing to rest.
The other day on threads, I posted how “The only world we get to fit in is ours.” It hit me how much in society and even in conditioning that we need to people-please so we lose face. It happened to be a moment where I thought by showing myself, I would be happy.
Boy was it the opposite! Why? I people-pleased. Not bagging myself on this, yet I see how much more I’m needing to recover. I’m noticing my ‘what-ifs’ in this moment. To illustrate: imagine yourself getting injured. You go out and party. You come back even more tired. Now you have to recover from that on top of you getting injured.
I’m hoping that it doesn’t take another ‘crisis’ or situation where I’m needing to learn to continually put myself first so I honor the need for rest.
What ‘honor the need for rest’ looks like?
- Listening to your biological impulse
- Orienting to your environment
- Feeling your feet on the ground
- Checking-in to see what your body wants.
