What happens once you're no longer sad and drained
If I was doing a series on recovering from exhausting and tedious things like graduating college or moving countries, this would be a part two. The first one was on taking care of yourself when you are sad and drained. But recovery is a slow process, step-by-step, is a helpful approach. The step two is finding routine and/or a way to establish stability. Whenever something intense ends in your life, it feels like you've been run-over by a bus or slept for a 100 years and woken up as a different person.
Below are some of the things I did to connect with this new person post exhaustion and restful sleeping.
1. Take long baths
2. Make up a routine, do anything at the same time everyday. Even if its drinking coffee or brushing your teeth as a the first thing you do. But commit to doing it everyday at around the same time. It helps center you and build the concept of a day back in your life. For me it was drinking coffee and then I slowly built in reading a book or news story.
3. Find a fun new hobby. Try something new, don't think about it so hard. Just pick one and roll with it. Even if you don't stick with it for very long. Just the process of identifying and doing some trail and error can be refreshing.
4. Exercise!! You can decide how intense you want it to be and how often. But find a way to make that a thing in your life. Whether that's stretches, yoga, a short run or swimming do some at least three times a week. It hurts initially but it's another way to build the concept of time. It also gets you out of your head when you focus you energies on getting blood pumping through your body. It also releases endorphins, so over time you will find it makes you happy– even if nothing else does, the satisfaction of exercising is gratifying.
5. Write, journal, type or paint perhaps but find an outlet of some kind for you emotions and deep thoughts. Instead of letting them churn up in your noggins, unload them somewhere from time to time. It helps with process when you don't hold them in tightly. It can also be cathartic to rerun an experience and see it from a different perspective.
Below are some of the things I did to connect with this new person post exhaustion and restful sleeping.
1. Take long baths
2. Make up a routine, do anything at the same time everyday. Even if its drinking coffee or brushing your teeth as a the first thing you do. But commit to doing it everyday at around the same time. It helps center you and build the concept of a day back in your life. For me it was drinking coffee and then I slowly built in reading a book or news story.
3. Find a fun new hobby. Try something new, don't think about it so hard. Just pick one and roll with it. Even if you don't stick with it for very long. Just the process of identifying and doing some trail and error can be refreshing.
4. Exercise!! You can decide how intense you want it to be and how often. But find a way to make that a thing in your life. Whether that's stretches, yoga, a short run or swimming do some at least three times a week. It hurts initially but it's another way to build the concept of time. It also gets you out of your head when you focus you energies on getting blood pumping through your body. It also releases endorphins, so over time you will find it makes you happy– even if nothing else does, the satisfaction of exercising is gratifying.
5. Write, journal, type or paint perhaps but find an outlet of some kind for you emotions and deep thoughts. Instead of letting them churn up in your noggins, unload them somewhere from time to time. It helps with process when you don't hold them in tightly. It can also be cathartic to rerun an experience and see it from a different perspective.
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