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This week we're talking about why your downtime has become another to-do list.
Hey Reader
When did rest become another thing to optimise?
Yoga to improve flexibility. Journalling to process emotions. Meditation to reduce stress. Even your hobbies have targets now. Everything has to move you forward, rest included.
But your nervous system does not recognise the difference between productive rest and actual rest. It just knows: are you doing, or are you being?
The kind of rest that actually restores you is the kind that serves no purpose. The kind that would embarrass you if someone asked what you did with your afternoon.
Three episodes of something mindless. Lying in the garden doing absolutely sod all. Scrolling without learning anything.
You are allowed to rest in ways that do not improve you. Without making it mean something. Without turning it into content. Without calling it self-care.
Sometimes rest is just rest. And that is enough.
With care, Aimee
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