Everyone needs downtime.
In this age of playing soccer mom, working mom, and housekeeper/cook or any combo of these and more, I find it important to put my feet up and take a chillpill.
Not literally but figuratively. Heck, I can’t even take aspirin without some sort of weird side effect.
No, the chillpill I speak of is a relaxation technique.
A bubble bath locked away from the world.
A book, locked away from the world…
Noise reducing headphones in my ears, blocking out the world…
Key: escaping the world even if it’s for a quarter of an hour.
I often choose a book on my endless TBR list, Ziploc my kindle in a freezer bag, light a couple of candles, and hit the tub until the water cools. Sometimes even then, I add more hot and swipe through another couple of chapters.
Or lace up the running shoes, grab the mp3 player, and hit the walking/jogging trail.
Sometimes just driving around listening to music will wind me down and give me that second wind needed to carry on the rest of the day.


