#321 - How to Neutralize the Sunday Scaries
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It’s very likely all have felt this to varying degrees in varying seasons of our lives. One Sunday can feel fine, and the next we feel like everything might catch on fire. So here’s what I’d like to offer. I want to give you a helpful plan for neutralizing the Sunday Scaries.
We’ll start with a three-step calming practice then I’ll give you seven things you could do to make Sundays less scary.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter |
| 0:08.3 | and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:10.5 | Today is episode 321, how to neutralize the Sunday Scaries. |
| 0:16.0 | What are the Sunday Scaries? |
| 0:17.7 | After a little research, I discovered that the term first appeared in Urban Dictionary |
| 0:21.7 | of all places, but really entered the side-guised in the mid-20 teens, and it is a phrase that |
| 0:27.2 | describes the anticipatory stress of the upcoming week. |
| 0:31.6 | I would assume that that stress has existed for you at some point in your life. |
| 0:37.0 | It's very likely all of us have felt this to varying degrees, in varying seasons. |
| 0:42.3 | Once Sunday can feel fine and the next we feel like everything might catch on fire. |
| 0:46.2 | And because there are so many contributing factors to that anticipatory stress, the more |
| 0:50.7 | factors you have, the higher your stress probably is going to be on that particular day. |
| 0:57.0 | What are some of those contributing factors? |
| 0:59.3 | You're upcoming work week and whatever responsibilities you have in your job, where you are in your |
| 1:04.3 | menstrual cycle. |
| 1:05.6 | If you drink too much over the weekend and you have a hangover, if you have not refilled |
| 1:09.4 | your energy by either being alone or being with people depending on what you need, if |
| 1:13.6 | you have too many unknowns staring you down in the upcoming week. |
| 1:17.8 | Trying to figure out what's for dinner. |
| 1:19.6 | An unusual schedule. |
| 1:21.2 | Or even a ground-talk day schedule that is just making you crazy because you feel like a |
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