Happy Thursday, everybody. Hope your week's winding down well. Mine has been really full, really solid.

Got a lot of rest. I was talking about how I needed that. I was starting to feel a lot of burnout.

So I kind of cut back my hours and really tried to center rest and pleasure. And for me, it's the very simple things.

I think when I use those concepts, people sometimes might think something extravagant. But often for me that means sleeping in, reading, taking a bath, all things that are really about

slowing down my nervous system, which when we're constantly focused and working or busy

or stressed or carrying anxiety, even if it's a positive anxiety, excitement, you can really wear down

our nervous system and what

what is required for healing is just doing things that are still or slow or soothing or don't require a

lot of thought or effort things that don't have any you know goal or structure attached to them so you're

not looking at the time you're not working towards

anything that's what we really need to soothe our nervous system and listening to what i just said

if you track your day often we don't allow a lot of spaces for that we wake up hit the ground

running and then some people literally come home you know cook dinner and then crash right into bed

and sleep is so important it It's so restorative.

If anything, if I had to give one tip to help everyone improve their lives, but more importantly

the mental health, I'd say sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. But when we talk about things like meditation,

that is a non-sleep-based form of resting our nervous system. But again, meditation, I use that in the most

expansive way. It doesn't have to be sitting in the lotus position in a, you know, Eastern-based

visual or metaphor, but it can be, like I said, taking a bath, taking a walk, wandering around

your local town or city, reading something soothing, anything that's

a right brain activity.

It doesn't have to be sitting.

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