Moments To Relax This Season

This is an important reminder at this time of year. There is something about the holidays that pushes us to try to be always at our best and create unrealistic expectations about what the holidays should or could look like. So many of us understand what "holiday stress" means and what it looks like for us. It might be busy end of year work schedules, it might be feeling like we have to get to a hundred events, it might be the stress (both happy stress and complicated stress) of seeing family. 

This past Saturday I want to a self care/art event hosted by Lighthouse Foundation. It was fun to relax and do a few paintings and make some essential oil aromatherapy spray. It was a fun break and a fun prep as we move into a busy holiday season. Now you might not be into art or want to work with essential oils but you should think about what self care will look like for you this season. It is important that we all take a moment to take a deep breath.

As the actor Wentworth Miller once said:

Just moments where I am doing what I need to do to make sure that I vibrate at the right frequency that might look like burning some sage, that might look like dinner out with a friend, that might look like a bath with Epsom salts – just the things that I need to do for myself that are small, doable, affordable, that nourish me. I think often we neglect ourselves, we focus on things in the external, but there’s a lot here (gestures towards his chest) that needs attention. (Wentworth Miller -- Oxford Union 2016)

Or in the wise words of Captain Cold knowing when we need to throw away the plans we have so we can respond to what is happening around us and within us.