Be kind and rest

This Summer was different. My vacation started and I still had some personal goals I wanted to achieve while on my time off. So I kept working with my own stuff. I wrote scripts. While watching the kids swimming at the beach. I filmed a course. While hearing my family on their Summer activities, jumping on the trampoline, throwing the darts. And yet I knew this was such meaningful work for me to do. So I did it. 

But when I had filmed my course, I sat on the beach with my dear sister-in-law. They had come to visit and the kids were enjoying swimming. And while we were discussing I realized that I was harder on myself than I even realized. I had used half of my vacation for creating the scripts and filming and I still wasn't planning on giving myself vacation from the content creation work I work with in my free time.

While sitting on that beach I could feel my body carrying the weight and pressure of the past year. I could sense how my nervous system was stretched and wanted to relax so I could experience a full on reset. So I made the decision. And told to my sister-in-law that I had just decided to give myself a few weeks full vacation and time off from all of my work.

That decision caused my whole body to relax in a way that I felt it all the way in my nervous system. I was able to be present for resting in ways that my family had been doing already for the past few weeks. I found my real rest mode. No agendas. No task lists. Just me and the Summer and the people around me that mattered the most. And now coming back from my vacation, I can tell you the difference that made. The real reset happened and I feel rested and peaceful to my core.

I’m sharing this hoping it inspires you to listen to your body. It holds special wisdom that affects your well-being profoundly. How are you being kind to yourself and finding rest in the season you're in? 

Love,

Pia