Holiday season can be overwhelming. It might also pull us out of our routine or put a lot on our plate, so it’s important to find ways to rest and recharge! These are three of my favorite ways to do that :)
The holidays can always be a time when I especially experience a lot of burnout. Here are three tips that I use to recharge during the holidays so that I don't burn out. Making intentional extra time when you can, for just you. Pre cooking meals can also help us feel recharged.
Let's talk about recharging around the holidays. Hi, I'm Rachel Havocost. I'm a writer, mental health advocate, and I like to share my experiences with my own mental illness and going through therapy to help people feel less alone. So the holidays can always be a time when I especially experience a lot of burnout, whether it's from a lot of social time, a lot of travel, a lot of spending money, a lot of being out of my routine. And it's really important that I carve out ways for me to recharge. So here are three tips that I use to recharge during the holidays so that I don't burn out.
Number one, five minute breaks. So this literally means whatever I'm doing, wherever I am, giving myself a five minute break. So that might mean pretending that I have a phone call I have to go answer and excusing myself to go outside and take a little break. That might mean taking a walk around the block to get some fresh air. That might mean putting down my work, putting down my chores, putting down whatever I'm doing and just taking a moment to sit for five minutes and breathe. Carving out intentional moments of pause so that I don't get on overdrive and so I can take some time for myself.
Number two is kind of that taking time for myself, but taking it extra carve out you time. This means making intentional extra time when you can, for just you. So whether that's taking yourself on a solo date, taking yourself out on a nice coffee walk, making sure you have time to recharge, whether that's through knitting or crafting or watching your favorite show, turning your phone on, do not disturb intentional you time that is planned and scheduled. Think of this like going on a date, but with yourself.
The third one. And this might seem really simple, but pre cooking meals. So oftentimes during the holidays, there's a lot of chaos around food because we're going to people's houses, we're hosting people. So our grocery shopping and our cooking time and our schedules and when we're eating and where we're eating and what we're eating can kind of get out of whack. So as a way to help us feel recharged, it's really helpful to try and find some level of routine and stability. So something like at the beginning of the week, pre cooking, a lot of rice, a lot of protein, a lot of veg, or whatever it is that you like to eat, so you have a lot of food that you're accustomed to without having to make choices on hand can be really helpful for those times when you feel overwhelmed or tired and exhausted because of all this other stuff that's going on, and you can make sure that you're still feeding yourself.
Hope you found this helpful and I will see you next time.
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