Emma Chamberlain

I don't have time.

I need to be on my treadmill and be typing on my iPad instead of walking outside.

I need to be

It brought me back to cooking meals from scratch.

I started reading again.

I started listening to content that was educational.

Mindfulness became so much easier.

I started daydreaming again.

thinking in a healthy way about things again.

And my thoughts were able to just come and go.

I allowed myself to nap.

I've been sleeping for like 10, 12 hours a day.

The week I was supposed to go back to work ended up being a week of true rest.

Only possible, I think, because I really hit a fucking breaking point.

I mean, the irony is I was able to take that week spontaneously because I'm such a fucking control freak and because I'm such a perfectionist and because I overwork myself so much.

I was able to take that week because I am always ahead.

ironically.

But that week of relaxation, true relaxation, I genuinely believe changed my life.

And maybe I'm being dramatic.

Maybe I'll go back to my old ways in like six months.