Why Resting Feels Like the Hardest Part of Your Day
Why your brain won't let you stop even when your body already did
It’s 7:30pm on a Tuesday. You made it through the day. Dinner is done (or close enough).
You’re on the couch with your phone, and your body sank into the cushions twenty minutes ago.
Your brain didn’t.
The dishes. That email from this morning. The laundry sitting in the dryer since yesterday. The dentist you never called back. The thing for your kid’s school.
None of it is getting done. And you’re not resting. You’re scrolling with your thumb and running a mental inventory of every undone thing in your life.
We’ve put together a worksheet this week called When Your Brain Won’t Let You Rest that helps you map what your brain does on the couch and find one thing to offload so the rest actually feels like rest. Takes 5 minutes, nothing to download. You’ll find it at the end of this newsletter.
Your brain on the couch
Two networks in our brains are supposed to take…
