Stress less, rest more!

It’s personal post day and I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling mighty exhausted. Maybe we’ve approached the mighty March slump? There is no such thing as the mighty March slump, I don’t think, I’ve just made that up because it sounded good in my head. I thought, for a while there, that I was the only person feeling tired, rundown and a little bit ‘icky’, but after talking to a few friends it seems like a lot of people are feeling that way too. Thank goodness for that! It’s nice to know you aren’t the only one. There used to be a really big temptation for me to push myself harder when I realised I was feeling tired and sluggish. I took a bit of a bootcamp style approach to my life, telling myself to quit the whining and get moving because, “Pain is weakness leaving the body!” and all that kinda tough-love stuff. I guess we look around us and think that everyone else is tired too, so we should just get on with it. I used to look at my friends who were working full time while raising their family or studying at University, working full-time (...)