Is your brain barely hanging in there?

Do you ever catch yourself getting a little light-headed and/or a lot unfocused from the chronic, non-stop tyranny of tasks needed of you? The constant mental draining of problematic tools, processes or people at work, and still, with all this draining, you still feel like you’re drowning? If you also experience similar oxymoronic experiences, well, you’re not alone. And, please, hang in there with me!

Ugh. Sometimes I just want to say F it and “I’m going fishing”. In the proverbial sense of course. I mean, I just want to drop everything and run away to my happy place. Or teleport myself to any random place other than here. Here’s what I like to do to make sure escapism isn’t my go-to for coping… I mean, sure, escapism works magically. But all magic comes at a price, and don’t get me started on the sustainability of that life choice. To each their own journey of course, but on this journey we practice self regulation. More specifically, I take a Brain Break.

Yes, I enjoy implementing my “Break Break” policy whenever I need to. I learned the value of this practice the hard way.  Along the way, I tamed my inner critic to stop the mind chatter of, “What! A break!!! No, there is too much to do. Must deliver. Must…”. Now, I feel grateful to say that I have healthier behaviours to access. And these behaviours contribute directly to my self regulation success. So my go-to for managing stress and anxiety is often to take a Brain Break.