Lay on the couch for 2 hours one day. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m tired.
Tired.
I know it’s that time of year, but this is like the fourth time I’ve been run down with some sort of cold this year and that tells me one thing…slow down. Rarely, actually kinda never, do I sit on the couch and just read or veg out to some mindless TV. But we need that. Sometimes we need to turn off our brains and just zone out to some trashy television.
Take a bath. When was the last time you took a bath? If you’re like me it was 1998. Our bath isn’t the best, so in lieu of that, I’m headed to gym to sit in the jacuzzi. Bubble bath or jacuzzi, treat yaself.
Eat cake and coffee for an afternoon snack. One of my favorite things to do is go to Peacefood (or any bakery really) and get a piece of cake or cupcake or cookie or any combination of butter and flour and sugar and a cup of hot coffee and chill out for a bit while chatting away with one of my girlfriends. It just feels special.
Disconnect. Sign off from social media for the whole weekend, or even just several hour – heck, an hour. Maybe even turn off your phone for a few hours or more at a time. Whatever you do, unplug. Constantly being connected to your phone or scrolling through people’s highlight reel on Instagram or Facebook can gunk up your soul. Create some space to straight up…just be.
Make yourself breakfast like you mean it. None of this oatmeal and banana and PB, but like a stack of pancakes with some scrambled eggs maybe some hash browns or fruit and a few cups of coffee. And take a long time to eat it while resting your feet on the coffee table and flipping through some weekend TV.
Gosh, I love your blog!
Simply put: I love your blog even when your posts are as simple as this! Always a nice reminder to do the “little” things! I love afternoon cake and coffee!
Love this Robyn…I actually just took a bath – I am trying not to wash my hair every day so baths are more common for me now – but often quick. This morning I took time and meditated in the tub. 🙂
I love the reference to how screen time ‘gunk up your soul’ – so well put! I feel it too.
Finally – the last comment about watching weekend TV while eating breakfast reminded me of being a kid and watching Saturday morning cartoons (though breakfast was often cereal – I guess since I rarely have cereal that would be a treat for me!)
Hope the weekend is rejuvenating and relaxing for you…
I love baths!! and cereal..frosted flakes are everything. hope you had a great weekend suzanne and took several baths 🙂 xoxo
Ahh just READING this list made me feel relaxed. Hope you get lots of good recharging time too, Robyn. And thanks for always encouraging us to CARE for ourselves. It goes a long way 🙂
so glad it did 🙂 hope you had a super relaxing weekend and feel refreshed going into the week jacklyn!
Omg. I neeeeeeeeed all of those things. I had a major exam in grad school on Wednesday night and tried to sit down after to do more homework for another class/grade exams (I also teach), but decided to watch two hours of TLC instead. Why is it so hard for us to let ourselves just “be?” Thanks for the reminder. Cake, coffee, and company is food for the soul.
yes so hard! but WHY?! hope you enjoyed a super relaxing weekend filled with lots more TLC 🙂
Well I always have the pancake tradition down 😉
Just lazy around sounds really good right now too! I am tired!
pancakes are the epitome of weekend mornings 🙂
YES to these recommendations. Thank you.
Hope you had an amazing weekend 🙂 xo
I just wanted to say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart- for sharing your knowledge and your passion, for the work you put into your site, and mostly for just being you. Your attitude about food is contagious and even though I only found your site about a week ago, I have found my anxiety lessening and myself relaxing so much about food, and I feel so much happier. I have a history of disordered eating- I have been 240 pounds and I have been 120 pounds and lost my period. Over the past few years I have fallen in love with intuitive eating and have greatly improved but am still a work on progress. Right now I’m working on breaking up with the scale, and I have a constant low-level anxiety about food that has been GREATLY reduced thanks to you. Please keep doing what you’re doing, I absolutely love your videos and also agree with a plant based diet being the healthiest. I am just so greatful to you, you’ve made such a difference in my life in a short period of time. Thank you!
Thank YOU for reading! This was so incredibly sweet and encouraging Rachel 🙂 My heart wants to explode knowing the words written here have resonated with you – know you are not alone and many women are going to be inspired and influenced by your story! Sending you SO much love! xoxo
I know EXACTLY what you mean. Sometimes I feel guilty when it’s the weekend and all my friends and family want to DO stuff and I’m like SOOO TIRED. All I want to do is make pancakes, sit in my PJ’s until 2 p.m., take a bath and then sit and watch tv or read the rest of the day. I feel like I NEED those things to stay sane!
oh my gosh that sounds amazing and something I would love to happen every weekend!!
I just moved to China from NYC and I literally envision myself sitting in Peacefoods eating their strawberry shortcake while sipping on a soy latte, surrounded by people that speak English haha. I’m so glad we’re going home in April and stopping in NYC for a couple days so I can make that a reality!
Love this post;)
haha PF is the best!! carrot cake all day every day 🙂 xoxo
haha PF is the best!! carrot cake all day every day 🙂 xoxo
Praying my daughter takes her own advice!! Love you !!
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Love all of these! I’m actually going out for lunch/to a bakery this afternoon with a friend and I can’t wait. 🙂
ahhh that’s sounds amazing! hope this weekend was great!
Just reading this has made me happier – for these are all the things that feed my soul and bring me back to myself. Everything about this – yes yes yes yes yes. Just yes. I’m so thankful I am now at a point where I truly do partake in these things and enjoy every moment of them. Thanks for the reminder Robyn.
Thanks Robyn for this wonderful post. I am amazed by the fact that I found someone else who happen to share my very passion. I love pancakes and I cant do without them :). Traveling is seeing, guess what I discovered… The 5 Big things to do in Canada you might want to know too. Good Job!
I adore each one of them! This afternoon, a buddy and I have plans to go out to eat at a restaurant or to a bakery, and I really cannot wait.