Y’all know I’m a big believer in downtime. There are only about 100,000 benefits to it. In our productivity-, optimization-, doing-obsessed culture, there are too few voices speaking up for downtime.
One of the big benefits of downtime is the processing of our lives that happens during that time. Processing is the magical activity required to keep you the kind, optimistic, emotionally generous person you want to be.
I’m writing about the what, why and (most important) how of processing your life here, at Charlie Gilkey’s blog, Productive Flourishing. Processing sounds big and vague and 1980’s pop-psychology-esque, but hopefully this post will make it feel practical, doable, and non-hokey-woo-woo.
Please come visit over there, and if you like, and share your thoughts.
Oh, and one more thing. If you are a mom or love a mom, check out my recent Huff Post article “Mommy Guilt or Mommy Wisdom?” about how to recognize and deal with that destructive voice of mommy guilt.
Love,
Tara
How Do You Process Your Life?
I like how you put that we process our lives during downtime. I completely agree with that. Downtime is something that we all need on our journey to self-improvement. Well said, Tara.
Hi Tara,
I love your post on Mommy guilt or Mommy wisdom – when I was reading it, I felt like you’d actually been in my head! The other interesting thing is how advertising play on Mommy guilt (often dressed up as wisdom, but if you listen to the words, it’s guilt pure and simple). Boy, have they figured out how to press the buttons! Wonderful post, should be handed out to all mothers at the hospital. Perhaps it’s the first chapter in the Mommy manual that we all talk about, but none of us seem to have received yet???
Topi 🙂