Instead of a mental health day, what if you take some mental health hours?
From dinner time onwards, switch your phone into airplane mode. Switch it back on when you wake up in the morning.
Then savor analog pleasures, such as playing a board game with your kids, taking out the watercolor palettes that have collected dust on your bookshelf, writing in your journal, reading a book that you’ve started month’s ago.
Or you can start the side hustle you’ve always been thinking about, the novel you’ve always wanted to write or brainstorm the itinerary for your next vacation.
Or you sit with boredom and allow it not to scare you. Maybe you will finally acknowledge emotions that need to be felt. Maybe you’ll come up with new creative ideas. Maybe you will discover why you fell in love with your husband in the first place.
You’ll be surprised at how much time is freed up when you free yourself from your smart phone.
