by Bettina | Aug 9, 2026 | Self-care tips
Last August I spent about a week feeling like a frayed wire — wired and exhausted at the same time, crying at a yogurt advert, lying awake at 2am with my heart going for no reason I could name. Nothing was actually wrong, which somehow made it worse. It took me a few...
by Bettina | Aug 2, 2026 | Self-care tips
It started with a familiar Sunday-night feeling: exhausted, weirdly unsatisfied, and unable to remember where the day had actually gone. I’d “relaxed” all weekend, yet somehow I felt more drained than when I’d clocked off on Friday. When I...
by Bettina | Jul 26, 2026 | Self-care tips
For a long time my Mondays started with that frantic, behind-before-I-begin feeling — and when I finally paid attention, I realized it almost always traced back to a chaotic, unplanned Sunday. I’d spend the weekend avoiding everything, then pay for it all week....
by Bettina | Jul 19, 2026 | Self-care tips
I didn’t think I had a problem — until I checked my screen time and saw the number seven hours, staring back at me like an accusation. Somewhere between the morning scroll, the midday “quick break,” and the late-night doom-scroll, my phone had...
by Bettina | Jul 15, 2026 | Self-care tips
For most of my working life, my evenings looked the same: I’d push through until I collapsed onto the sofa and scrolled my phone in a half-frazzled daze, then wonder why I felt depleted and slept badly. There was no transition between “doing” and...
by Bettina | Jul 8, 2026 | Self-care tips
For years my Sundays were just a frantic catch-up day — laundry, meal prep, errands, and a creeping dread about Monday that started around 4 p.m. I’d end the weekend more tired than I started it. The summer I decided to protect one slow Sunday a month, and then...
