{"id":8771,"date":"2025-12-08T00:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8771"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:11:52","slug":"retro-twenty-twenty-five-day-three-four-oh-go-easy-on-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/08\/retro-twenty-twenty-five-day-three-four-oh-go-easy-on-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"[retro twenty twenty-five day three four oh]: go easy on yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some days you just don’t feel right. Other days you realize, you’re not actually well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I found out late Friday that I’ve actually been sick – congestion, sore throat, and headaches kicked in pretty bad, followed by some pretty serious gastrointestinal upset most of the day Saturday. And, if I’m honest with myself, I haven’t felt great since Thanksgiving, when I also thought I might have been coming down with something and then decided that I had fought it off. More or less likely I have been fighting it off the whole time, and was simply not paying close enough attention to my body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depressingly, I’m wont to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I took it easy Saturday afternoon once I knew what was going on, cutting back on my errands and trying to give my body a chance to relax. I did the same thing the next morning (breaking the illusion of the retro blogging, I know) and slept in rather than go to church. By the midafternoon, I was feeling better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes you need to go easy on yourself, but it also requires paying attention to what your body needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: A pair of tomato sandwiches I made at home, which itself was taking a break from my normal Saturday hit-Panera-then-run-errands routine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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