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Marianna's avatar

Parenting a toddler is exhausting. Full stop. Love your plan for self-care through this season of life. Also, I enjoy reading nature books (my personal favorites are about people who’ve undertaken long walks, i.e. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn.) Yet I am most definitely not an outdoors person, and would rather jump off a cliff than rough camp for nights on end while walking to exhaustion every day! I think I enjoy reading these books to absorb the lessons the author learned, but in a way more in keeping with my natural tendencies.

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Justin Bajema's avatar

I am 100% with you on feeling drained by all the tasks with no space left for myself. At times life feels like this never ending stream of tasks and I just want to hit pause for a while. I also love the way you're leaning into nature. I've always been drawn to nature, but in the years since Sarah got sick, it's taken on an increasingly important role. Early on I spent many mornings standing in a river fly fishing while grieving the life we thought we'd have and trying to process what lay in front of us. These days I'm more often out birding or walking with our dog Mosey, but the act of being in nature is just as powerful. There is something about being present in a space that is so much bigger than you and being able to stop and just observe everything around you that I find really helpful for getting out of my head and grounding myself.

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