#26 - Nervous Energy

 Nervous Energy - Have you ever had those days where nothing seems to fit and the more you think the more anxious you get? I have recently. Where I feel mentally drained, but still wide awake. My brain is going in directions that I didn't even know were possible. Everything I do to release my anxiety only winds me up all the more. It's an absolutely exhausting cycle.

Yet thankfully I'm learning that there are a few things that quiet my mind on these days, and it ain't yoga. Nah, I prefer more active forms of brain detox... i.e. running until my legs beg me to stop, dancing to salsa music, and finally my own art therapy, self-portraits. *sigh now I can finally sleep.

A Coffee Moment...

Today after lunch the Thai brother comes into the room with his 3rd or 4th cup of coffee for the day. His mom mumbles something about how he drinks coffee just like it is water.He defends himself:"I drink 6 or 7 coffees a day so that I won't fall asleep," he said sincerely.Sure that makes sense. 6 or 7 is a lot, but I lived through college. I understood him.But then I ask him, 'So then why do you always have to drink one cup of coffee just seconds before bedtime?'"If I no drink coffee,' he said 'I sleep no good."I tell him that he's nuts and then hand him a caffeine addict anonymous card.Coffee logic. It's amazingly delicious :)