Hi! Love the newsletter. Not trying to sound overly sensitive, but in the remark in an essay about men not having their period, I wanted to make a comment. As a transgender man, there was a time where I did still get my period, and I know many other trans men who still do today. No judgement, just something to take into account in the future <3 keep up the lovely work!
I was listening to an interview with Liz Gilbert recently and she talked about a rule she had established in her life in response to her anxiety and wakefulness. She referred to it as "no horizontal thinking". As in, if she woke and her brain started spinning she would get up, get herself horizontal, and it would shift her brain-- maybe allowing her to get back to sleep, maybe just to get up for the day. It is too cold in the night and I like my bed too much to get all the way up when I'm wakeful in the night, which is increasingly frequent as I head further into perimenopause. But I have found that reading a book on my phone when I wake and my brain starts spinning hijacks my horizontal thinking and at least allows me to feel like I'm using the time in an enjoyable way, rather than lying there ruminating on things I have no control over.
👋 from a fellow Stress Declutterer. I spent the first two weeks of January going through cupboards and drawers in an attempt to wrestle some control onto the world, or at least my little corner of it.
Hope you’re sleeping better. I liked Elizabeth Gilbert’s rule that she shared Ona recent OnBeing episode: no horizontal thinking. If she’s lying down, and the voices won’t quieten, then she just gets up and walks them off.
Hi! Love the newsletter. Not trying to sound overly sensitive, but in the remark in an essay about men not having their period, I wanted to make a comment. As a transgender man, there was a time where I did still get my period, and I know many other trans men who still do today. No judgement, just something to take into account in the future <3 keep up the lovely work!
I was listening to an interview with Liz Gilbert recently and she talked about a rule she had established in her life in response to her anxiety and wakefulness. She referred to it as "no horizontal thinking". As in, if she woke and her brain started spinning she would get up, get herself horizontal, and it would shift her brain-- maybe allowing her to get back to sleep, maybe just to get up for the day. It is too cold in the night and I like my bed too much to get all the way up when I'm wakeful in the night, which is increasingly frequent as I head further into perimenopause. But I have found that reading a book on my phone when I wake and my brain starts spinning hijacks my horizontal thinking and at least allows me to feel like I'm using the time in an enjoyable way, rather than lying there ruminating on things I have no control over.
👋 from a fellow Stress Declutterer. I spent the first two weeks of January going through cupboards and drawers in an attempt to wrestle some control onto the world, or at least my little corner of it.
Hope you’re sleeping better. I liked Elizabeth Gilbert’s rule that she shared Ona recent OnBeing episode: no horizontal thinking. If she’s lying down, and the voices won’t quieten, then she just gets up and walks them off.