I made a really beautiful decision today. When I went to mail a letter mid-morning, I felt how nice it was outside. Sunny, only in the low 50s, but it has been so cold here that it felt heavenly. So at my lunch break, I went over to my parents’ house and worked out on their deck all afternoon.
Their deck creates its own microclimate with the way the sun beats on it, and at one point the temperature read 70 degrees where everywhere else was in the mid-50s. Like I said: heavenly.
So for my string of meetings, I sat outside and let my skin get the vitamin D it’d been desperately craving. I let my brain get the sunshine it desperately needed. I really do feel like I am solar-powered.
I’ve been struggling the past few weeks and simply making the call to switch up my environment when I saw the opportunity today was one of the best proactive steps I could have taken for my mental health. I’d put it equivalent to getting myself to a therapist again — fresh air is so healing. And it makes it feel like summer, like warmer days to come.
I feel very grateful today that I had the mobility and flexibility to switch up my environment. And that I had such a lovely spot to work, with great company, just a mile down the road.
With Love,
Natalie