Heading to Greece

I am deeply grateful to be in Greece this week.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how easy it is to turn travel — and honestly life — into something that gets filled up, scheduled, optimized, and slightly rushed… even when it’s supposed to be rest.

A friend asked me what I want to do while I’m here and I said: I want to move slowly.

We’re staying on one island, Naxos, and I don’t really have a packed plan. I want to wake up and not immediately decide what the whole day is going to look like. I want to follow what actually feels good in the moment instead of what I think I “should” be doing.

And I guess I’m sharing this because I know I’m not the only one who has a hard time with that.

Even at home, even in “rest,” even in the spaces that are supposed to feel spacious… there can still be this low-level rush in the background. A sense that we should be doing more with our time.

So this trip feels like a practice in not doing that.

Less planning. Less rushing. More noticing what’s actually here.

In my work as a massage therapist and somatic practitioner, I see this same pattern all the time — how hard it can be for the nervous system to truly downshift, even when we want to rest. Sometimes we need real space, repetition, and support to remember what slowing down actually feels like in the body.

This trip feels like part of that practice for me too.

I hope you get some version of that — in whatever your version of slowing down looks like.

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