Fitness Fellowship 2023: Week 20 Check-in

When my professional life is particularly stressful and/or busy, I try to visualize myself on the other side of the gauntlet and imagine what that will feel like. I ask myself questions like: What will you do with your time? How will you feel walking down the hall or in your classroom? How will you relate to other people? What will the quality of your sleep be like?

Mental exercises like this can help ease some of my anxiety from having too many socio-professional obligations in too short a span of time.

I'm pleased to report that I'm on the other side of the gauntlet (since Thursday evening, in fact) and am almost through the perseverating over conversations I had stage (I hate this stage; it's miserable). Other than anxiety dreams (the most recent one about spiders, no thank you), I think I'm recovering.

How about you, friends? How do you get yourself through stressful/busy/difficult periods in which you cannot avoid participating? (I consider this different than those stresses we choose, like, for me, going on vacation. With travel anxiety, any trip is fraught, but because I also *want* to have travel adventures, I can mostly manage the stress.) Do you find your fitness levels affected (negatively or positively) by stressful times? (Some of you may be the sort who exercise MORE when things are difficult, for example.)

Please feel in no way obligated to answer any of these ponderings. :-) I'm just curious how other people roll.

Please DO comment with your progress (or lack thereof) fitness-wise or otherwise, though, if you're so inclined.

( My Week in Review )

I hope the week ahead is good one for you, friends.