Girl Go to SLEEP! Ft. Lessons From Night Life, Grad School, and Strangers
These apps work just like cocaine⁶— the first ten or fifteen minutes are the best and then you spend the rest of that time chasing that high. Release yourself from the moral weight of putting your phone down. Use that time to read
Ismatu Gwendolyn • Girl Go to SLEEP! Ft. Lessons From Night Life, Grad School, and Strangers
Engaging in movement activities where you get to think with your body (intuitive dancing, walks without your phone, weightlifting, swimming, bicycling) help remind you that you are not a walking mind. You are and you have a body. If we’re talking about sleep, then we also need to be talking about ways to make that sound enticing to your physical, c
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Most of her life was spent between Denny’s and another restaurant. How do you tell someone like that to sleep more? “Take magnesium?” How do you compare grinding for an elite degree that still opens doors for me to grinding to pay your rent because you get paid singular dollars on the hour?
Ismatu Gwendolyn • Girl Go to SLEEP! Ft. Lessons From Night Life, Grad School, and Strangers
This is what I'm so mf'n passionate about. How do we make #wellness accessible just in the cultural sense, or even the financial sense - but to be purely equitable. To the unfathomable sense. It's the only wellness DOES make sense
Your doom scrolling is not saving the world.
Ismatu Gwendolyn • Girl Go to SLEEP! Ft. Lessons From Night Life, Grad School, and Strangers
But all the new shiny products of capitalism are incentivized to trick us into thinking so. They prey on our values/morals and twist them to their end.