{"id":966,"date":"2009-10-20T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/?p=966"},"modified":"2009-10-20T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T18:34:21","slug":"bouncing-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/2009\/10\/20\/bouncing-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouncing Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we all have to accept some down times, along with our positivity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I did some (not all) of the promised exercise and other goodness\u00a0that I said I would do last week.\u00a0 I&#8217;m proud to say that I managed to do some real self-care, on my own this weekend.\u00a0 Self-care looked like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cleaning up my room (or started by putting clothes away and doing laundry)<\/li>\n<li>walking my dog<\/li>\n<li>shopping (got a new ski helmet that\u00a0I think is pretty nice!)<\/li>\n<li>yoga<\/li>\n<li>climbing at the indoor gym<\/li>\n<li>running (I don&#8217;t run, but I&#8217;m trying to get in shape)<\/li>\n<li>connecting with some friends I haven&#8217;t talked to in a while<\/li>\n<li>making good nutritious meals at home (instead of eating out all the time)<\/li>\n<li>going to my favourite coffee shop (and drinking rooibos americanos instead of coffee)<\/li>\n<li>staying in bed after I woke up, for an extra hour to read my book<\/li>\n<li>getting a lot of sleep<\/li>\n<li>breakfast at the elbow room with a friend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(wow, that seems like a busy weekend, but it was really quite relaxed!)<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, I was amazed to wake up to find myself: Happy!\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what happened, really, but I haven&#8217;t woken up full of sunshine and cheer in a long time.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s a little harder to keep that perspective today, as my neck is killing me and a headache seems to be inching slowly up my left shoulder and into my brain, but I seem to have managed to gain a little more perspective and a little more positivity.\u00a0 So that is good news to share!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m focused a lot on managing stress and taking care of myself this week.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how things go.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">My Best Thing Today:\u00a0 Waking up well rested this morning to do some yoga in the living room before getting ready for work.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we all have to accept some down times, along with our positivity.\u00a0 I did some (not all) of the promised exercise and other goodness\u00a0that I said I would do last week.\u00a0 I&#8217;m proud to say that I managed to do some real self-care, on my own this weekend.\u00a0 Self-care looked like this: cleaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":774,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}