レイチェル・ブレイセンのインスタグラム(yoga_girl) - 11月28日 22時49分

This vacation. I’ve read 4 books. Swam every day. Cooked. Spent time with friends. I haven’t taken a single photo. Kept my phone stashed away in my suitcase. Didn’t wear a scrap of makeup. Watched the baby run into the ocean, shrieking with laughter, again and again. Tried to windsurf with her (she hated it). Jumped off the dock with her (she loved it). Dennis went diving every day. I dove once. We did a night dive and it was not even a little bit scary. The dark ocean was comforting, somehow. We’ve seen donkeys and horses and flamingos and pink lakes and turtles and laid out in the sun and drank wine and ate food and every day I’d wake up to the sound of the baby singing and also to the sound of silence.⁣
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Disconnecting from everything has made me realize the absolute absurdity of being connected all the time. I work all the time. All. The. Time. I don’t know how else to explain it. Just... All the time. If I’m not leading retreats or trainings or teaching I’m in meetings or answering emails or putting out fires or answering questions or recording podcast or editing the book or filming or writing or fixing or planning or posting to social media - I’m ALWAYS ON. I never take a break. Even when I “take a break”, I don’t really. I stay on. I never knew where my off-button was. Turns out, I do have one. I have to put absolutely everything away and turn my phone off and tell everyone they can’t reach me unless there is a real life emergency and even then, call Dennis. And then it takes me reading two crime novels and one whimsical romance novel and one memoir and baking two batches of cinnamon buns and cooking veggie curry and making chickpea burgers and trying out a new recipe for a salted caramel tarte and spending 12 hours a day so present with my daughter we merge into one single being and then, by the 100th swim in the bluest ocean and the millionth hug from my husband, then, and only then, does the button begin to move. Slowly. It doesn’t go from on to off. It goes from on to... Less on. And now it’s been 5 days and I woke up this morning smiling. ⁣
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So! Dennis is going back to working full time. Me? I’m going on maternity leave✌️??‍♀️

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