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Christine practices winding down

Christine Hennebury
Star shaped holiday lights hang in a darkened window.

I decided to leave these up when I took down the rest of my holiday decorations because I find them cherry and their glow is restful. Image description: a photo of my bedroom window at night with a series of star shaped lights hanging in it. The lights alternate between a large star shape. It’s just the outline of the star with the lights within the outline and a smaller star that is a full star with a light in each point. Each individual star hangs on a lit string from the mean line that goes across the top. There is a series of knickknacks on my windowsill - a couple of rocks, an empty flower pot, a small tea cup with ceramic fllowers on top of it, a ladybug candle holder, a teeny replica of the leaning tower of Pisa, a beetle, and a small green figurine. There is a group of five bells hanging from the thing you used to open the window, and my ukulele is hanging on the wall next to the window. There is a gray curtain on one side and a green plant in a gray flower pot hanging in a macramé hanger on the other side.

There’s a certain irony in when I’m writing this post.

You see, during December and January when I’m writing daily ‘Making Space’ or ‘Go Team’ posts, I occasionally forget that I also need to write my regular Tuesday post.

And that’s what happened today.

The irony comes in because this post that I’m writing at 10:41PM on Monday is about how I’m trying to do a better job of winding down before bed. Obviously I do a better job on some days than on others.

Like a lot of people with ADHD I often end up, trying to cram a lot of stuff into my evening and I sometimes find it hard to switch out of doing mode and start getting ready for bed.

But I do know that a good wind down routine helps me to switch modes and get ready to rest so I’ve been working on that.

Last week I mentioned that I have found that evening is a good time to do yoga.

And that practice has become a key part of helping me wind down for the evening.

However, I’m now ready to add something else to my routine, but I haven’t quite figured out what that is yet.

I thought about adding journaling, but it’s all too easy for me to either slip into writing a lot or avoiding writing because I don’t want to write a lot.

I don’t want to add more exercise because that will wake me up again.

I already read once I get in bed so that wouldn’t be extending anything.

The obvious thing to add is meditation, but I’m finding myself resisting that for some reason.

And the only other thing I can think of is to do some sort of drawing before I go to sleep.

But if I decide to do that, going to have to figure out something specific or related to draw each evening, so I don’t get caught up in a decision loop.

Quick question: Does this type of thinking happened to everyone or is this an ADHD thing?

Obviously, the next step in this process is to start experimenting and I had planned to start that experiment this evening.

But now that it is 10:55PM, I think the experiment will have to wait till tomorrow night.

I’m just going to do a short yoga practice, get my pyjamas on, and tuck myself into bed with my book.

Khalee thinks I am foolish for staying up just to do yoga. I tried to argue that she was doing downward dog just a second ago but she’s having none of it. Image description: a photo of my dog in profile as she sits on my bed. The photo really only shows her from the collar up and shows one of her paws. Khalee is light haired and medium sized and is lying on a blue blanket with some pillow in the background. Her head is raised slightly off the blanket so she’s not in full rest mode.

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