Your Weekend Reset

Ready for a weekly reset? Try a few of these tips to unwind, connect, or get creative. We’ve got you covered to make the most of your downtime!

• Visit a used bookstore and ask the owner what their most underrated title is: There’s a kind of intimacy in wandering through a used bookstore, the way each worn spine carries someone else’s fingerprints, someone else’s stories. Take it a step further: ask the owner or bookseller what they think deserves more love. Not what’s popular. Not what’s trending. What moved them. These conversations are little doorways to connection, and sometimes, the right book finds you because someone else believed in it first.

• Walk a path you’ve never taken before: It’s easy to fall into the same loops. Same roads. Same thoughts. So try this: step outside and turn the opposite way you normally would. Take a route you’ve never walked. It doesn’t have to be especially scenic, it just needs to be unfamiliar. There’s something grounding about noticing new details in a place you thought you knew, and it’s a gentle reminder that new perspective is usually just one small choice away.

• Lie on the floor and do absolutely nothing for 15 minutes: Stillness doesn’t come easy to a lot of us, we’re wired for doing, fixing, producing. But stillness? True stillness? That’s brave. Lie down. No music. No phone. No list to make or box to check. Just you, breathing, existing, noticing what rises up when there’s finally enough space to hear it. It’s uncomfortable at first, but it’s also where clarity starts.

• Book Recommendation: A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit - This one’s for when you’re in that weird, in-between space. When you don’t totally know where you’re going next, but you do know you’re not where you used to be. It’s a mix of personal stories and big, curious thoughts about things like memory, nature, trust, getting lost on purpose, and figuring out who you are by wandering a little. It’s not a “how-to” kind of book, it’s more like sitting with someone smart and grounded who makes you feel a little more okay with the unknown.

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