10/15/2026
Story 1: I was out of town and decided to get a massage. Three of my family members were dealing with really heavy loads and navigating difficult situations, and each of them was running through my thoughts like an open tab buffering.
I didn’t know this massage therapist, but told her how stressed I was, and how excited I was for this because I just needed to land. Instead when I laid on the table, she told me all of her and her family’s problems. I’ve got a problem solving brain and couldn’t help jumping on the solution-bandwagon, but it wasn’t how I wanted to spend my time.
I got off the table and still felt amazing. I was so relaxed I no longer felt the need to remember to tell Ethan a story that had stressed me out earlier. I just sort of floated and felt like myself again. My family member’s problems hadn’t changed, but I could put them outside of myself and realize I was okay.
Story 2: I was having a great day at work until I opened my phone to see a gal pal of mine having a mental health crisis. Batches of 20, 30, 40 text messages were rapid fire coming in about a scenario on some alternate timeline that just was not true.
After realizing they weren’t in their right mind and something more serious was going on, I was totally out of sorts. I drove home and it took me a full hour of processing what had happened before I realized that my husband had cleaned the entire house and was cooking a delicious meal. I was so up in my head I didn’t even pick up on my environment.
Those polarizing events happened so close together it was easy for me to appreciate the spectrum of possibilities. Which one do you spend most of your time in, body or mind?