go to bed
Not when there is nothing more to do
And nothing left to say
But when the amount of things waiting to be expressed
Requires it.
original posted on my social media
13 July 2023
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Retrieved, story added and reposted Dec 2025
There are few moments I remember more vividly from the memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” than the moment Elizabeth Gilbert is on the bathroom floor sobbing because her marriage and life are falling apart.
For the first time in her adult life she turns to God, in prayer.
She asks God what she should do, and God answers:
“Go to bed Liz.”
Sometimes life is so overwhelming that we forget the basics of our self-care.
But it also reminds me of a quote I definitely have no recollection of where I heard it or who said it, but it is a pretty well known one.
It’s about a wisdom that you need sit for an x amount of time in meditation every day.
Except when you’re really busy:
Then it’s double.
We’re so busy solving the not-working things that come on our path, or investing in the goals we want to accomplish, dedicating entire chapters of our life to them;
That the day-to-day seems expendable.
Something we can brush aside until we have sorted all that other shit out.
Except, of course;
It isn’t.
You cannot go without sleep, or social life, or keeping your house in good shape.
Regardless of you not remembering five years from now if you attended to them or not.
But on a deeper level, it will have made all the difference if the upcoming years you live by what you know to be true in the area of self-care;
Or if you let it be overwritten by every other urgent thing.
The way I am tackling it recently, is that I dedicate just as much planning and strategy to the self-care as to the rest.
It has its own journal/ planner.
It’s own daily moment of reflection of how the past 24 hours went and what can be improved.
It’s the pillar that says:
You are more than just your work.
You are still human.
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~Suzanne Beenackers
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