The Importance of Practicing Self-Care in Unexpected Moments
Who knew fixing a shower drain would be so therapeutic?
Self-care comes in all shapes and sizes — and I never expected it to come out of unclogging my shower drain. And, especially these days, we have to take all the self-care we can get.
When people say they’re bored in quarantine, I always wonder how: Despite being severely underemployed (after having lost most of my writing jobs due to the pandemic), I still feel I don’t get enough things done each day. I mean, just yesterday alone, I wanted to write more, work on some passion projects, update my online writing portfolio, the list goes on and on …
And to spice things up, some DIY home projects have kept me fairly busy lately, too: a broken refrigerator, a clogged shower drain, and a clogged sink drain. (Maybe the Universe thought I needed to work on my home-improvement skills?)
It’s not like I haven’t done home improvement tasks in the past … I just can’t remember when — aside from a DIY paint job gone awry, like the time I decided to paint my Venice, California bathroom yellow and red and never finished one wall. Ever.
Yes, I’d lived alone before, but when I thought about it, for the past 3+ years of my nomadic life in Europe, there’s been someone…
