Drats! I was hoping it was going to be night sweats because I’ve got a badass trick for that one (thank you potty training toddlers! Who knew we’d be grateful for that someday?).
Wrecked the next day is the hardest thing I know of. Personally I’ve only been able to nix it 2 ways...
- Walking outside and diving into a pool (resets me like nothing else does) followed by coffee and a plan of attack for the day that I’m actually excited about (or deeply engaged in) so it’s a bit of a 2 pronged attack - Reset & Redirect. But I don’t have a pool in my backyard. And the time it takes to get to the public pool? It’s like the mood had already stuck. Nice exercise, but my mood is going to be in the gutter for awhile, and my head in the past.
- Chemical kick to the ass. Meaning breaking out my emergency meds (like Valium). But that’s not something I can do every day, both because of addiction issues, and because my Rx is very very tiny. Intermittent I can do, but if I’m in a nightmare cycle? I’m screwed.
I don’t know if either of those 2 things are as useless to you, as they are to me. But maybe someone else will have a badass trick for the mental/emotional reset.
