
Me-treat Time!
Updated: Dec 1, 2020
I try to do a me-treat every year around the end of August.
As opposed to a vacation somewhere in the world, this is my ‘inward-bound’ time. It’s become a critical yearly expedition.
Some years it has been a fully silent, bare-bones affair with seaweed broth and barefoot walks while avoiding eye contact in an idyllic center framed by cow pastures. Others have been more spa-like, with hydro-massage, yoga classes and Chopra audiobooks (his voice tho!), but still with minimal interaction with others.
These me-treats have lasted as long as 2 weeks or as little as 2 days and always with the same guidelines:
Reduced stimuli (news, booze, blue-light…the usual line-up)
Increased nature
A lot of silence
Journaling and meditating
No ‘work’
This year, especially in March when everything closed down, a lot of those things just naturally started happening. So when August rolled around, I had to figure out how to make my me-treat different from just my day-to-day.