This Is A Balm.

Yesterday I told Richard ‘I think I need to go running again soon’.

The last six months have been intense; learning to be a mum of two, raising a newborn, two rounds of chickenpox, a lung infection for my husband and being consistent with regaining strength through Pilates., drawing commissions and expanding my bathers series. Intense and boring a lot of the time as it’s been all mostly in the same space - the house.

I’m thankful I have the space to do all those things. And living in a place I love is super. But looking at the same walls for months has been boring.

It’s also not good for thinking through problems I want to solve.

So I need to run again now. All this anger and anxiety needs to be run out of me.

Running (and walking if you don’t like running), and specifically running without music, is very very good for my brain.

I find things on my runs. I mentally find ideas, threads and solutions that pull issues apart or together, whatever direction is positive for said issue.

There’s something about a wondering mind and steady state plodding that unblocks the pipes of my brain.

So today I ran. I didn’t find anything immediately though because I haven’t run in over a year, so my body was hurting a little. But I know it’s coming, the good ideas are going to come soon.

It’s exciting.