Exercising vs. Resting

One thing that helps me when I start to feel immensely guilty for choosing to sleep in the morning instead of exercise? I remind myself: one exercises not to Do What They’re Supposed To Do and/or for Punishment for [insert absurd reason, like eating, resting a lot over the week, etc.] but to take care of their health. And one rests to also take care of their health.

It does feel good to me to get up, have a hearty breakfast, comb my afro, and then go power walking outside with the early morning sunshine.

But it also feels good to roll over and go back to sleep if that’s what my body tells me it needs instead.

I remind myself that by choosing rest over activity is simply choosing another way to take care of and honor my health. I lose nothing either way.