DAY 3 — Shake It Off (Literally)

Sorting and dropping is mental. But your body still remembers. If you don’t give it somewhere to go, the stress sits there like bad leftovers. You’re not “fine.” You’re marinating in cortisol.

What I’m learning now is to give my body an exit route. It doesn’t have to be pretty or perfect, just deliberate:

• Move. A 5-minute walk outside, a quick gym session, a stretch between emails. Anything that gets blood moving.
• Breathe. Try the simplest box-breathing: in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4. Three rounds is usually enough to feel the edges soften.
• Get loud. Blast one song you can stomp or dance to, or slam a cabinet—sometimes that really is therapy.
• Write it out. One messy line in a journal, a text draft you’ll never send, even dumping it into a chat with an AI. Just get it out of your head.

No one’s grading your form. Motion, breath, sound, words—these are medicine. Cabinets were built for dramatic exits.

So when you’ve been carrying around stress that doesn’t belong to you, don’t just think it away—shake, breathe, move, or write it out.

Give it somewhere to go so you can move on.