My shoulders have been so tight for weeks that I finally admitted it’s not posture, it’s the job. So I started getting up 20 minutes earlier than my usual alarm, just to sit with coffee and not touch my phone first thing. No inbox, no Slack, nothing with a red dot on it.
First few days I kept reaching for the phone out of habit, my hand just knew where it was on the nightstand. Somewhere around day 4 it got easier, I actually started looking forward to that quiet stretch. Been using some of it to tweak my resume too since I’m quietly job hunting, a line or two at a time, nothing dramatic.
Still get the tension headaches most afternoons, that part hasn’t fixed itself. But mornings feel less like bracing for impact lately. Sticking with the 20 minutes for now.