🌿Supplies Request: More Kindness, Please

Date: 21 July 2025
From: Office of Emotional Wellbeing
To: The Part of Me That Feels Guilty Resting
Subject: Restocking Request – Guilt-Free Rest

Today’s entry is a quiet note slipped into the supplies drawer – a gentle ask for softer things.
Not just tea and naps (though I’ll take those too), but also kindness. Permission. Breathing space.

I’m taking a short break. And yet, I feel I owe an explanation.
A defense. A productivity spreadsheet.
Something to prove I’m still “on track.”

But maybe… this is the track.
Maybe this moment – of stillness, of catching my breath – is the very thing I needed.

So today, I’m requesting a small restock of the following:

• 1x guilt-free pause
• 2x reminders that I am not behind
• 1x silent celebration of “doing nothing” well
• And a generous handful of: “I’m allowed to just be”

Rest is not a detour. It’s the quiet ground things grow from.

Signed,
Team Lead, Office of Emotional Wellbeing 🌿
(requesting extra pillows for this week’s meetings with myself)