03/02/2026
Day ONE of 4/4 kids back at school and kinder.
Something I learnt long ago was that recalibration of your nervous system isn’t optional… The seasons change and so does the way our body responds.
Seven weeks of disrupted sleep, later nights, more social outings and in general more noise than usual. Beautiful, messy and memorable moments. But there’s also fewer predictable rhythms…
Nothing is dramatic, just enough change for the body to start recognising something is off, and then it starts responding differently.
This is usually how it shows up, not as collapse, not as burnout, but as a subtle loss of tolerance, a sense that familiar systems are running under slightly different conditions.
Sleep can still be prioritised, earlier nights taken, good intentions in place, and yet the body wakes unrestored, broken sleep doing its quiet work in the background, the kind that doesn’t register as outta control but accumulates all at the same.
In those moments, the instinct is often to compensate, to add structure, intensity, optimisation, to treat it like a motivation issue.
But it isn’t.
When sleep is fragmented and demand has been high for a sustained period, the system doesn’t need pushing, it needs stabilising.
So the focus narrows.
Mornings become quieter, light comes before stimulation, food becomes more predictable, protein-forward, grounding rather than energising. Coffee can stay but it comes with or after the important stuff..
Work happens in contained blocks, without blending roles, without decision-making bleeding into everything else. Spicy brains in particular need this.
The body is given somewhere to offload what it’s been holding, not through effort, but through release.
Nothing radical changes on the surface, and yet the internal environment begins to settle.
This isn’t a reset in the dramatic sense, not a reinvention or a fresh start, just maintenance, the kind that allows the system to keep functioning without tipping into depletion.
And this is often the work that matters most, the work that goes unnoticed because it looks simple, boring even, but quietly restores capacity before something louder forces the issue.
RECALIBRATION ❤️