It happens every week and yet it blindsides us every time: the Sunday scaries. It’s a very specific, visceral breed of anxiety that’s completely unique to the last day of the week – and it’s enough to make a girl hurl her iPhone out the window if she sees one more meme that says “A Sunday well spent, makes a week of content.” The crushing combination of Monday being just around the corner, the weekend ending, and coming back to earth and realizing everything you have to get done this week – plus the potential for PDA (that’s post drinking anxiety) – is all too real. The only real comfort is knowing that it’s near-universal. Here are the tools in our toolbox that help us try to deal.
Sleep In (but Not Too Late)
I’m an actual monster when it comes to sleep. I can happily sleep 12 hours and wake up feeling exhausted. No exaggeration. And the idea of having to wake up early-ish on a Sunday to do anything resembling productivity puts me in a weird cycle of resenting my alarm, sleeping way too long, and then hating myself for waking up so late. Don’t you do that? Lately I’ve been attempting to allow myself to sleep in an hour or two (or three), but not too late. That way, I have enough time in the day to accomplish everything key to defeating the Sunday scaries. Like…
Allow Yourself a Little More Weekend…
If you make the entire day about getting shit done, you’re going to hate every second of it and never have a productive Sunday again. Allow yourself the morning and early afternoon to do real weekend activities. That can look like a leisurely brunch, shopping, or just allowing yourself to revel in being gross and dealing with your hangover.
