[LOCUTOR]

Track fifteen, unit seven, with time on your hands

[MULHER]

[…] Next is one of my all-time favorite hobbies. I'm probably gonna include this in like every cozy hobby list for every season. Although I don't think I did it for summer but it's perfect for summer too, coloring book, coloring in general, coloring coloring, coloring... I love coloring as a hobby. It is such a good way to just unwind, turn your brain off to really be mindful and present in what you're doing. And also be able to like take in some other forms of media if you want to, like I often color while I'm listening to an audiobook, while I'm listening to a podcast, kind of multitask in your hobbies, but also, if you don't wanna do any of that and you really do just wanna practice kind of mindfulness calm yourself down, unwind coloring is such a good tool for that. Back when I was very, very anxious, because of the job I was working, it was one of my go tos, like nightly, I would whip out my coloring book and would instantly make me feel so much better. It would instantly make me feel so much more present and I could kind of pass through in my head what really was stressing me out and what was valid versus the things that I was kind of catastrophizing. Right. Just such a good way I just I am such a huge advocate for coloring as a means to ground you in terms of mental health, but then also just it's a really fun hobby even if you're not dealing with any kind of anxiety or you don't need to be grounded in any way. Like I said you can just do it with a bunch of other activities and it's so fun, and then you have like a pretty little picture to look at after. […]