Can play be the antidote to urgency?

What if it were the very thing that could restore our sense of wholeness, returning us to our center when the world around us is in chaos?

Hello.

One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2023 was to take naps without setting an alarm.

It might seem silly, but allowing myself to rest without an alarm is pretty revolutionary for me. In college, I was so sleep-deprived I’d often start my day with a countdown of how many hours it would be until I could rest again. Seventeen hours, nineteen hours…I’…