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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here - I feel like from the minute I wake up at 6:30am until the minute the kids are finally asleep at 9pm I don’t have a single minute to myself. Either a kid needs something, someone at work needs something or my husband needs something. Or my dog needs something.

[b]My only “me time” is working out 30 minutes a day. Or walking my dog and I can listen to a podcast. 
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It is exhausting day in and day out for the past decade. [/quote]

Not sure this will help, but when I spend time working out or walking the dogs and listening to an audiobook/podcast, I try to be fully present and appreciate the solitude of the moment. Another thing I do is only watch TV that I am sitting down for on purpose. My husband will scroll or watch random things but then he feels like he has "wasted" an hour. I will sit down for an hour only to watch something I am looking forward to and enjoy. I fully admit to wasting time on my phone (ahem, like right now), but even then I try to acknowledge that this is my down time and appreciate it for what it is. I guess that's mindfulness, although I haven't really studied that idea much, but maybe you get the idea. [/quote]

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