The members of the Student Life Editorial Board share their methods on how to de-stress safely during this fall.

“Time after time, I see people pushing the idea that if you’re not spending your time at home taking on some new project, you’re wasting it.”

“When does distancing become seclusion, and how can we walk the line between vitally important distance and unhealthy isolation?”

Taking a year off to let yourself breathe and to spend time on yourself can allow you to come back with a freshened enthusiasm for education.

The key to a successful project of self-improvement is mindset. Do not frame your resolution in terms of absolute success or failure.

Maybe working too much has been holding us back.

Here are a few tips from the editorial board to help you avoid the dark sadness that envelops us all at this time of year.

Why have we stopped playing?

As students, we’ve turned being busy into a sort of competition, perpetuating a mentality of “if you’re not suffering, you’re doing it wrong.” We don’t realize how detrimental this to our overall wellbeing.

Whether your stress outlet is shopping, eating, or if you’re me, cleaning and exercising, there are ways to rethink small actions in ways that can benefit the very environmental crisis that is making us stressed.