I have found that when I am feeling stressed, which is increasingly often this year, I have been finding it difficult to come up with ways to cope and distract myself. I am also very sensitive about putting my stress out into the world as I really don’t want to be the person who throws a sourdough loaf at somebody in the supermarket for blocking the aisle.

My possibly unorthodox solution has been watching compilations of dashcam footage on YouTube, and just relaxing and letting the road rage inciting incidents (poor driving not accidents) just play out while I just breathe and remain calm. I am sure I am just reinventing the wheel here, and this is just some sort of immersion therapy (possibly not the right term). There is something amazing about watching stressful situations and not being able to just concentrate on keeping your heart rate just high enough that your Apple watch doesn’t try to alert medical authorities for you.

I’m noticing that I am also calling people DUMBARSE less when I am driving in actual traffic lately, which has to be a good thing…