Viadcoms

Last week, we started talking about psychological decompression and being able to slow down enough during the festive season to “catch enough time to care for yourself” and recuperate after a long year.

One of such techniques is colouring. The festive season can be joyful but overwhelming too. Expectations, social commitments, and emotional overload can quietly push the nervous system into overdrive.

Colouring offers a simple way to slow things down. You do need to be purposeful about it, though.

The repetitive motion, gentle focus, and predictability can help the body shift out of stress mode and into a place of calm.

This is why therapeutic colouring can be especially helpful at this time of year.

Here is a page from one of our favourite resources, inspired by a garden rose.

Pause here. Breathe. And colour if you can. Then continue your day a little softer and slower.

You’ll be surprised at how relaxing colouring can be.

How are you planning to decompress over the coming break?

The festive season is a great time for catching up with friends, families and dare I say house work that has been left undone whilst we were at work 🤭.

Somehow though, we came out of the break that comes with the festive season exhausted.

What was meant to be a break turned out to be a race to catch up on everything and everyone we couldn’t whilst we worked throughout the year.

Decompressing is a key part of re-energising ourselves and replenishing our energy.
In other words, catching up with our own ‘self’.

Sadly, that’s one person we often forget!

At VIADCOMS, we believe that intentionally replenishing our energy and spending time on and with our ‘self’ helps attain a higher level of psychological grounding that keeps us functioning well from day to day.

Over the next few days, we will wind 2025 down by talking about decompression tools and techniques you can use to ‘catch up with yourself’ during the break that comes with the festive season.