🌲 The hardest part of coming home from the woods...

Unplugging was heaven, but stepping back into reality hits like a brick wall. On Wednesdays We Wear Scales 🦎💅 A midweek check-in from your favorite pink-haired reptile nurse. Hey! If you look at the photo below, you’ll see me in my absolute happy place: sitting on a log, surrounded by pines, breathing in fresh mountain air, and completely unplugged from the world. Out in the woods, everything is quiet. Your mind finally gets a chance to slow down, the constant demands of daily life completely evaporate, and you remember what it feels like to just be. It was pure, unadulterated bliss. But as anyone who loves the outdoors knows, the hardest part of going off the grid is coming back. The second vacation ends and your feet hit real life again, reality comes crashing back in like a ton of bricks. So for Issue #38, we are stripping away the formal agenda. No Featured Creature, no Product Spotlight, just a real, honest check-in. 🌲 Holding Onto the Peace When Life Gets Heavy Going from total peace straight into the high-stakes, fast-paced grind of everyday life is an absolute shock to the system. It leaves you feeling frazzled, drained, and wondering how the quiet calm of the woods slipped away so fast. I’m holding onto the feeling in that photo today. Being a keeper, an ER vet tech, and a human means that some weeks are just plain hard, and the transition back into real life can feel completely overwhelming. Giving ourselves grace during the post-vacation crash isn't weakness, it's necessary. We can't always control how fast or hard reality comes rushing back at us, but we can choose to take a slow, deep breath, protect our energy, and take things one single step at a time. 💬 Thank You for Being Here To every single one of you who opens this newsletter every week: thank you for creating a space where I can just show up as a real human, even on the weeks where the transition back to reality feels heavy and exhausting. We’ll get back to our usual creature spotlights, clinical tips, and cool husbandry gear next week once I’ve had a chance to catch my breath and find my rhythm again. But for today, I’m holding onto that campsite feeling a little longer. MY WEBSITE Visit Our Socials Sweet Ave Pawtucket, RI 02861 View in browser You are getting this email because you've subscribed to sweetavezoo at beacons.ai/sweetavezoo. If you'd like to stop receiving these emails, you can unsubscribe from the list.