Peace needs maintenance like a car. Skip the oil changes and it breaks down at the worst time.

Calm is not a state you arrive at, it is a system that needs regular attention or it degrades. Sleep, food, time alone, the friend you talk to honestly: skip those long enough and the failure does not announce itself. It shows up on the worst possible day, in the worst possible conversation.

Pick the one piece of your upkeep you have been letting slide and put it back this week. Not all of them, one. Schedule it like an appointment, because the whole point is that it happens before you notice you need it.