After a breakup, eating and sleeping on time feels lame. It’s also how you get your footing back.

After something ends, the basics feel insultingly small next to how much it hurts. Meals and bedtimes have nothing to say about heartbreak, which is exactly why they get abandoned first. But sleep and food are what your ability to think rests on, and losing them makes everything else heavier to carry. They do not fix the feeling, they only stop it being joined by exhaustion.

Pick two anchors for the coming week and hold only those: a bedtime and a breakfast. Let the rest be as unproductive as it needs to be. Steady ground underneath makes a hard thing easier to stand in.