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Knitting is meditation with needles, an hour without your phone, which honestly is the whole point. The breathing room is the rest of the package: what I do myself to get my shoulders down. Something warm in a mug, a bit of breathing, a bit of listening to the body. No right answers, just what works for me.
Half a litre you mix yourself for next to nothing. With what the research actually says about the salt — including the part that is not on the packet.
The evening cocoa I make when my head will not settle. Raw cacao, ashwagandha and reishi.
Strikkenomaden — the knitting nomad — was just a name that sounded fun. Then I moved from snow to heat, and it turned out to be true.
The dullest tea in the cupboard, and the only one with randomised trials behind it on sleep. With a method that is a little more than pouring water on a bag.
Turmeric, ginger and a pinch of pepper. The pepper is not seasoning — it is the reason any of the rest makes it into your body at all.
Caffeine that does not arrive alone. Theanine comes in the same cup, and the combination is what the research has measured — calmly awake rather than shaky.