Healing Modalities

I did my own little darkness retreat in my room, where I completely blacked out everything. It was pitch black, and I stayed in there for three days and reflected on the chaotic evil summer that I had. During some of my most depressed, gray years, when I had a brief stint in college, which was also during COVID, I decided to take the second semester of the year off rather than go online. People were talking about woofing, which stands for worldwide opportunities on organic farms. You can volunteer almost anywhere in the world, and have free food and lodging, and help people, usually on farms. While I was woofing, I really enjoyed it. I do think it mitigated a lot of the depressive symptoms because I was in this routine. You wake up, the farmer is like, okay, here is the plan. A lot of it is just weeding. I realized that I like menial labor.