The Beauty of Being on DND: Finding Peace in the Pause

Lately, I’ve been on Do Not Disturb and OMG I am enjoying it! Not because something happened. Not because I was hiding, but because I needed silence — the kind that doesn’t just quiet the world, but settles the soul.

For weeks, my mind and body had been whispering for rest. I kept pushing through, telling myself to keep showing up, to stay productive, to keep doing. But there comes a point when “doing” becomes noise — and I could feel it drowning out my peace. I silenced the notifications, let the to-do lists wait, and gave myself permission to just be.

Sleep. Breath. Space...

Time to move slowly. Time to think gently. Time to exist without expectation. Realizing I didn’t want to be in progress mode every moment of my life. I didn’t want to keep striving for balance while denying myself rest. What I wanted was to be tuned in — not to everything around me, but to the voice within me.

And that’s what these few weeks have meant to me: choosing stillness over striving.

Choosing to protect my peace.

Choosing to care for the woman I am, not just the one I’m becoming.

Being on DND hasn’t been about shutting the world out — it’s been about finding my way back.