Sunday has a weight to it.
It's not quite the weekend anymore, but it's not the week yet either. It's the in-between. The transition zone. And for ADHD brains, transitions are where things get hard.
You can feel Monday approaching. The Sunday scaries, people call it. That low-grade anxiety that builds as the day goes on. The sense that you should be preparing, planning, getting ahead — but you can't quite make yourself do it.
So you scroll. You avoid. You stay up too late, almost like you're trying to delay tomorrow from coming.
I get it. The anticipation of the week is often worse than the week itself.
But here's something to try: instead of fighting Sunday, use it.
Not for productivity. Not for getting ahead. For reset.
A reset isn't about doing more. It's about clearing space. Both physical and mental.
Maybe that means tidying one small area. Not the whole house — one corner, one surface, one drawer. Just enough to feel like something shifted.
Maybe it means writing down everything swirling in your head. Not organizing it. Not making a plan. Just getting it out. Dumping it onto paper so it stops spinning.
Maybe it means laying out tomorrow's clothes. Packing your bag. Making one decision now so you have one less decision in the morning.
Small things. Tiny things. But they add up.
The goal isn't to be ready for Monday. The goal is to be a little less ambushed by it.
And if you can't do any of that? If Sunday is just for surviving? That's okay too. Sometimes the reset is just rest. Sometimes the best preparation for the week is doing absolutely nothing today.
You know what you need. Trust that.
This is ADHD FM. Sunday is for transitions. Go slow.