Apparently if you cup your hands under cold water running from the faucet in the sink and then plunge your face into the cold water you caught in your hands and then inhale slightly through your nose so you’ve almost snorted water up your nose, your body activates something called the “mammalian diving response,” which tricks your nervous system into a state of alertness because, get this, your brain is under the impression that you are under water, so it has to keep you from fucking drowning. It slows down your heart, your breathing. It calms you down enough to think.

This is everything to me.

It’s also like the entire first half of my skincare routine anymore