As I relax my body, I release all the negative energy around me.

You can carry a day home in your body without ever deciding to. The meeting ended at four and the shoulders do not know that. The grip on the steering wheel is still set for a conversation that finished an hour ago.

Some kind of deliberate ending helps — not a ritual exactly, more a physical full stop. Changing out of the clothes. Two minutes standing outside. A long and entirely unremarkable shower.

It is not that the difficulty disappears. It is that the body stops carrying it forward into an evening that had nothing to do with it.