'I call it a cold rinse, which sounds nicer to me than cold shower, which even typing out now makes me recoil'
Photo: SuperStock/Getty Images My friend Logan Sachon has been talking for years about how great it is to end her daily shower with a blast of cold water. Last year I took her advice, and it was powerful and joyful, but it also took courage every time, and eventually I stopped doing it.
This Atlantic piece on the twisted history of the modern indoor shower inspired me to ask Sachon about her own cold-showering origin story.
I call it a cold rinse, which sounds nicer to me than cold shower, which even typing out now makes me recoil.My brother has taken cold showers for years and has recommended them for mood and health, and in high school our German teacher used to recommend them to avoid sickness. But I don’t like physical pain, and so I was never attracted by these recommendations. And then a year ago at work I was overcome with this overwhelming feeling of depression.
Anyway, so I looked up depression cures, and while they did recommend apple cider vinegar, there was also a contingent of people recommending cold showers. And some of the comments were so compelling that just the hope of doing this thing got me through the rest of the day. As soon as I got home I took a cold shower and it worked! I felt so much better. I mean I felt awful while it was happening, but then so much better after. And so I kept doing it every time I took a shower.
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