Wake up early.
Yoga. Breathwork.
Warm lemon water.
Tongue scraping.
Nourishing breakfast.
Face massage.
Proper skincare.
Washing and caring about teeth.
Hair ritual.
Dressing up and be pretty and express yourself.
Feet excercises.
It took about 2-3 hours maybe? And your dog is still waiting to go for a pee-walkie.
I love rituals. I love slowing down. I love tuning into my body. But sometimes I find myself deep in the self-care spiral for hours... tending to my body, aligning my energy, “doing the things”… and suddenly half the day is gone. The work I wanted to do is still waiting. The people I wanted to connect with feel far away. And somehow, I forgot to just enjoy my morning.
We live in a time where we have access to more healing tools and knowledge than ever before. Which is beautiful but also overwhelming. There’s this quiet pressure to be good at self-care, as if it were a skill we need to master in every direction.
But we don’t need to know everything. We don’t have to do it all.
If there’s one path that truly resonates with you, I gently encourage you to go deeper with that. Let yourself root into it. For me, that path is Reiki. Life brought me to it naturally, and it’s been a gentle companion ever since. Of course, I remain open to other practices too , but I’ve stopped feeling the need to understand and try everything.
Self-care can be quiet.
It can be messy.
It can be imperfect and incomplete.
And it can still be enough.
Let yourself read slowly.
Make space for joy without it being “nourishing.”
Skip the evening routine if you’re tired.
Say no without guilt.
Let presence be the priority, not performance.
You don’t have to be great at everything. Just honest with yourself.
That’s more than enough.
With love,
Barbara