Do you find your self-care where you want it to be? 

Are your current practices helping to support the most productive version of yourself? 

When you get busy doing, it can be easy to lose track of the importance of self-care and loving practices to honor your body. 

In order to accomplish your highest priorities with connection, ease and efficiency–self-care is a critical necessity. 

It’s really challenging to feel good about yourself and to be productive when you’re not taking care of yourself. 

You’ll lack consistency and sustainability and eventually it affects your confidence and self-worth. I know what burn out looks like and it doesn’t feel good and the time it takes to recover is so much greater and all-consuming than remembering and committing to small steps consistently.

So for me, an example of self-care is going to the hot springs. I always feel recharged in and around water. It’s really healing, nourishing and nurturing for me. So when I choose to go to the hot springs, I go with an intention. 

I like to link my self-care to my highest priorities because for me because that feels most inspiring. 

I go for ease. Whether it’s to nurture my body, get a specific piece of writing done, I have a client call coming up. I’m open to something new and yet not quite sure what that is yet, I’m wanting to up-level and commit to something new or I’m just feeling off, disconnected or down…

I always find that after I completely let go for an hour or two and I give myself that time to fully BE, clarity and ease follow. 

I don’t think about my intention while I’m actually there. I allow moments of insights or clarity to come through and I capture them, but I don’t “work” while I’m there. 

Usually my last soak in the tub or as I’m showering, the idea, clarity or presence comes to me. And even without technically working or trying…every time I leave I get what I went there for. 

Sometimes I’ll sit in my car and get a blog done in ten minutes in the car before I even make it home. Whereas I may have spent 2 hours at home stressed out about it, trying to write it. I’m grateful I realized years ago, that that was never the way I wanted to write something or how I wanted to show up. 

When you hold a standard for how you want to show up for yourself, your projects and your life…it becomes easier to take care of yourself.

I invite you to ask yourself, 

✨ What activities, what thoughts, what things can you do to nurture yourself? 

✨ Where is your health? On a scale of one to ten right now? 

✨ Where would you like it to be if different from where you are?  

✨ What do you need to do to fill in the gaps?

✨ If your health has taken a back seat? Why is now the time that you know it’s important for you? Why are you committed now? 

It’s easier to want instant gratification, lose yourself and have your emotions run you instead of your highest priorities inspire you when you lack intention and self-care. 

Here’s to you closing out this year as the most healthy, productive and inspired version of yourself. 

Xx,
Laurin