Practicing yoga the very first thing in the morning is perhaps one of the best ways to really reap its many health benefits. This is due to several factors. First, establishing a routine of yoga in the morning helps your body to regulate its sleeping habits. In time, your body will become used to waking up and immediately receiving a boost of energy from yoga, which will make the act of getting out of bed that much easier since your body will have a task to look forward to. - TheJoint.com  If you haven't tried yoga before, or done it consistently, and you wonder what it would be like to do yoga poses as part of your morning routine, take these next seven days to give it a try. For these next seven days, we'll focus on one pose and on an aromatherapy blend that may help with that pose & the energy it represents. But if you have any movement challenges or health concerns, it's always a good idea to exercise caution and diligence before trying a new form of exercise. Might be good to check with your doctor or healthcare provider. Just saying. And once you know you're good to go, let's try the challenge...  Day One: The Seated Meditation Pose "...the base of our spine is pressed firmly into the mat. With this, we physically root ourselves into the earth and find a sense of grounding. From here, we can do the mental and emotional work to determine what is stopping us from that sense of grounding in our lives. -YogaJournal The Seated Meditation pose can help lessen stress & anxiety, calming your mind. It's a root chakra pose that can help you feel more centered and grounded.
Meditation Moment - imagine that all of your stress and any anxiety is leaving your body and going deep into the earth, sending back and creating a deep sense of rootedness. Allow peace to fill each cell of your body. See you tomorrow! Love, Jeanine ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Go to morning yoga to get all of the poses, meditation moments, affirmations & journal questions for the challenge. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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Is it sometimes difficult to be as present to and with your children as you would like in the morning? Is your attention scattered or sometimes distracted by all the things calling your name in those moments? Let's look at how aromatherapy can help you be more present and grounded during the mom moments in your mornings...  More Present for Mom Moments For grounded moments at home with your children and family, I suggest clary sage essential oil... Clary sage carries spiritual timelessness within itself — a second could be a year, a year could be a second — and brings the realization that it’s how much love we can pour into a second that counts. Clary sage Encourages calm, confidence, grounding, regeneration, tranquility, revitalization, balance, and restoration. - Aromatherapy for the Soul If you're going to be at home, and would like a delightful fragrance to blend it with, add lemon or lime to the diffuser. But since they are both citrus oils, and can cause photosensitivity, avoid them when you know you'll be leaving the house. How do you stay grounded and present in moments with your family? Have you ever tried clary sage? Have a good weekend! Love, Jeanine ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ For more help with mornings, take the morning routine quiz. It will help you identify what challenges you most about your morning routine, and recommend where to start as you begin to take back your mornings. You also will find out how to access my cozy aromatherapy guide, free of charge. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ You've just started to meditate or pray. And suddenly, in the distance, you hear the sound of the TV playing a cartoon. Or, you hear your spouse laughing with the kids. Or, that knock on the door. I know you don't have much time in the morning, and you don't want to waste it wishing for silence or an ability to tune out when noise happens. Let's talk about how to get centered enough to have a deeper quiet time or meditation experience...  Centered and Grounded Sandalwood essential oil is ideal for helping you get into a meditative state, and can help whether you are meditating or having a quiet time. It blends well with ylang ylang essential oil, which also is deeply relaxing. Go easy with the latter one. Just a drop on a cotton ball will be more than enough. You may want to keep sandalwood's scent subtle as well, so just a couple of drops in your diffuser should be plenty. Have you tried using sandalwood, before? Let me know in a comment. See you tomorrow! Love, Jeanine ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ For more help with mornings, take the morning routine quiz. It will help you identify what challenges you most about your morning routine, and recommend where to start as you begin to take back your mornings. Plus, when you watch the video, you'll find out how to try some warmer and cozier essential oil blend recipes for mornings. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If you're not a morning person, you may find that when stress hits in the morning, it's harder to seal with than at any other time in your day. If that's so, create a self-care plan to soothe stress away in those moments, and let aromatherapy help...  Calming Down After Stress There are several essential oils you might use to return to peace after a stressful morning, or even after one moment of god-awful stress. (1) For its soothing, feels-like-a-hug properties, I'd choose lavender essential oil. (2) In a situation where the moment has passed, but a problem remains, and you want to let go of worry or cheer up for a moment, I'd choose orange essential oil. And they both play nicely with each other. Remember, though, that because orange is a citrus oil, you have to avoid photosensitivity. Choose lavender, instead, on any day you will be leaving the house. Have you ever used lavender or orange after a stressful moment? See you next time! Love, Jeanine ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ For more help with mornings, take the morning routine quiz. It will help you identify what challenges you most about your morning routine, and recommend where to start as you begin to take back your mornings. You also will find out how to access my cozy aromatherapy guide, free of charge. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Are you a stay at home mom who is frequently tired in the mornings, and often interrupted just when you find a minute to get something done? Maybe even the thought of getting things done is too much sometimes, so how can you find both the motivation and the focus to stay on task until the to-do list is done? Having a morning routine that creates space for the things you need to do can help, but then you actually have to do them, and that can be where the trouble is. Morning aromatherapy can help...  Morning Aromatherapy to the Rescue If I had to recommend one oil that you could use to get things done, and stay on task, it would be lemon essential oil. Lemon is an gives you an uplifting and centering fragrance and an essential oil that can help to clarify your focus and deepen concentration. I recommend inhalation - in a diffuser, or on a tissue or cotton ball - as the best way to use it. Because it can be irritating to the skin, it's not safe to use it topically, unless you dilute it. And speaking of dilution, never use an essential oil neat. Some will be more irritating than others, but any essential oil can hurt you if used topically without diluting it first. As a citrus oil, lemon also can create photosensitivity, so if you are heading out soon into the sunshine, you may want to wait to use it until you are back inside for the day. By the way, it blends well with rosemary, another essential oil that is often used for staying focused and on task. See you tomorrow! Love, Jeanine ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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Some of you reading this post are old blog challenge friends, but for those of you who are new, welcome! I'm Jeanine.
I'm an author & lifestyle and faith blogger, writing here at Meet Jeanine about slow living, slow faith & slow morning routines. Every few months, when possible, I join other bloggers for the Ultimate Blog Challenge. |
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The Ultimate Blog Challenge
The Ultimate Blog Challenge, led fearlessly by Paul Taubman, happens several times a year, in January, April, July and October. The challenge is to write a blog post every day of the month and post it in the Facebook group so the other bloggers can love on it.
I love getting to meet new bloggers and see old friends each time. I've been participating off and on for about 10 years now.
Join us! It really helps with traffic, which is one of the things I love most about it, in addition to the experience, itself.
Morning Aromatherapy
This month's blog posts, here at Meet Jeanine, will be brought to you by the letters M and A, for Morning Aromatherapy. What is morning aromatherapy? I'm glad you asked.
Morning aromatherapy is the use of essential oils to transform your experience of mornings.
And I like the idea of making mornings cozy, so here, I'll be talking about cozy morning aromatherapy, which does the main job of making mornings easier, but also has a side hustle - it adds coziness and comfort to the mix.
I invite you back this month to learn more about it, especially if you struggle with mornings.
By the way, in the middle of the month, we'll be doing a 7-day morning yoga challenge, for beginners (like me) who aren't sure they could add a sequence to their morning routine, but are willing to try one pose a day. And each day, there will be a recommended essential oil blend to deepen & support your experience.
See you tomorrow!
Love, Jeanine
Do you long to pursue a slower lifestyle, but worry that you don't have enough time to make it work? I suspect this is a common reason slow living remains in the wish stage.
Slow down? I don't get enough done as it is!
Slow living asks you to make more time for what matters most. But what if it feels like there's no way you can do that right now?
It's always my suggestion that you start small and make gradual changes. It creating a slower lifestyle is going to be possible, this is likely to be the easiest way to find out and then, to do so.
And speaking of wishes long deferred, let's look at morning routines. Maybe your dream morning routine would require a lot more time than you have to spare, as a busy stay at home mom.
But what if you only had to find ten minutes? Here are 5 ideas for a ten-minute morning routine for moms, and one way to create a morning routine that combines them...
5 Ideas for Creating a 10-Minute
Morning Meditation Routine
As an added bonus to immersing myself in the moment, meditating for 10 minutes a day helped me develop a writing habit, a reading habit, a journaling habit, and a happier and healthier life. Simply put, meditation changed my life — and it could change yours too.
– Blake Powell in The Mission, Medium.com
I know. I have heard it, too. That if you really want to benefit from creating a meditation practice, you’ll need more time.
But as stay at home moms, we may not have more time. Should we give up and call it a day? I don’t think so.
You deserve to take time each day to get grounded and centered. Even if you only have ten minutes.
Here's how...
(1) The easiest way might be to simply sit quietly for ten minutes, focusing on breathing deeply and slowly.
(2) You also could meditate on chosen words or phrases, or affirmations, like “breathing in peace,” or “I am centered and grounded,” or “God is with me.”
(3) Your ten-minute meditation could be a walking meditation, spent quietly observing nature.
(4) You could use a guided meditation that is only ten minutes long.
(5) You might spend your ten-minute meditation imagining a peaceful scene, and picturing yourself there. If the weather outside is frightful, staying in and imagining it, instead, might be better.
There are endless variations on these ideas and other ones you can try. The main thing to know is that you don’t have to give up on meditating just because you don’t have much time.
Taking time out to pause during a busy morning will always be a good idea even if that amount of time is short.
And on the weekend, you can give yourself more time to meditate.
On a slow lifestyle Saturday, you could meditate on an intention you have set for your life, and give yourself time to imagine it manifesting, taking in every detail you can think of and really placing yourself there, right in the middle of it.
On your Self Care Sunday, you could meditate on a scene from the past week, taking the time to imagine and practice endless variations of how it could have gone differently.
What if I had said that, instead? Or, what if I had felt more confident, peaceful, or empowered?
Telling yourself a better version of the story and practicing it in meditation may help you create different outcomes in situations that come up in the future.
Or, you can take time during your Sunday morning meditation to dream up everything you want to experience during the following week. Let yourself see and feel it, as you imagine your intentions for the week coming true.
What do you hope will be your best moments in the week to come?
How might you sail through any challenges that come your way?
Giving yourself more time to meditate each weekend gives you the benefit of longer meditation times on days when you’re more likely to find the time to do it. And to enjoy it.
7 Ideas for Creating a 10-Minute Morning Quiet Time Retreat
First, find a place for some quiet and then make yourself go there. It could be a place outdoors, a secluded room in your house, or even a quiet walk in the neighbourhood. The best part about the ten minutes is that it can be anything. During my brief time on the bench I did an examen. You could sit in silence, do centering prayer, ask God a question, or just vent to God.
– Ten Minute Retreat, GodinAllThings.com
Is it ever difficult for you to find time in your morning for a quiet time with God? And when you do take the time, is it hard not to hear that voice in your head that reminds you of what else needs to be done?
As a stay at home mom, I know this struggle all too well. I’ve often decided that there wasn’t time, that I was way too tired to pay attention long enough, or whatever excuse occurred to my tired, beleagured mind in those moments.
But an alternative, on days when it feels like there just isn’t enough time, is to have a shorter quiet time. Here are several things you can do when you only have five or ten minutes…
(1) Read your devotional
(2) Read a chapter in your Bible
(3) Pray a psalm to God
(4) Sing a worship song or hymn
(5) Pray about anything coming up that day that concerns you
(6) Do a brief meditation during which you plug into God’s presence and connect with his love for you
(7) In your journal, write a brief note about any insights that came to you during the activity you chose, whether that was singing, reading the Bible, praying or something else.
Creating a 10-minute quiet time whenever you need one will take away the pressure to spend more time than you have, and free you from worrying about getting it done. But because you love God, you’re likely to long to keep spending time with him.
If you really can’t, though, there are three possible solutions I want to suggest.
One is to set a gentle timer that will go off as you get close to the ten-minute limit.
Another is to have a second and longer quiet time, whenever possible, during a slower evening routine, after the kids are in bed.
The third is to plan for and spend more time with God during your weekends. Here are several ideas for how to do that.
For your slow lifestyle Saturday, give yourself more time with God.
Dig into a Bible passage that is likely to offer wisdom or insight about the week that just ended, or guidance and encouragement for the week ahead.
On Self Care & Sabbath Sunday, give yourself a longer quiet time with God and dedicate the day to resting in him. Ask him for guidance about how to spend your time, and then, listen for what he knows will be most nurturing to you that day.
If you have gone to church that day, journal about anything from that day’s sermon that you’re still thinking about, or want to talk over with God.
Also, write about any challenges you experienced during the week, looking for times when you tried to carry those burdens or solve those problems yourself, instead of trusting God with them.
Hand them over retroactively, and listen for any insights or words of healing about the week you are leaving behind. Write it all down in your journal.
Praise him for all the ways he was there for you during the week and ask for his guidance during the week to come.
9 Ideas for a 10-Minute Morning
Journal Routine
Meditation, visualization, prayer, and journaling are all powerful activities that go very well together. But the journaling portion is where you solidify, clarify, affirm, and strategize your insights, goals, and plans. This morning journaling session only needs to be 5-15 minutes. – Benjamin Hardy,
Ph.D, in Better Humans, Medium.com
Is starting a journal one of the things you have wanted to add to your morning routine?
If one of the reasons you haven’t yet done it is that you don’t feel like you have enough time to dedicate to it each morning, the 10-minute idea may be a solution. On mornings when there just wasn’t enough time – even if that was every morning – you wouldn’t reject journaling altogether, you’d just spend a great deal less time writing.
And then, you’d have weekends, if you needed them, to make up for lost time.
Here are several ways to try a 10-minute morning journal routine…
(1) Create a self-care bullet journal and use it in several different ways…
-To write yourself brief love notes or affirmations when time is short.
-To set intentions for the day.
-To prioritize the intentions you’ve already set
-To jot down reminders you want to make sure you don’t forget during your busy morning.
(2) Use your other journal, but set a timer that gentle lets you know your time is almost up.
-Do stream of consciousness writing about whatever comes to mind.
-Choose a topic for exploration and write down any thoughts that come up during that time.
-Think about what is coming up for you that day and write possible solutions for any challenges you know you’ll face.
-Write down any insights you gained during brief moments of meditation or prayer.
-Write a brief story about how you would like for the day to go, and what would be the best outcomes you can imagine for all that you have planned.
Several of these will tempt you to spend more time than you have, especially at first, but you’ll be surprised at how easily you get used to journaling in short, brief bursts. And you can promise yourself you will get back to it when you have more time on the weekends.
During slow lifestyle Saturdays, you can give yourself more time to write. Journal about your dreams for your life. How can you nurture & support them in the days to come?
Think about any ongoing problems that don’t yet have a solution. Writing about them may help you think of one.
Use your Self Care Sunday to journal about the week you are leaving behind, and give yourself plenty of time to think things through and then, let them go. Brainstorm ways to handle any tricky situations that may be coming up in the week ahead, and set your intentions for the coming week.
The Ten-Minute Tea Time
With a cup of tea, we are invited to relax into all of ourselves, not letting the busy mind run the show. Allow any questions, reflections, or contemplations, but set aside to-dos for later. Keep breathing deeply, savoring your tea and any chosen mindful activity, landing ever more in the refuge of the present moment. – Katy Taylor, PlumDeluxe.com
My morning cup of tea is one of my favorite parts of my morning routine! But sometimes, commitments I have made for my morning keep me from having the full tea experience I want, with my great big cup of tea.
On those mornings, I make a much smaller cup; one that I can drink fairly quickly, instead of lingering over it to savor it as I usually do.
And sometimes, it’s the next day before I can get back to my regular big cup routine.
Do you love tea, too?
If you do, then, instead of skipping your cup of tea on your busiest mornings, just make a smaller cup. That way, you still get to have it, even though it isn’t the normal amount you are used to drinking.
On your slow living Saturday and Self Care Sunday, you could make a pot of tea and give yourself time to savor each cup, while reading or writing in your journal.
Or sip while watching the trees blow gently from your perch on the front porch.
The 10-Minute Morning Yoga Routine
My biggest complaint, that I was just too busy to do yoga regularly, went right out the window when all I had to commit to was 10 minutes. Even on days when I didn't have time to settle down until 10:00 or 11:00 at night, I could still stretch before bed. This is a good lesson that goes beyond yoga—making time for something that's important isn't actually impossible.
- Kasandra Brabaw, Prevention.com
Here are several links you can click to learn more about creating a 10-minute morning yoga routine...
(1)From Subtle Yogi
(2) Early Morning Yoga from JP Thomas
And here are ideas for yoga on the weekends...
During a slow living Saturday morning, you might go to a live yoga class and meet up with friends who could take the class with you and then, go get coffee afterward. Or, you might do a kids yoga routine with your children.
Or on Self Care Sunday, you might find a longer routine online you’d like to try, and you can give yourself more time that day to do the yoga sequence or poses.
What if you could combine some or most of these morning routine ideas into one ten-minute self-care routine for those days when you want as much goodness in your morning as possible?
7 Ideas for a 10-Minute Self Care
Morning Routine
“Slowing down and starting a self-care practice is one of the best ways to shift the energy of your entire day. Before you dive into all your obligations, deadlines and must-do’s for the day, allow yourself ten minutes to not have a single care in the world...” – EpicMatcha.com
(1) Light a tealight candle
(2) Put the pot on to make a cup of tea
(3) Do a brief meditation or some deep breathing while the pot is heating up.
(4) Say your affirmations while the tea is steeping.
(5) While sipping your tea, visualize the day you want to have & briefly, describe it as an intention in your journal.
(6) As you begin to conclude this self-care ritual, make a wish for your day.
(7) Then, blow out your candle
Repeat this self-care ritual on the weekends, but give yourself more time for each step, and include as many of the other ideas for a slow morning weekend routine as you would like.
Did you get some great ideas for a ten-minute morning routine you would like to try? Let me know in a comment.
See you next time!
Love, Jeanine
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Slow parenting is basically about learning how to stop the rush and prioritize quality over quantity when it comes to family time. In other words, it’s about making an effort to slow down versus always hurrying kids along from one activity to the next. - Rachel Bowie, PureWow.com
Slow parenting cherishes quality over quantity, being in the moment, and making meaningful connections with your family.
- Jaci Conry, Boston Globe
As moms, we all talk about how quickly life moves when our children are young. We don't want to miss a moment, because we know we won't get it back.
But sometimes, it's what some have called the glorification of busy that makes us miss quality time with our kids. In a rush to get things done, and give our children all the things, we over schedule both ourselves and them. And miss the moments we say we want to cherish.
The solution is slow parenting. It's about shifting our focus from what still needs to be done to how we can spend more quality time with our families and create meaningful moments with our children in the time we have.
As a concept, slow parenting has been a silent companion in our discussions of creating a slower lifestyle, being more present to and with your family, and creating morning and routines that give you time for what matters most. But I wanted to create this short and sweet post just to give it its own focus.
We'll return to it, in the days and weeks and months to come. But in a nutshell, slow parenting is the best motivation for slowing life down as a mom.
Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms. They keep the family schedule under control so that everyone has enough downtime to rest, reflect and just hang out together. Slow parenting means allowing our children to work out who they are rather than what we want them to be. -Carl Honore, NYTimes interview
Slow parenting is organic, it’s ever-evolving — the only essential is that families carve out time to connect. - Jaci Conry, Boston Globe
See you next time!
Love, Jeanine
Love, Jeanine
What Every Cozy Book Nook Needs
Welcoming comfort. Your cozy reading room or nook needs to become a haven of comfort so that you find yourself wanting to stay a while.
As sat at home moms, we so rarely large pockets of time to ourselves. So the scene needs to be set already, waiting for you to step right in, pick up where you left off and get right back to reading time.
Slowing life down, or creating a slower lifestyle in the larger sense, happens in moments. And you can empower them by making your home a place that invites you and your family to stop and rest. To pause for a moment.
Silent support for the slow living lifestyle you want to create.
Each member of your family deserves that feeling of welcome, and a cozy space - in addition to the bedroom - that feels like a haven made just for him or her. The cozy reading room can be one of those spaces, and can be furnished in such a way that it serves the whole family, if all of you love to read.
Be sure to personalize it in ways that reflect each family member.
But start with the basics to create a foundation of coziness everyone can enjoy. These basics are an essential way to get started and then, anything else you add will be icing on the cake.
Here are the 9 essentials...
(1) The ultimate in comfy seating: a chair and a half or a sink-deep comfy sofa.
(2) Great lighting: a floor lamp right next to the reading spot, and additional lighting in an overhead lamp, or table lamp somewhere else in the room.
(3) Big windows and a lovely view: for letting in light, but also maintaining a connection to nature during those moments when you lift your gaze from whatever you're reading. No view? Add art.
(4) A bookcase with plenty of room for your collection of reading material. But I suggest creating some spaces on the bookcase so that it's not just a wall of books, so your room feels more spacious.
(5) And end table next to your chair or sofa, with enough room for your latest stack of books to rest right next to you.
(6) Space for a cuppa, on your end table, for reading with your favorite beverage within easy reach.
(7) A comfy throw to snuggle under for warmth, nearby whenever you need it.
(8) A fluffy, fat, comfy pillow to lean against while you're reading.
(9) Your favorite candle to add warmth, scent and just the right mood.
The Cozy Reading Room Checklist
See you next time!
Love, Jeanine
As a stay at home mom, finding time for yourself can be a challenge. In fact, whole days can easily go by in a blink, unplanned, if we let them.
 | Slow living, as a philosophy, encourages you to live according to your values and set intentions for the way you will choose to spend your time. To reject busyness as a virtue and to slow life down to spend more time with those you love, doing what you love. But what does that look like, practically speaking? Here are 20 slow living routine ideas for stay at home moms & slow lifestyle families. |
Choose a few that appeal to you, that you and your family can try. Use them to create more time for yourself, and more time to spend with those who matter most to you.
10-Minute Ideas for a Slow Morning Routine
(1) Linger over a cup of your favorite tea each morning.
(2) Add ten minutes of meditation to your morning routine.
(3) Do a yoga or stretching sequence each morning.
(4) Take ten minutes each morning to write in your self-care journal.
5 Slow Living Routine Ideas for Evenings
(5) Spend time connecting with your kids after school, instead of chauffering them each day to one activity after another.
(6) Let go of one commitment that doesn't serve you & replace it with a daily or weekly activity that matches your values, like spending time with friends or family.
(7) At least once a week, eat dinner as a family without any electronic guests.
(8) Create time to read each night as part of your wind-down routine.
(9) Make a cup of lavender or chamomile tea each night to help yourself relax and unwind.
(10) Before getting up in the morning, identify your top 3 priorities.
(11) Take five minutes between one activity and the next each day to breathe deeply and slowly.
(12) Create a wind-down time each evening that helps you let go of daily stress & become sleepy enough for bedtime.
9 Weekend Ideas for a Slow Living Routine
(13) Bake cookies with your kids each Saturday afternoon for a slow living Saturday.
(14) Eat a slow cooker meal once a weekend with your family.
(15) Take the kids to see their grandparents each Friday night & have a weekly date night with your spouse.
(16) Each week, get together with your friends for a weekly game night.
(17) Have a weekly weekend movie night with your family.
(18) During your Self Care Sundays, set intentions for the following week.
(19) Create a brief letting go ritual & do that at the end of each day and at the end of each week.
(20) Create a capsule wardrobe, so each Sunday, it will be easy to plan next week's outfits.
(21) Bonus idea: set intentions for the week each Sunday and write them in your journal.
Which ones appeal to you most? Tell me in a comment below.
See you next time!
Love, Jeanine
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Get more ideas about how to create a slower
lifestyle for yourself & your family by
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Jeanine Byers
Lifestyle blogger & hygge hermit who will help you conquer mornings & create a slower, more family-present lifestyle in a single bound.
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