Daily Affirmations + Introspections

Here’s your Friday peptalk:

You are the only one who can implement changes into your life. You are the only person who is in control of how you think how you feel and how you act.

Stand up and take your power back by walking in the direction of your highest self. No excuses, do an action today that supports the life that you’re trying to build.

Happy Friday. Love you.

A medicine wheel is used as a symbolic teaching and healing tool by various Indigenous cultures in North America to promote spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional balance and growth. 

It represents the cycle of life and the interconnectedness of all things through its four quadrants, which correspond to the four cardinal directions (East, South, West, North), the four seasons, and different stages of life and self. The medicine wheel serves as a framework for understanding personal journeys, life's complexities, and the natural world, emphasizing the need for balance and harmony in all aspects of life. 

How we will honor this structure daily: 

Body Anchor (East – Earth): Grounding movement (simple stretch, barefoot walking, hand on heart/belly)

Daily Belly Breathwork (South – Fire): 2–5 minutes coherent breath, generating inner fire through breath

We all get mental rainy days.

And when these mental gray days pop up for me, there are a series of things that I try to do to allow myself space to feel like shit and also space to offer myself love, compassion, and healing.

Gray day protocol:

• don’t run. I think the most important thing when you’re not feeling mentally great is to not use a form of escapism. Don’t reach for alcohol, don’t grab the video game controller, don’t text your ex, don’t do drugs. Running away from ourselves only further that feeling of disconnection and loneliness. 

• Be sad/mad/hurt. Validate your feelings and experience. Write it down or talk about it out loud to yourself and simply bring validation to your own personal perspective and experience. Don’t try to talk yourself out of how you feel, allow yourself to feel that feeling in its entirety. this is where…