​As someone who is deeply passionate about health in a holistic sense, I want to talk about what it truly means to nurture and heal yourself.  Your body, mind and soul. Not just eating well, getting good sleep, or staying active...because while these things do matter, you can do all of that and still feel exhausted.

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Can you resonate?

For many years, I found myself eating clean, moving my body five days a week, and sleeping eight hours a night.  I had a pretty good work life balance, rarely working more than 40 hours a week.  Yet, I wondered why I still woke up tired, felt this baseline level of low energy all the time, and had energy crashes every afternoon.  I wondered if I was low on iron or whether I had a thyroid dysfunction, so I got some blood work done and everything came back normal.  I started to see that even though my calendar looked balanced, subtle patterns and environments were gradually wearing me down and leaving me low on energy.

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I have learned...Holistic health is shaped by the hidden rhythms and subtle details of our environment—the tiny daily stressors we often overlook.  Creating a safe environment allows your feminine energy to thrive! 
 

Here are seven rhythms I have embraced to create a softer, gentler, more nurturing environment for myself.

 

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1. Create Tidy, Ordered and Cozy Spaces 📦

Visual clutter is so overstimulating.  It is the chaos.  The stuff.  It is exhausting to be around.  One simple shift that has helped me is tidying up my room each evening—creating a reset for all my senses.  We often underestimate how much clutter affects our nervous system. I have noticed that visual clutter created this low-grade stress internally.  It was my cluttered desk, overstuffed closet, and laundry piling up.  Especially during the winter, I find decluttering and tidying my home so in alignment with the season.

 

2. Embrace Silence 💥

Noise is everywhere — its the music, podcasts, youtube, radio.  We often tend to multi-task, pairing a household chore while listening to "noise."  We rarely single-task anymore.  For me, silencing the radio during drives or doing household tasks without background noise has helped me feel more grounded and focused.  I genuinely start to enjoy these "mundane" tasks of laundry, cooking, and cleaning.

 

3. Invite Healthy, Life-Giving Connections  𖨆𖨆

Some people energize us—and others deplete us. There were relationships in my life that left me constantly walking on eggshells, or emotionally drained after every interaction.  While it is not always possible to avoid these people altogether, I have set emotional and physical boundaries to protect my peace.

 

4. Embrace Mindful Digital Use 🌐

Our devices constantly demand our attention. Every notification triggers a micro cortisol spike. One of the best rhythms I have adopted is keeping my phone on Do Not Disturb most of the day. I check it when I choose—not when a notification tells me to.  I have also turned my phone into a "dumb phone"— as it only contains the necessary apps I need to use, while eliminating social media apps.   Removing social media from my phone helped me break the habit of being constantly connected.  I did not realize how this constant connection left me feeling drained and actually more lonely.  I also noticed that it was sometimes difficult to sit in solitude, as I transitioned into this slower living lifestyle.  It is far easier to fill my days with distractions, a packed schedule, or the constant noise of the internet to escape reality.  Embracing more mindful digital use has enabled me to be more comfortable sitting with my true reality and I embrace solitude with much greater ease and comfort than before. 

 

A few shifts I have made [instead of spending time on my phone] include reading the bible, reading books, journaling, writing, and meeting up with friends in-person.

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Every year, I like to go camping at Mammoth Lakes.  With no Wi-Fi in the mountains, I realized how going without my phone for 3–4 days dramatically improved my sleep and energy.  I naturally started feeling sleepy around 8 PM, and my body woke me up at 5 AM without an alarm — yet I felt completely rested.  My energy each morning was fuller and more vibrant in a way that is hard to put into words.  If you have done this before, you probably know what I mean!

 

5. Enjoy Natural Sunlight and Nature 🔆

Sunlight and nature are deeply regulating for my body.  I open my windows every morning, eat breakfast by natural light, and spend time outdoors daily (at least 1-2 hours). Switching from a clinic to a mobile physical therapy practice naturally increased my sunlight exposure—and my energy noticeably improved. I also spend every weekend outdoors in nature, typically hiking!

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One of my favorite switches is spending time on Sunday afternoons in my backyard patio with a cup of tea, my favorite book, and my journal.  I also try and enjoy my lunch at a park on a picnic bench during the weekdays.  The sun on my back feels so warm and cozy.

 

6. Reduce Overstimulation 🧠

Many of us are constantly overstimulated by bright screens, multitasking, endless content and information overload, and mental clutter.  With all the advances in technology, we’re constantly flooded with input—from social media, Google or Apple News, YouTube, and countless other sources—and it can be exhausting.  What truly energizes me, though, is the output I create: using my own creativity, mind, hands, and ideas to make something.  For me, I have found this particularly with blogging, journaling, hand-writing cards for my friends, connecting with people in conversation, and cooking.

 

7. Heal Relationship With Time ⏰

A packed schedule, rushing from one thing to another, and never having downtime drained my body. Even good things felt exhausting when my calendar left no room to breathe.  I took the time to evaluate what my days needed to look like so I could end them feeling calm, present, and energized—not depleted. Feeling tired was normal (realistically), but when it reached the point where the quality of my attention and presence was compromised, I knew I was doing too much.  Check out my blog post on how to heal your relationship with time — I dive deeper into this topic!

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↟↟𓂃 ོ ☼𓂃↟ 𖠰𓂃 ོ𓂃

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Implementing these small shifts and rhythms into my days made huge changes on how I felt overall.  I now wake up before my alarm without feeling exhausted.  The quality of my attention and focus during my work hours has increased.  I finish my days feeling "productively" tired, yet energized and uplifted by the interactions I have had.  I am more present and emotionally in-tune and available for my friends whenever I meet up with them.

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Let's connect it all...I want to link this to slow living.  When we are constantly connected and overstimulated, we naturally live a hurried and busier life.  We are on the "go."  But, when we calm our environments and embrace these nourishing rhythms, it really brings us back to the present.  Back to reality.  We appreciate the mundane.  We start savouring the simplicity of life again.  This is when our body starts to heal.  This is where we are in this state of rest.  And it feels so good and in alignment.

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💬 Which subtle rhythms or environments in my life drain my energy?

💬 Which rhythms can I embrace to cultivate a gentler, slower pace of life that nurtures my body?

 

 

Thank you so much for reading ❤️

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