hey, lemon cake.

so, prioritizing self-care doesn’t always look the way you think it will (or how everyone else tells you it should)

sometimes it looks like rest

and if you need that, by all means REST

i took a 2 hour nap yesterday because i really couldn’t not

today i’m hunkering down

one of the things i love to help you do is learn to trust yourself to know when you need the nap + when you’re using it as an escape…

learn to trust yourself to discern when you can afford to take that space to escape, and when you actually do need to muscle through for a bit

learn to trust yourself to make up the difference when you need to

sometimes self-care looks like adventure + fun — others more like structure, discipline + dependability

and sometimes tapping into our hustle is the most self-caring thing we can do for ourselves

because sometimes we need all our fierce + bold, all our dedicated perseverance + fight

sometimes we’ve got shit to DO, and we need to turn up the heat to get it done

sometimes we need to HUSTLE

folks are often surprised to hear me say that, forgetting about the “drive” in intuition-driven living + decisionmaking

but big vision + heart requires stamina + action

hustle is neither the enemy nor the savior that opposing sides have decided

hustle has never been the problem…

hurry has

when you get locked into the chaos + frenzy of hurry, your nervous system mirrors + perpetuates that unhealthy frenetic energy

your belief system starts to feed you all the stories about how you can’t possibly afford to slow down, and it serves up examples masquerading as evidence

your worry kicks into overdrive, you become further + further removed from the truth of here + now

a hurried + harried you can never keep pace with the demands of the day or the dreams you hold dear

hurry keeps you subservient to other peoples’ visions

hustle keeps you closer to your own

and there’s nothing more tender + loving to yourself than that

so here’s to you, bloom

whether you’ve determined that you need to slow it down or amp it up today —

may you listen to your own damn self + do it without apology

xxoo, cc

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