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Ready for a reset? 🍁
Hope September is treating you well so far, Reader, I'm all moved in and settled at my mom's house temporarily (a story for another day), feeling a little tired but much better than the last time I wrote to you. 😊 So let's circle back to resetting those healthy habits and routines shall we? September, and Virgo season, brings that back-to-school fresh start energy and the transition from the hot, humid temperatures of summer to the cool breeze of fall. 🍂 Your weather results may vary...
It is simply not happening today 🫠
Hey there Reader, I tried to start writing you an email about healthy habits, getting back on the horse, refocusing on your health after falling off the wagon, etc. And after about 10 minutes of staring at my screen, I realized that today is not the day for that newsletter. I've got about 30% in the tank today. Maybe. 🪫 I didn't get much sleep last night and I'm stressed about moving next weekend. There's a lot to do this week. Quite frankly, I feel like a mess. My whole body is like, "rest...
Your next season 🍂 🌾
Hey Reader, We're nearing the end of August already, and before you know it, the crisp air of fall will be upon us. 🍁 It might take a while for the actual weather to catch up, but September always feels like a fresh start to me. It probably comes from an old pattern of starting a new school year each fall, but there's something about the air getting cooler and the trees turning red and gold that feels magical. ✨ I think there's a new beginning to be had at the start of each season, even if...
Not the move I was expecting, but...
Hey there, Reader, If you watched my last YouTube video, you know I'm planning to move at the end of this month. I'm excited to say I finally know where I'm going -- but it's not the move I expected to make. After weeks of searching for the next right place and coming up empty-handed, I've decided to move back to my mom's house for a while. 🏡 To save money, bide my time, and wait for the right place to find me. And maybe travel a bit? Honestly, the sky's the limit when you don't have a whole...
Treating "freelancer" as a dirty word 🙄
Hey Reader, I don't know if you've encountered this in the business space, but some people treat being a "freelancer" as something inherently bad. You shouldn't call yourself a "freelancer," you have to call yourself a "business owner" or an "entrepreneur." Or so they say. "Freelancer" connotes being an order taker, a contractor, someone who just does a job and doesn't own their autonomy as a business owner, apparently. Obviously, I have a problem with this. 🙄 First of all ☝️ there are good...
Is it lack of motivation or... ?
Hey Reader, I feel like I've been slumped against the wall of low motivation lately. Can you relate? It looks and feels like this 👇 Same, Rachel, same I have big plans, for my business, for my life -- and I simply can't be bothered with any of them. 🫠 On the one hand, as I talked about in my last email, Mercury Rx strikes again. It's showing no signs of letting up anytime soon. On the other hand, I know now from months of therapy and years of self-help education that low motivation is usually...
Tapping my way thru Mercury retrograde 🪐
Hey there, Reader, For a couple of weeks, I've been in what you might call a summer slump. 🫠 I'm definitely not doing my best work, and while I take my rest very seriously, I can also tell the difference between when I truly need rest, and when I actually need an energy boost. ⚡ This slump coincides with the current Mercury retrograde (July 17-August 11), which is certainly no coincidence. (I'm very affected by astrological shifts.) So what am I doing to keep myself going through this slump?...
Developing your health consciousness
Hey Reader, For a long time, I walked around completely oblivious to my health. Now I can see that most of that time I spent in a fog, deeply disconnected from my body and its signals. Over the last five years I've been able to develop a much closer relationship with my body and how I feel, such that I'm able to notice patterns. For example, I've been feeling off for the last week. One day of low motivation and brain fog? I can chalk it up to being an off day. But after three days of that...
Sigh... I'm an idiot
Why did I do this, Reader? On Saturday, which was a hot and sunny one here, I decided to lay out on my rooftop and catch some rays. ☀️ Somehow every year I manage to convince myself that I can handle way more sun than I actually can, and I got pretty sunburned. 🦞 Honestly I feel like such an idiot. Turns out a bad sunburn can even give you systemic side effects like nausea and fatigue. Yep, I got those too. And my gut is a mess. 🫣 Ironically, my skin isn't even peeling, but every body is...
Nothing like the Hunger Games to put things in perspective
Happy Monday (and almost July!) Reader, So I finally got my hands on Sunrise on the Reaping, the newest Hunger Games book, which tells the story of Haymitch's games and his first attempt at sabotage against the capital (no spoilers here, don't worry). Needless to say, it's always a kick in the teeth to return to the dystopia of Panem and some of the unnerving, although exaggerated, similarities to our world. (For example, Reaping Day in the Hunger Games world is on July 4th, which is the kind...
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