STRANGE ADVICE FROM A GRANDMOTHER THAT WILL HEAL YOU FASTER THAN THERAPY:
HEAL YOUR BODY 🌿
1. Stop drinking. Even "just socially." Alcohol is a trauma response in a bottle. What you're numbing deserves to be felt, not dissolved.
2. Move your body every single day. Not to look better. Because your nervous system is storing every emotion you refuse to process. Move to release, not to perform.
3. Sleep in complete darkness. Buy blackout curtains. Your brain heals most between 10 PM and 2 AM. Most people miss the entire window scrolling.
4. Eat one hot meal a day you cooked yourself. Not for health trends. Because preparing your own food is the oldest act of self-love humans have forgotten.
5. Go outside within 10 minutes of waking. Let sunlight hit your eyes before a screen does. This one habit resets your cortisol, mood, and energy without a single supplement.
6. Touch grass. Literally. Walk barefoot on earth for 10 minutes. It's how humans regulated their nervous system before concrete covered everything.
HEAL YOUR MIND ðŸ§
7. Stop explaining yourself to people who have already decided who you are. Spend your energy on people still curious about you.
8. Write the letter you'll never send. To the person who hurt you. To the version of you who didn't know better. Writing it is the release. Sending it is optional.
9. Learn the difference between a feeling and a fact. "I feel worthless" is a feeling, not your identity. Name it and it loses its power.
10. Spend 30 minutes in complete silence every day. Not meditation. Not journaling. Just sitting. Your thoughts will surface. Let them. You can't heal what you keep interrupting.
11. Stop googling your symptoms. Medical anxiety is a spiral disguised as responsibility. Call a doctor or don't. But stop feeding the worst-case machine.
12. Read one page of something wise every morning. Not Instagram quotes. An actual book. Your brain takes the shape of what you pour into it consistently.
HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIPS 🖤
13. Have one honest conversation you've been avoiding. The unexpressed truth is why you feel stuck. Say the thing. Gently. Clearly. Without editing yourself into silence.
14. Stop waiting for apologies that are never coming. Waiting for them is giving them continued power over your present.
15. Spend less time with people who consistently make you feel small after you leave. This isn't being difficult. This is protecting your emotional immune system.
16. Text someone you've been thinking about but haven't reached out to. That impulse exists for a reason. Act on it today.
17. Let yourself be helped. You've been so self-sufficient for so long that you've forgotten receiving is also an act of connection. Let people in. It makes you human, not weak.
18. Forgive someone. Not for them, but to free yourself from the weight of carrying the anger.
HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOURSELF 💫
19. Stop using the word "lazy" to describe yourself. Laziness is almost never the real issue. It's usually depletion, fear, or disconnection from meaning. Name what's actually happening.
20. Make one decision every day that your future self would be proud of. Just one. Small right decisions are how character is built.
21. Celebrate something small every single day. "I drank water today." "I went outside." Small wins compound into self-respect.
22. Stop abandoning yourself when things get hard. The version of you that quits during difficulty is a habit, not a personality. You can build a different response.
23. Write down three things you did right today before you sleep. Not gratitude. Acknowledgment. Your brain needs evidence that you're capable. Give it some.
24. Dress for the person you're becoming, not the one you're hiding from. Even if no one sees you today. Especially if no one sees you today.
25. Ask yourself once a week: "Am I becoming someone I respect?" If the answer is no, that's not failure. That's information.
26. Stop outsourcing your self-worth to other people's opinions.
27. Learn to apologize without making it about you.
28. Say I love you more. To people who deserve it. To yourself in the mirror even when it feels ridiculous.
29. Grieve what didn't work out. Give it a proper mourning. Then let it go.
30. Decide you deserve a good life. Not someday. Now.
I woke quite late (8.15am) and as usual, I rose late (10am) and took Harley straight out to play for about 30 minutes.
My trike was calling to me, so I made myself presentable and took to the streets. Bought myself a coffee and rode to the beach where I sat on a bench seat in the warm sun and watched the world go by …
As you can see, the tide was at its lowest.
When I’d had enough sitting and enough riding, I bought Adoring Husband some hot chips for lunch and as I headed home, I met an 81 year old lady by the name of Lucy. She was riding a red mobility cart and was taking one of her dogs for a walk. She was up for a chat so by the time I arrived home, the hot chips were not quite so hot!
AH was still appreciative.
For dinner tonight, I reheated some lamb and rice out of the freezer for AH. BGWLBH received beef sausages in onion gravy, with boiled potato and Asian salad.
I’ve been taking the USNEA that I purchased from the witches markets on Sunday. I can feel it easing my gut issues, but let me tell you, it tastes disgusting!!!
Ugh 😩
I can’t wait for this woman to start her herbal classes so that I can learn how to create her concoctions.
Now I’m going to fall asleep to the sound of tennis. Yay! Wimbledon has begun!
Nite all.
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