SELF - C. A.R.E. Sunday 🎀

Hey🌷🫖🍵🍳

If you’re at the point in your summer where it’s just a bit too hot and feels a bit monotonous… I feel you.

Here are some things that have kept me on track and optimistic even when it doesn’t feel as effortless:

SELF - C. 🐟 A. 🤸‍♀️ R. ⛅ E. ✍️

Cooking: 🌞🌿Summer Salmon Bowl 🐟🍋

This meal feels so fresh and light!

I love it because it places my all-time favorite ingredients as the star: ⭐ potatoes, zucchini, lemon, and dill ⭐

Ingredients:

• 1 wild-caught salmon fillet

• Potatoes (I love the pack with golden, red, and purple mini potatoes)

• 1 zucchini

• 1 lemon (juice and zest)

• A few sprigs of fresh dill or 1 tbsp dried dill

  For the sauce:

• ½ cup plain, grass-fed, whole milk greek yogurt

• 1 tbsp dijon mustard

• 3 tbsp chopped pickles

• 1 tbsp chopped dill

• 1 tbsp EVOO

• S + P

🤸‍♀️ Art:

With the Olympics coming up, I am riding high on my obsession with Simone Biles. So last week when I was having a day where everything was going wrong, I chose to sit out for a few hours and watch Simone Biles’ new documentary on Netflix. 

As a former gymnast with mixed feelings about the sport overall, I always feel emotional around the Summer Olympics. So I was only slightly surprised to find myself crying as I watched Simone’s story unfold during the show.

But it felt like a healing cry ❤️‍🩹 It felt like a release and a moment to acknowledge some childhood wounds and choose to care for myself well now. 

It reminded me that that reaction is what art is created for 💖 To connect with our collective human experience and feel all the feels fully.

It’s so important — especially during times of stress — to pay attention to the way you feel when consuming media. Does it feel numbing and then leave you feeling anxious after? Or does it feel healing and inspire new creative ideas when you step away?

Consciously choosing to connect with what feels most beautiful to you is so powerful 💪

Today you’ll find me cheering for the girlies competing at qualifiers and if anyone comes for Simone this time again, I’m going to lose it 😤 

📖 Reading:

Have you ever read an entire book in one day? I actually don’t know if I had… until last Sunday. I was home alone and I spent the entire day reading, I Forgot to Die, by Khalil Rafati.

This is an incredible memoir that is a bit challenging to read AND at the same time, nearly impossible to put down. 

The gruesome details of someone’s life at complete rock bottom is both uncomfortable and somewhat relatable. I appreciate people who put it all out on the line, unafraid of what might come from sharing their most shameful moments. 

This is the ultimate redemption story and what I love most is the fact that it proves to people like me, in their 20s, that you don’t have to “make it” now or else suffer for the rest of your life.

The author explains the deep suffering of being an addict and homeless throughout his 20s and 30s. Not getting sober and beginning to build a new life until his 40s and now in his 50s he is thriving and running a multimillion-dollar wellness business. 

Yes, there are really no limits in this world! Whatever your past looks like, you are not disqualified from living the life you dream of now 🫶

🧘‍♀️ Enthusiasm:

I’m feeling super uplifted and excited about my morning journal sessions lately.

I’ve tried to make journaling part of my morning routine for years, but I could never seem to stick with it. Although I loveeeeee a 30,000 step slow morning routine full of wellness… journaling had always been one of those things I felt super resistant to on a daily basis.

I tried the ‘morning pages’ where you journal the second your eyes pop open before even getting out of bed… and I didn’t love it. Then I tried journaling right after my walk since that’s when I’m in my best, most creative headspace… wasn’t into it.

But now, it’s been 4 weeks and I’ve been genuinely looking forward to journaling every single morning while lying on my yoga mat, before starting the yoga class, not after, because after I don’t feel like it 😅

It’s all about fine-tuning your daily habits until you find the perfect rhythm for you. Adding this in at this exact time feels so supportive and inspired ✨

My favorite, favorite prompts right now are:

And one morning I even did 20 years from now. It’s fun to dream and create the vision for yourself. Not to freak out if life doesn’t go exactly to your script because… it won’t. But to give you some direction to channel your energy today toward the path you desire.

I’ve found that is the most joyful way to live 😇

So what practices, books, recipes, and mini rituals have been supporting you lately? 

Reply and let me know your recommendations 🩷

🤍 Jaclyn

P.S. Have you read 6 Pillars of Holistic Well-Being? I’d love to hear your favorite takeaways. I’d even hear you out if you think any of my wellness tips are insane and you can't get behind it. Let’s chat about it!