Sunday SELF - C. 🥐 A. 🧦 R. 💛 E. 🐑

Hey 💌

I hope enjoyed your holiday season and are feeling the refreshing energy of a new year!

Sunday SELF - C. 🥐 A. 🧦 R. 💛 E. 🐑

Below are last months faves for Cooking, Art, Reading, and Enthusiasm/ what’s bringing me joy lately.

🥐 Cooking: Croissants

Our Christmas Eve breakfast that we spend all year looking forward to is croissant sandwiches.

Not gonna lie, our first 2 Christmases together, I bought Safeway croissants… ☠️🤢

Poor younger me. That’s just all I thought was possible back then.

But ever since I started sourdough (right after that second Christmas in 2022) I’ve made them from scratch.

I’m so encouraged by how quickly I seem to improve all the food we eat.

My first time, the croissants totally worked out, but they were very small and didn’t hold together great.

This year, they were SO perfect. Like honestly better than the ones I had in 🇫🇷 Paris 🥐 (don’t come for me).

That’s how I feel.

If you ever needed any motivation to start cooking from scratch, just think about, if you start NOW, how amazing will you be at it by this time next year?! Plus, it’ll just become second nature which makes it so easy.

Now that the whole process of making croissants feels so easy to me, I’m thinking about getting more creative with them, like I always see from this girl on Insta. She makes croissants all the time and bakes in chocolate or pistachio cream which look amazing and so professional.

🧦 Art: Hand Knit Alpaca Socks

I shared a couple months ago that I started knitting so that I could use my sheep’s wool to make homemade clothes and other items this coming Spring when they get sheared.

I’m still very much a beginner right now, but I’m getting so much inspiration from these amazing socks and baby booties I bought on Etsy.

As I was making my baby registry, and over this past year as I’ve tried to fill my own closet with only natural fibers, I realized that there are ZERO sock options on the market that are 100% organic cotton.

I guess in order to achieve the stretchy feeling we are all now used to, they blend cotton with synthetics like spandex, rayon, and polyester. Even the brands that claim to be all about organic, natural fibers all use a small percentage of these synthetic material.

I know everyone today is obsessed with doing “JUST A TINY BIT BETTER” than you were before you knew the information, but I have come to get so annoyed by that mindset.

If you learn that synthetic materials aren’t good for the body, then why would anyone want to spend premium prices for a blend that still has some of that unhealthy product you want to avoid???

Organic clothing has become mainstream which is great and gives us more style options, but as these attractive natural brands grow bigger and bigger, it breeds laziness and corners cut.

You want to be healthier and feel better so you aren’t just going to keep on buying the same cheap, synthetic socks. The ones online at the fancy organic clothing sites are like $60 for a pack of 3, but they’re still blended with some synthetics.

Instead, I choose to skip that “just a tiny bit better” step and go for the real deal.

It’s not cotton so I have to get used to a different feel. But change is good and getting out of lazy, “I have to just because I’ve always done this” habits is even better.

Yes, it’s more expensive to spend $45 on one pair of socks, but knowing the drastic difference makes it all worth it to me.

On Etsy, I paid a woman directly to hand knit my order for me using materials that are straight from a farm, never in a chemical, factory production process.

I swear, when I slip these on and step down, I feel an insane positive frequency flow up my entire body.

Because fabrics have an energetic frequency that impact our physical body and our mood.

Now that I know this, I’m so grateful that I get to give this same beautiful feeling to my baby once they arrive. Because as a newborn, they can’t tell me what feels irritating or soothing, exactly. Of course they can cry or be peaceful which I do think has a lot to do with the comfort of their environment and what is on their skin.

And not getting them desensitized to that low-grade “feeling like shit all the time” feeling that most of us have been walking around with our whole entire lives, is such a gift!

My socks and the baby booties are so so cute and I wish you guys could feel them!

This is the shop I ordered from if you want to get something too.

Socks are pretty advanced to make, so I’m currently working on knitting some leg warmers. 🤞 Fingers crossed that this works out and I can level up soon :)

💛 Reading: Letting Go by David Hawkins

I’m only partway through this book right now, but I already think it’s a must read for anyone who’s especially inspired to read personal development books during this New Year’s time. Becoming the best version of yourself this year is a wonderful pursuit!

In the book, the author explains what he calls, “The Scale of Emotions” and how they line up with levels of consciousness.

Everyone and everything emits energy and that energy can be measured.

When you are emitting a higher energetic frequency like joy, you feel the beauty of the world around you and others feel that radiating from you too.

Many of us, at least during certain seasons of our lives, exist in lower frequencies like fear, apathy, guilt, and shame. Living in this lower end of the scale is detrimental to health and leads to cruelty to yourself and others.

Each emotion is explained in order and in detail based on it’s energetic resonance and how it relates to your level of consciousness.

I get that some people can feel overwhelmed or just dismissive of any talk of energy and levels of consciousness. If that’s you, I always feel like the most approachable way to take in information like this is to focus on how it directly affects the physical body.

When you learn about how energy, emotions, and beliefs affect your physical health, it is usually a clear path to a felt deeper connection with a higher power and that’s where the interest in spirituality can come into play if it’s not already.

🐑 Enthusiasm: Small Farm LIFESTYLE ft. Sheepskin Slippers

Okay similar to the ART section today, but I have to share my husband’s and my obsession with these slippers that we got from my mom for Christmas.

We have not taken these off since getting them and now I don’t know how I walked around my house without them.

I’ve been sharing a lot about eating a small farm diet, but I also think this practice should be carried throughout every area of life.

We don’t buy any food products that support Big Food because it’s all poisonous, so why would we not apply that same logic to other products? It makes no sense to eat from small farms and then just go ahead a buy some polyester slippers from Target or Amazon. Those are the same big corporations that are poisoning your food so of course they’re using toxic materials in their other products as well.

Buying from small farms or small artisan businesses is the easiest way to boost your health drastically, while also creating a more pleasurable life for yourself.

The products and the food feel more luxurious because there is LIFE infused into them. That flows straight to you when you wear it, eat it, or have it in your home.

These slippers are handmade to order with 100% natural materials that have been processed without chemicals.

Most sheepskin you find online is processed with toxic chemicals. This company doesn’t do that!

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Investing in LESS makes it easier to splurge on the few high quality pieces that you’ll keep for life.

This year my family opted for a lot less gifts, like just one thing, but make it really high quality.

What’s your focus for 2026 / what has been bringing you life lately that you want to continue this year? Reply and share with me 🫶

🤍 Jaclyn