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A Skin Care Routine
I’m far from being a skin-care expert but my simple three-step skincare routine has changed my mornings.
Having a set skincare routine to follow every morning leaves me feeling put together and clean and combined with other factors is the key to maintaining clear skin for me.
Apart from that, it’s a way of showing myself love by taking care of my body’s largest organ – the skin. It has become a daily act of self-care.
Drinking Enough Water
In spite of knowing how important staying hydrated was, I could never follow through.
A few weeks ago I made the decision to actually stick to it and focus on making it a habit.
Part of that decision included purchasing a time-stamped water bottle since I had heard great reviews about it. This purchase gave me the motivation to follow through and make this habit finally stick.
As a result, I now feel better overall and my skin looks better than it ever has.
Journaling is one of these cliche things a lot of people in the wellness space told me to do which I didn’t do for a long time.
I hated writing (ironic considering this blog I know), it was difficult for me to sit down and write about my emotions and my life (and it occasionally still is).
However, once I got away from the idea in my head that journaling was only writing in a ‘diary-like style’ I opened up to it.
First I started with gratitude journaling in the mornings which I still do to this day. I write down what I’m grateful for, my intentions and affirmations for the day, and reflect on the previous day and what I learned from it.
A couple of months ago I started shadow work and guided journaling to dive deeper into my mental jungle to uncover limiting beliefs and habits I’ve picked up over the years.
Recently, my journal has been used more and more. I wrote down memories, ideas, limiting beliefs, and lessons the moment the thought occurred. It helped to get my thoughts on paper and heal certain inner wounds faster.
Self-Learning Habit
There was a time between school and now when I stopped learning consistently. I stopped studying since no one was ‘forcing’ me anymore. However, after a while, I realized how little I actually knew about the real world and how much there was to learn.
There’s a Taylor Swift Lyric that described my situation perfectly: ‘How can a person know everything at eighteen But nothing at twenty-two?’
Except I’m eighteen realizing I know nothing and who knows I might know even less at twenty-two.
This realization felt like a punch in the gut but I did what I knew best: trying and taking action.
So now I’m attempting to learn what I’m curious about and what I find relevant to navigate adulthood which, to be completely honest, scares the sh*t out of me.
Since then my anxiety has calmed down and I feel more positive looking into my future because I know everything is ‘figureoutable’ sooner or later.
