Your Spring Reset

Hello Loves,

With the arrival of Spring and the sensuality of the season’s flowers, sunshine, and nature’s re-emergence, I want to offer some ways you can revel in the season like never before. Are you ready for a reset? Do you want to feel inspired and energized? Try this for a day…or 3 or 7…and see what *fantastic* feels like. The effort is well worth it. Are you ready?!

Recipe for Nourishing days and Restorative Nights…

1. Live with the light! This experiment starts in the evening. Eat dinner before the sun sets. Withstand the urge to consume anything but water or herbal tea in the remaining hours before bed. Don’t turn on any lights as the natural light fades. Light candles. Turn off your smart phone after dinner and tuck it away the whole evening. Rather than watching a movie/Netflix….unwind gently with some stretching, a bath, or quiet conversation. Go to bed when it’s dark. Yes, that is likely between 8-8:30pm. You are going to be so well rested!

2. Sleep as long as you possibly can. When you are refreshed (or your schedule/kids/dog need you to be up!), take a gentle pace to your morning. Drink a liter of pure room temperature water with 1/2 freshly squeezed lemon juice and/or a pinch of pink Himalayan sea salt. Do 10 minutes of gentle stretching. Just move in ways that feel good and get your circulation moving. Dry brush your whole body and take a lukewarm shower with your favorite body wash.

3. When you dress, choose something you feel pretty, stylish, and comfortable in. Wear something you tend to save that makes you feel lovely. Apply a scent you enjoy. Spend a few extra moment with your hair/makeup to try something new.

4. Take some time to orient your Spirit for the day with you personal mix of prayer, meditation, journaling, gratitude practice, and breath work. Choose a word or phrase that you wish to embody for the day ahead and note 3 actions you can take to support your embodying that today.

5. Prepare a satisfying and balanced breakfast. Be sure to include protein, fat, fiber, and produce. Some examples include a blueberry-spinach-flaxmeal-almond butter smoothie and a spinach omelette with Matcha Latte. Take your time to enjoy the meal without reading or watching anything. Ideally, you will eat this outside or by a window with a view.

6. Cross off, delegate, or re-schedule several things on today’s calendar. Use the extra time to be outside with your shoes off walking in the grass, putter in the garden, or hike on a trail nearby. Be in nature and breath it all in!

7. Enjoy a lunch date with a friend or family member and laugh a lot. Tell them something you love about them. Romp down memory lane and celebrate the silliness you have shared.

8. In the afternoon, take 10 minutes to sit and do nothing. Just listen to the quiet, or the birds, or whatever ambient sound is there. Resist the need to problem solve or remember. Just be.

9. Eat an early, light dinner. If you finish by 6pm and don’t enjoy breakfast until 9am, you will give your system 15 hrs to rest and re-set. Early dinners improve sleep, reduce excess weight (our metabolism is 30% less efficient in digesting our evening calories….this means it’s more likely to turn dinner calories into extra weight), and allow the brain to repair (the glymphatic system can only be activated when the blood flow of digestion is done early in the night).

10. Repeat often until you feel rested, bright, calm, and clear. Syncing our patterns with the rising and setting of the sunlight actually helps balance blood sugar, helps us get to and maintain our healthiest weight, calms and balances the nervous system, improves immunity and digestion, and equips us to live with intention and passion.

Cheering you on,
Rachel