where did that girl go?

Hiii Reader, if you are new here, welcome. 😍

And if you have been here a while and have not heard from me in over a week, I owe you an explanation.

There was a launch, and then there was life. Both at the same time.

It was a lot. 😂

But I wanted to come back with something real today instead of just acting like the gap never happened.

These past few weeks I have been doing a lot of inner work. Thinking about my business long term, how I want to show up and more importantly how I want to FEEL while building it.

That led me to close my paid newsletter, simplify my business, put my phone down more and pick up a couple of books I had been meaning to read for months.

And somewhere in the middle of all of that I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and thought, okay where did THAT girl go?

The one who actually took care of herself more. Who did her hair often. Who felt good in her body.

I had been so busy building this business that I stopped prioritizing her.

So I decided to bring HER back. 💅🏼

Here is what I have been doing...

📚 Re-reading Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh, which is basically a gentle reminder that you do not have to wait until everything is figured out to feel okay. Peace is already here, in the small moments, if you actually let yourself notice them. Highly recommend if your brain has been running at 100mph lately

🚶‍♀️ Walking 8-10k steps daily and doing Kelsey Rose's Shaep program which is genuinely soooo good

🥤 Making my own juice every morning, aka drinking your retinol. (here is the recipe because your skin will thank you)

⭐️ Creating my secret Pinterest vision board. Sometimes when you are deep in the work you forget why you started. I needed a reminder of what I am actually building towards. The version of me I am working so hard to become. I highly recommend doing this, and I gave you a vision board template as a bonus when you signed up for this diary for a reason, if it's missing you can get it here.

👯‍♀️ I opened a free community for my courses because building something online can feel incredibly lonely and I did not want that for the women in my world. It is a space to connect, share wins, ask questions and feel less alone in the process

That said, all of it gets better when YOU feel better.

The version of me that walks 10k steps and drinks her retinol juice writes better diaries than the version running on caffeine and cortisol. 😂

Take care of the woman doing the building, because she is the whole business.