by Bettina | Sep 2, 2026 | Self-care tips
The first time I sat down to do shadow work, I lasted about ten minutes. I had the notebook, the candle, a prompt I’d screenshotted from somewhere, and absolutely no idea what I was supposed to write. The question was “What part of yourself do you...
by Bettina | Sep 1, 2026 | Self-care tips
The first time I noticed the shift, I was standing in my kitchen at 7 a.m. in late August, holding a lukewarm coffee I’d forgotten to drink. Realizing I hadn’t followed anything resembling a routine in about ten weeks. Summer does that to me. It melts the...
by Bettina | Aug 26, 2026 | Self-care tips
I always feel it before I see it — late August, the light goes a little golden and slanted, the evenings carry a coolness they didn’t have a week ago, and something in me wants to tidy, plan, and nest. For years I ignored that pull and then got jolted into...
by Bettina | Aug 9, 2026 | Self-care tips
Last August I spent about a week feeling like a frayed wire — wired and exhausted at the same time, crying at a yogurt advert, lying awake at 2am with my heart going for no reason I could name. Nothing was actually wrong, which somehow made it worse. It took me a few...
by Bettina | Aug 2, 2026 | Self-care tips
It started with a familiar Sunday-night feeling: exhausted, weirdly unsatisfied, and unable to remember where the day had actually gone. I’d “relaxed” all weekend, yet somehow I felt more drained than when I’d clocked off on Friday. When I...
by Bettina | Jul 26, 2026 | Self-care tips
For a long time my Mondays started with that frantic, behind-before-I-begin feeling — and when I finally paid attention, I realized it almost always traced back to a chaotic, unplanned Sunday. I’d spend the weekend avoiding everything, then pay for it all week....
