- Hello, welcome to my morning routine.
Elijah's still asleep, I'm being quiet.
I've been feeling good, I've been feeling like,
happiness in a way that is natural
and not just coming from tons and tons of caffeine.
So I thought I'd share what I'm doing right now.
Phase one, cleansing my face.
So, I don't actually wash my face
first thing in the morning, and you'll see why in a moment,
but I will foreshadow by saying if I wash my face first now,
it wouldn't really matter.
I think I'd then be up to wash my face four times a day.
And just a quick thing,
everything in this video is stuff that like,
this is actually what I do.
The only thing I should preface by saying
is that I am a brand ambassador for these products
I'm using by Decorte.
So first I use this, which is like a,
it's something that I've only gotten into in my adult life.
It's called a lotion.
While the sauna's heating up, I make my tea.
Pretty simple, I drink matcha green tea as of late.
I love coffee as well,
but I'm finding this is a little bit kinder on my stomach.
I will show you my remarkable tea making process,
which includes taking scoops of it
and putting it inside the water.
So this is why I sneak out of the bedroom
a little bit early before Elijah wakes up.
And this is something that I've done
for as long as I can remember.
Journaling, that's the baseline.
It is a time to just get all my thoughts out,
connect with myself, see where I'm at,
express gratitude if that's where it's at,
and then sometimes I throw in something different.
Right now one of the things that I've been
really interested in is my intuition, because I think I,
as well as every person on the planet,
has very strong intuition.
Some of us tend to be out of practice with using it,
like me, and fun fact about me,
when I don't listen to my intuition,
I get a bad stomachache.
Hello, okay, onto phase, whatever we're at now.
Are you exhausted by my process,
we haven't even begun, people.
Okay so, sauna, gonna start with 10, 15 minutes.
This is the time where I meditate.
I'll stretch, breathing exercises, clear my mind,
all while in a very, very hot sauna.
Let's go.
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The heat is so good while stretching.
Hello, now I will be showering off.
This is the time when I actually wash my face.
So washing my face,
then afterwards a little moisturizer and oil.
Okay, see ya.
And now here I am ready to workout.
If you wanna follow along,
I'm just gonna do a couple quick little things.
I've been doing PT,
so I usually have someone that is guiding me through,
but on the days that I'm not,
I just put some music on, noodle around,
do some of the moves that are supportive of my left knee,
which is what I'm rehabbing right now.
We love you, little knee.
So, here we go.
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All right, so, let's recap.
Yeah, the routine is a little bit crazy.
It was started while we were on our vacation,
our holiday break.
And I noticed that the more self-care I do,
the better I feel.
How long will I be able to continue it?
Unclear, you know work is still slow right now,
and so I have a lot more control over how I schedule my day.
So for me right now,
that looks like going to bed at eight o'clock
so that I can wake up early enough
to have this two hours to do all those things
before doing all my zoom calls or whatever it is.
But if we would've done this video at the end of last year,
before the holiday break,
my morning routine would have looked like
waking up 20 minutes before my first call,
rolling out of bed, not feeling great,
trying to get as much espresso into my mug as possible,
slugging it back, and then staring at a screen for,
you know, 10 hours.
This is also me maybe overdoing it
and trying to replenish myself
so that I can get off to a good start with this new year.
I think having a morning ritual more than anything
is the thing that I'm loving the most.
So every piece of what I did, too,
is like mind, body, and spirit.
If those are things you care about,
maybe think about what are those ways
that you can hit those on your own
with the tools that you have.
In the meanwhile, this is what I'm gonna be doing
until further notice.
A quick little addendum,
because I realized I didn't talk about food and water.
I drank water the entire time I was making the video,
I was just super focused on filming
that I forgot to show me drinking,
so just know that I do drink water.
And for my breakfast,
oh yes, mm-hmm,
I will be putting some vegan cheese on top of it
and have a little sandwich.
So that's that.
I think I may have this morning thing down pat,
down on lock.
I may have it down, that's all I'm saying.
Okay, bye.
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