My daughter is a musician and she told me that "Fast car" was the song she use to balance the speakers before a show. It is a perfect song ! Good choice :)
This it not something I use to be "THAT Girl". My morning mental health routine just helps me to be "A Girl"......ugh, yes! There is so much pressure and expectations to have it all together and this illusion that once you instill certain practices into your routine, that all will be fixed and you will have some miraculous "glow up" (whatever the hell that is 😆). But for so many of us who live with depression and neurodivergence while ALSO journeying through motherhood, that's just unrealistic. Every little step helps. Thank you for your light and your authenticity. 🥰 also, I like to listen to witchy tunes like Lorena Mckennit, or Ayla Nereo 😊
I love how you said “every little step helps.” SO TRUE! I don’t that’s mentioned enough! Thanks so much for your words and for the music recommendations- I’m always down for a good witchy tune 👌🏻💛👌🏻
Thanks for being so real about your struggles. I’ve found there is a lot of insight out there for adhd but not many focus on the late diagnosis issues along with the mental health struggles that have come from that, and then about just living life creatively and not about being a woman superhero.
I could not agree more. Finding that sort of insight and perspective can be really difficult to find. That’s why it’s really important to me to share about my personal experience as openly and honestly as I can, just in case someone else out there can relate. Thanks so much for sharing and for watching. I really appreciate your presence 💛✨💛
I’m a new subscriber and love your channel so much! I get up early too around 5. I make my bed, get dressed for a walk but first do a little meditation and light a candle and pull a couple of tarot cards and write some thoughts. I love morning walk and am trying to cut back on caffeine. Just one cup now. I eat healthy smoothie. I wish I could sew and be as creative as you. I live vicariously thru your creativity 💕 Thanks for great content.
Ooooh ok, definitely stealing your idea to light a candle and do a tarot pull in the morning because that sounds lovely! Thanks for watching, my love, happy to have you here 💛💛✨
I get it especially since I deal with depression and anxiety as well. I find that if I start off my day feeling rushed and anxiety filled (which I so often do), it sets the tone for the rest of the day. Very rarely do I wake up and feel at ease
I feel this! Nothing spikes my anxiety like rushing in the morning. It’s not every day I get to start off this easy, but when I can, I make it a point to find a s l o w morning for myself. Hoping you get a slow morning soon too because you absolutely deserve it 💛💛
This resonates so much with me, as someone who also has mental health issues. Thanks so much for sharing! Creating is so much harder when you’re neurodivergent, but “overflowing your cup” is such great advice. ❤
Thank you for the video! I have an OCD, depression and schizophrenia and I struggle a lot. But your video is so inspiring. I wish there were more videos like this on RUclips. Take care! ❤😊
That means the world to me that you said that, thank you, my love! For how many of us there are facing challenges with mental illness, I wish there were more videos on the topic here, too 💛💛
Thank you. Thank you for every moment you spend on this channel. The world needs you!! This was my first video I got to see of yours and I almost cried. Thank you
I can't remember the last time I went outside and it wasn't just to run errands. Every time I'm creative, I sit at my craft table and can't start 🙁 It's so difficult to explain to others that the smallest things sometimes take an incredible amount of energy and my brain no longer wants to work and the body has pressed the big red button in the brain that overrides everything..everday feels like acting against a virus in my brain that stops me from living life😕 (welcome to depression and adhd)😢
Right?!? It’s like all the gears come grinding to a halt with no way to get them going again. I find doing it first thing helps to avoid that shutdown. The good news is that your creativity WILL come back, even if it’s not here today. Thanks for watching, love! 💛💛
I'm beginning a whole year reset using a morning routine to help with anxiety, but also to help me reach some goals I have set.Seems like a great idea for my 50th year on earth. I started a channel to keep me accountable. 💮🍀
This video is a gold mine of tips, thank you 🙏 I'm a homeschooling mama of 2, with ADHDand a combined anxiety/depression disorder. My youngest has just turned 1 and both kids wake super early so I'm staying up later in the evenings at the moment to get some me time, but really want to move towards early mornings instead, will definitely be revisiting this video as soon as that becomes realistic once they're sleeping in just a little bit longer
Oof, I hear ya on the early risings- my kids did that for the longest time too! That’s what’s nice about routines, though, you can just fit them in wherever. I’ve definitely done this ritual in the evenings or even the afternoons because that’s what my kids would allow 🤷🏼♀️😅. Thanks so much for watching, my love. Glad you’re finding time for yourself wherever you can!💛💛
Just wanted to update to say I now get up before my kids to write morning pages and it's going great! 🙏 Hoping to add in exercise at some point soon too. Thanks again for the video, not sure quite what it is that resonated so much for me, but since watching it the first time it's genuinely been the thing that's motivated me to start forming a morning routine again, so yes, really appreciate it ❤️ hope you're doing well
I find these things so helpful for my mental health! Waking up early and journaling and doing breathwork or meditation then exercising before work has been such a game changer for me! We love all the same things! I really want to get out into nature more so I'm making more of an effort to walk or take a run in the woods. And the littering! OMG what is wrong with people! I'm always picking stuff up walking around. Glad to find your channel. We are doing a lot of the same things! (except I can't sew...lol). I tried reading the Artists Way- got about halfway through. ...still trying to get my creativity back....
@@charitypratt2042 BESTIE YES!!! I’m so happy we found each other, thanks for being here!! So, from everything I’ve seen (including my own personal experience) only getting half way through the Artist’s Way is basically the same thing as completing it 🤣 I think I’m going to give it one more shot just to see if I can make it all the way through, but for some reason those final 6 weeks are apparently where creativity goes to die! 🤦🏼♀️😅
As I am figuring things out since finding out I may have ADHD, (on standby for an official diagnosis) your video is a welcome treat. I am also reading A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD, it’s quite helpful for my journey. And your video is especially relevant to me as an artist/artisan and homeschooling mother of 3 boys. 😅 One of my main goals this year is to build myself a new wardrobe, I really like your choice of patterns! Especially the wrap dress, pants and classic shirt! Shopping for an off white linen fabric in fact, for the shirt 🥰
Oh I will definitely be checking out that book, thanks for sharing!! So excited for you to build your own wardrobe this year! That’s one practice that, once I started, I will never look back. Thanks for watching, my love 💛💛
I experience a lot of the same things you do, I switched to MudWtr and it’s been great, no jittery feelings anymore and I don’t have a “crash” in the middle of the day, even if I still get sleepy and need a nap. I’ve read a lot about the problems with coffee not only being the caffeine, but the pesticides present on the coffee beans. Just a helpful thought for you if you’re interested. Thank you for sharing all of this, would love to adopt some of these practices. 💛
I am so sorry for your loss 💛 While grief is such a necessary process after a loss, it’s still hard as hell to get through. Sending all my love and support to you ✨💛✨
Thank you so much for sharing your morning routine! I'm starting to be out of the woods of a heavy two years depression, and i totally will try to create things on the morning! (and in love with the simplicity shirt!) thank you ❤ (and i'm really into melatonin by Zephyr or Jericho acapella by Iniko!)
Ooooooh thanks for the music recommendations, looking forward to checking those out! Coming out of a black depression hole can be such a struggle, but well worth the work. I’m rooting for you, my love! Thanks so much for sharing your words and for watching 💛💛💛
I would do the Simplicity vintage top pattern to go with the eyelet fabric, but that's based on pure whim so feel free to disregard, haha! The part where you make your bed in the morning so that you have that to fall into at night is like how sometimes I make myself do things by telling myself I'm doing them for "Future Teresa." and I will also thank myself for things "Past Teresa" did that I'm enjoying in the present. I find it to be decent motivation for things I would rather put off doing. I love dancing and I've got a playlist with over 1000 songs just for that purpose, but the first one I thought of at the end of the video was The Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Experience.
First video of yours I've watched and I'm only sad I haven't watched sooner! I can totally relate. I love crocheting or doing something creative in the morning as soon as I get up. Hardest part for me is putting it down to move into the next thing 😅
I completely relate! If I didn’t have kids asking me to make them breakfast, chances are good I’d be hiding in my crafty basement cave well into the afternoon 😅🤣 Thanks so much for your kind words, I really appreciate your being here 💛💛
Wonderful video, thank you so much for sharing all this very inspiring and helpful info :) I am never alone where I do my daily walk so I don't really bust a move in the suburbs 😂 but I do like to do mini-one-song work outs throughout the day at home, and have been loving "The New Thing Dies" by Ray Bull right now :)
Thank you so so much for showing some reality and mom struggles with mental health! It's so hard to find women who use all the resources like medication and routines to function. Any advice for waking up in the morning? I've tried everyday for weeks setting my alarm on the desk to get me out of bed and I turn it off and go back to sleep and decide the day isn't worth it and wake up to my toddler crying waking up as my alarm. I know I'd do much better filling my cup and up early and I get enough sleep but my depression etc says no..
This was a tough one for me to crack- personally, the only thing I’ve found that helps is actually having a solid nighttime routine that prioritizes my sleep. It took a while for me to really work it out, but making sure I implement practices like no screens 1 hour before bed, reading, skincare, tea, in bed by 9 (easier said than done!) has helped me get the rest I need in order to actually get out of bed when I’d like to the next morning. Honor your body, rest when you need, and don’t feel pressured to cram it all in. Sometimes getting more sleep in the morning and only doing 1 or 2 of my morning routine practices is equally helpful for my mental health! Hope this helps, my love 💛💛
@theMaidenMother the last 3 days I have been waking up to my toddler still (7am usually) but we go for a long walk and then do a small workout video while bf is going. It's been better than rushing to bf or the couch while I put tv on for him. He points to the door and stroller over tv which makes me feel better. I'm working on digital minimalism and lowering my addiction to RUclips rn so a set time daily so I don't obsess and try to compare too much lol thank you for your video I'll rewatch it today so I can write tips down now
❤thank you for this video! It’s such a great idea to use the first hour to create. I’m gonna use your idea to draw, journal in my Grimoire/ BoS. My walking into dancing song is “Acappella” by Kelis and “Let love” by Res. I would love to see your journey through the artist way.
Ooooh this is toxic as hell. Therapy, anti-depressants, a solid support system- these can all go a long way in helping someone crawl out of a dark hole. Good luck on your journey, but these kinds of comments are not going to help you (or anyone) in that regard, my friend. What were you hoping to achieve with this? That I’d feel shit reading it….and then what? I’d like to believe that’s not true and that you’re actually better than that. Have a better day 💛
For those who made it to the end of the video: "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman! Leave yours below, I can't wait to add them to my playlist 🙌🏻🤣
My daughter is a musician and she told me that "Fast car" was the song she use to balance the speakers before a show. It is a perfect song ! Good choice :)
Mine is Just Feels Good by Imani Coppola!
This it not something I use to be "THAT Girl". My morning mental health routine just helps me to be "A Girl"......ugh, yes! There is so much pressure and expectations to have it all together and this illusion that once you instill certain practices into your routine, that all will be fixed and you will have some miraculous "glow up" (whatever the hell that is 😆). But for so many of us who live with depression and neurodivergence while ALSO journeying through motherhood, that's just unrealistic. Every little step helps. Thank you for your light and your authenticity. 🥰 also, I like to listen to witchy tunes like Lorena Mckennit, or Ayla Nereo 😊
I love how you said “every little step helps.” SO TRUE! I don’t that’s mentioned enough! Thanks so much for your words and for the music recommendations- I’m always down for a good witchy tune 👌🏻💛👌🏻
Thanks for being so real about your struggles. I’ve found there is a lot of insight out there for adhd but not many focus on the late diagnosis issues along with the mental health struggles that have come from that, and then about just living life creatively and not about being a woman superhero.
I could not agree more. Finding that sort of insight and perspective can be really difficult to find. That’s why it’s really important to me to share about my personal experience as openly and honestly as I can, just in case someone else out there can relate. Thanks so much for sharing and for watching. I really appreciate your presence 💛✨💛
I’m a new subscriber and love your channel so much! I get up early too around 5. I make my bed, get dressed for a walk but first do a little meditation and light a candle and pull a couple of tarot cards and write some thoughts. I love morning walk and am trying to cut back on caffeine. Just one cup now. I eat healthy smoothie. I wish I could sew and be as creative as you. I live vicariously thru your creativity 💕 Thanks for great content.
Ooooh ok, definitely stealing your idea to light a candle and do a tarot pull in the morning because that sounds lovely! Thanks for watching, my love, happy to have you here 💛💛✨
I get it especially since I deal with depression and anxiety as well. I find that if I start off my day feeling rushed and anxiety filled (which I so often do), it sets the tone for the rest of the day. Very rarely do I wake up and feel at ease
I feel this! Nothing spikes my anxiety like rushing in the morning. It’s not every day I get to start off this easy, but when I can, I make it a point to find a s l o w morning for myself. Hoping you get a slow morning soon too because you absolutely deserve it 💛💛
This resonates so much with me, as someone who also has mental health issues. Thanks so much for sharing! Creating is so much harder when you’re neurodivergent, but “overflowing your cup” is such great advice. ❤
This means a lot- thanks for watching, my love (also, I genuinely love your username 🤣👌🏻💛)
Thank you for the video! I have an OCD, depression and schizophrenia and I struggle a lot. But your video is so inspiring. I wish there were more videos like this on RUclips. Take care! ❤😊
That means the world to me that you said that, thank you, my love! For how many of us there are facing challenges with mental illness, I wish there were more videos on the topic here, too 💛💛
“Littering… can we not?”
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Enjoying your content immensely. Thanks for sharing.
Seriously though!! How do people still have garbage and think “yeah, the ground is a perfect place for this”?????? Make it make sense 🙄🫠😅
Thank you. Thank you for every moment you spend on this channel. The world needs you!! This was my first video I got to see of yours and I almost cried. Thank you
Ok, this comment made ME almost cry. THANK YOU 😭😭💛
I can't remember the last time I went outside and it wasn't just to run errands. Every time I'm creative, I sit at my craft table and can't start 🙁
It's so difficult to explain to others that the smallest things sometimes take an incredible amount of energy and my brain no longer wants to work and the body has pressed the big red button in the brain that overrides everything..everday feels like acting against a virus in my brain that stops me from living life😕
(welcome to depression and adhd)😢
Right?!? It’s like all the gears come grinding to a halt with no way to get them going again. I find doing it first thing helps to avoid that shutdown. The good news is that your creativity WILL come back, even if it’s not here today. Thanks for watching, love! 💛💛
Thank you for this inspiring video! You show the possibility of overcoming and doing the best you can. Mahalo.💜
I'm beginning a whole year reset using a morning routine to help with anxiety, but also to help me reach some goals I have set.Seems like a great idea for my 50th year on earth. I started a channel to keep me accountable. 💮🍀
Congrats on starting the channel, I can’t wait to check that out! 💛💛
This video is a gold mine of tips, thank you 🙏 I'm a homeschooling mama of 2, with ADHDand a combined anxiety/depression disorder. My youngest has just turned 1 and both kids wake super early so I'm staying up later in the evenings at the moment to get some me time, but really want to move towards early mornings instead, will definitely be revisiting this video as soon as that becomes realistic once they're sleeping in just a little bit longer
Oof, I hear ya on the early risings- my kids did that for the longest time too! That’s what’s nice about routines, though, you can just fit them in wherever. I’ve definitely done this ritual in the evenings or even the afternoons because that’s what my kids would allow 🤷🏼♀️😅. Thanks so much for watching, my love. Glad you’re finding time for yourself wherever you can!💛💛
Just wanted to update to say I now get up before my kids to write morning pages and it's going great! 🙏 Hoping to add in exercise at some point soon too. Thanks again for the video, not sure quite what it is that resonated so much for me, but since watching it the first time it's genuinely been the thing that's motivated me to start forming a morning routine again, so yes, really appreciate it ❤️ hope you're doing well
This was like looking in a mirror. Thank you so much for making this video
Thanks for watching, love. I appreciate that 💛💛
I find these things so helpful for my mental health! Waking up early and journaling and doing breathwork or meditation then exercising before work has been such a game changer for me! We love all the same things! I really want to get out into nature more so I'm making more of an effort to walk or take a run in the woods. And the littering! OMG what is wrong with people! I'm always picking stuff up walking around. Glad to find your channel. We are doing a lot of the same things! (except I can't sew...lol). I tried reading the Artists Way- got about halfway through. ...still trying to get my creativity back....
@@charitypratt2042 BESTIE YES!!! I’m so happy we found each other, thanks for being here!! So, from everything I’ve seen (including my own personal experience) only getting half way through the Artist’s Way is basically the same thing as completing it 🤣 I think I’m going to give it one more shot just to see if I can make it all the way through, but for some reason those final 6 weeks are apparently where creativity goes to die! 🤦🏼♀️😅
@@theMaidenMother we should read it again together!
Oh the song I busted a move to the other day just straight up in front of other people was “Damn it feels god to be me” 😊
Your creative projects are sooooo exciting ❤ How did you discover you like sewing ? I feel like I dont know which creative activity I like the most.
As I am figuring things out since finding out I may have ADHD, (on standby for an official diagnosis) your video is a welcome treat. I am also reading A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD, it’s quite helpful for my journey.
And your video is especially relevant to me as an artist/artisan and homeschooling mother of 3 boys. 😅
One of my main goals this year is to build myself a new wardrobe, I really like your choice of patterns! Especially the wrap dress, pants and classic shirt! Shopping for an off white linen fabric in fact, for the shirt 🥰
Oh I will definitely be checking out that book, thanks for sharing!! So excited for you to build your own wardrobe this year! That’s one practice that, once I started, I will never look back. Thanks for watching, my love 💛💛
I experience a lot of the same things you do, I switched to MudWtr and it’s been great, no jittery feelings anymore and I don’t have a “crash” in the middle of the day, even if I still get sleepy and need a nap. I’ve read a lot about the problems with coffee not only being the caffeine, but the pesticides present on the coffee beans. Just a helpful thought for you if you’re interested. Thank you for sharing all of this, would love to adopt some of these practices. 💛
Omg this a must needed video for me! I had struggled with depression recently after suffering a loss in the family. Great video!
I am so sorry for your loss 💛 While grief is such a necessary process after a loss, it’s still hard as hell to get through. Sending all my love and support to you ✨💛✨
Thank you so much for sharing your morning routine! I'm starting to be out of the woods of a heavy two years depression, and i totally will try to create things on the morning! (and in love with the simplicity shirt!) thank you ❤
(and i'm really into melatonin by Zephyr or Jericho acapella by Iniko!)
Ooooooh thanks for the music recommendations, looking forward to checking those out! Coming out of a black depression hole can be such a struggle, but well worth the work. I’m rooting for you, my love! Thanks so much for sharing your words and for watching 💛💛💛
You’re so comforting ✨🥹 also been living for Olivia Rodrigo right now ngl 😂 it’s like I’m reliving my angsty teen years all over again 😎
Yes! I am always a fan on angsty teen jamz 🙌🏻😎👌🏻 Thanks for watching, my love! 💛
I would do the Simplicity vintage top pattern to go with the eyelet fabric, but that's based on pure whim so feel free to disregard, haha! The part where you make your bed in the morning so that you have that to fall into at night is like how sometimes I make myself do things by telling myself I'm doing them for "Future Teresa." and I will also thank myself for things "Past Teresa" did that I'm enjoying in the present. I find it to be decent motivation for things I would rather put off doing. I love dancing and I've got a playlist with over 1000 songs just for that purpose, but the first one I thought of at the end of the video was The Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Experience.
Oooooh I love that! Gonna be looking out for Future Caley more often 😉👌🏻 Also- you KNOW I’m checking this song out, that sounds amazing 🙌🏻
First video of yours I've watched and I'm only sad I haven't watched sooner! I can totally relate. I love crocheting or doing something creative in the morning as soon as I get up. Hardest part for me is putting it down to move into the next thing 😅
I completely relate! If I didn’t have kids asking me to make them breakfast, chances are good I’d be hiding in my crafty basement cave well into the afternoon 😅🤣 Thanks so much for your kind words, I really appreciate your being here 💛💛
Wonderful video, thank you so much for sharing all this very inspiring and helpful info :) I am never alone where I do my daily walk so I don't really bust a move in the suburbs 😂 but I do like to do mini-one-song work outs throughout the day at home, and have been loving "The New Thing Dies" by Ray Bull right now :)
Mini-on-song-workouts?!?!? I LOVE that idea! Can’t wait to give that a try, thank you so much for sharing and for watching, love 💛💛
Wow! Thank you so much. I quite also cafe. I wish you a peaceful day from Québec, Canada. 🙂💜✨
Oh I’ve always wanted to visit Québec! Thanks for watching, love! 💛💛
needed this, thank you! 🥰 …always blasting Taylor Swift anything! 🎶
You know, I’m not the biggest Swifty, but “Anti-Hero” has been a staple for me lately! I approve of this music choice, thank you for sharing 💛💛
Outstanding suggestion. Many thanks.
Thank you! 💛🤗
Thank you so so much for showing some reality and mom struggles with mental health! It's so hard to find women who use all the resources like medication and routines to function.
Any advice for waking up in the morning? I've tried everyday for weeks setting my alarm on the desk to get me out of bed and I turn it off and go back to sleep and decide the day isn't worth it and wake up to my toddler crying waking up as my alarm. I know I'd do much better filling my cup and up early and I get enough sleep but my depression etc says no..
This was a tough one for me to crack- personally, the only thing I’ve found that helps is actually having a solid nighttime routine that prioritizes my sleep. It took a while for me to really work it out, but making sure I implement practices like no screens 1 hour before bed, reading, skincare, tea, in bed by 9 (easier said than done!) has helped me get the rest I need in order to actually get out of bed when I’d like to the next morning. Honor your body, rest when you need, and don’t feel pressured to cram it all in. Sometimes getting more sleep in the morning and only doing 1 or 2 of my morning routine practices is equally helpful for my mental health! Hope this helps, my love 💛💛
@theMaidenMother the last 3 days I have been waking up to my toddler still (7am usually) but we go for a long walk and then do a small workout video while bf is going. It's been better than rushing to bf or the couch while I put tv on for him. He points to the door and stroller over tv which makes me feel better. I'm working on digital minimalism and lowering my addiction to RUclips rn so a set time daily so I don't obsess and try to compare too much lol thank you for your video I'll rewatch it today so I can write tips down now
Would very much like to see your experience with The Artist's Way!
Thanks for letting me know! I’ll start documenting my experience and will share it here in a few weeks 👌🏻💛
❤thank you for this video! It’s such a great idea to use the first hour to create. I’m gonna use your idea to draw, journal in my Grimoire/ BoS. My walking into dancing song is “Acappella” by Kelis and “Let love” by Res. I would love to see your journey through the artist way.
Oh your creativity activities sound so lovely- especially journaling in your grimoire! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for watching, my love! 💛💛
Beautiful Things Benson Boone
I just gave this a listen for the first time and it is such a sweet and endearing song. Thanks so much for sharing 💛💛
'Promosm'
Another snake oil seller
What exactly am I selling to anyone? If it doesn’t sound like a good fit for you, don’t do it. Simple.
you never actually experienced depression lol
Ooooh this is toxic as hell. Therapy, anti-depressants, a solid support system- these can all go a long way in helping someone crawl out of a dark hole. Good luck on your journey, but these kinds of comments are not going to help you (or anyone) in that regard, my friend. What were you hoping to achieve with this? That I’d feel shit reading it….and then what? I’d like to believe that’s not true and that you’re actually better than that. Have a better day 💛
And you know this, how?
That is a sad and rude comment. Let's all have empathy for one another.
sending you light and love.