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Hi friends,

It’s Election Day. Hope you’re voting and taking care of yourself.

For that second one, here are resources I’m leaning on right now which you might like too. Anything snuggly, hug-gy and warm are on my list.

1) Calming nighttime routines from Womaze that I shared on my Instagram yesterday. The journal prompts are my favorite.

2) A month of self care ideas from Mellow Doodles. Today’s is making a playlist of your favorite, uplifting songs. If you do, please share it with me! Here’s my “You should be dancing” playlist on Spotify. It’s super cheesy, but I think you can handle it. In fact, you probably expect nothing less.

3) Tonight’s Mo Willems Democracy Doodle. The title alone just feels right. Tonight at 7pm ET, illustrator Mo Willems will host a doodling event accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra. I hope you’ll join me with your favorite crayons and markers.

4) Call your mom, a friend, or send cupcakes. I’m doing all three. Mom was going to the polls at 6am so I’m checking in on her, a friend already called me on her walk to grab a coffee, and I’m not-so-patiently waiting for a cafe in Washington, DC to open so I can order a delivery of cupcakes to someone working hard to prevent online voter suppression. Kindness matters and makes a difference.

What are you doing to instill self-care, inspiration, and calm in your life? Comment here or email me!

And please know how cherished you are, how much we all need you to take care of yourself, and that we are in this together. Always.

Love,
Lauree

Are you worn out?

I shared this yesterday on social media after more than a few clients sighed heavily during our conversations, and I noticed myself sighing back at them.

Why are we all worn out?

Because we’re trying to work at the same pace we would have a year ago.

It’s not possible, too much is happening, and more feels at stake right now. (More is at stake if you watch even seconds of the news and the countdown to the election. Hope you have a Voting Plan!)

Add to that that more is required of us intellectually, physically and emotionally every single day. Our new normals are constantly changing. I think and hope ultimately it’ll be a good thing, we’ll come out more appreciative of what we have, more connected to one another, but the middle part where everything upends is really uncomfortable.

No wonder we’re tired!

If you feel it too, please book a nap on your schedule today, or a walk without your phone in a pretty place, or 15 minutes staring out the window at clouds rolling by. The benefit of the latter is it requires you to be still for a while to notice their slow, steady pace.

Wishing us all a slower and steadier pace too.

We’ll get there. We’re getting there. Barreling ahead or forcing ourselves to fulfill unreasonable expectations is not working, so let’s collectively take it down a notch.

Nap, please.

What will you do to take it down a notch?