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7 Steps to Find Your Dazzling This Winter
Rebecca Jackson • December 25, 2020
7 Steps to Creating A Personalized Self-Care Routine this winter
Creating a Personalized Self-Care routine is a necessary component to uncovering your dazzling, however in the winter months it can be even more important to help prevent and minimize the risks of Depression or Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). When building a personalized Self-Care Routine it is important to be realistic about your circumstances and abilities or you are setting yourself up for failure. The goal to be achieved from your Personalized Self-Care Routine is that you create a plan that is not only attainable, it is also important that it be something you desire to implement with some natural excitement... and ease... or it absolutely will not work. We give so much of ourselves and our time to other people and causes, it's important to take some of our time back and reallocate it to ourselves and to things that improve us as women without feeling guilty about it! So make the choice to value yourself and let these 7 steps help you get started in the right direction for 2021.
1.) Don't overlook your rest, nutrition, basic hygiene & personal care...
this is the most basic step to self-care.
2.) Step up your personal care game, in small, manageable ways.
ways that should make you feel dazzling on the daily.
Focus, not only on personal pampering,
but also on improving your mental & physical health.
3.) Do something little, just for you, that sparks joy in your heart
every single day, even if only for 10 minutes.
4.) Find a new hobby or tap back into an old hobby that
ignites inspiration & lights a fire of creativity in your soul.
5.) Work at finding fun & easy ways to make consistent daily decisions
to be active and sneak fitness into your days to maintain a balanced self-care routine.
6.) Allow yourself to daydream freely and do it daily, weekly, & monthly.
then have a goalsetting session so you can begin to lay out the smaller steps
you need to take, to make your dreams your actual reality.
7.) Don't Stop. Don't quit. Do not throw in the towel on yourself.
Don't stop working at building your own personalized self-care routine & continue reacquainting yourself with the ever evolving you, because before you know it,
you'll be realizing that you are truly Dazzling Darling!
Now, it is very important that you know and understand, that these steps are not to be read and implemented immediately, all at once, right off the rip. That would be insane an completely unmanageable, so don't even think about it, please. Instead these steps are to be approached more like karate belts, though admittedly none of my girls did karate so I only have a vague understanding of it. My understanding of karate is that you master a belt color and then you get to move up, that is how our steps to creating a personalized self-care routine are designed. You are to approach the 7 steps with the sole purpose of successfully achieving balance in the first step, then you can move on to implementing the second step, and so on, until you have successfully evaluated, implemented and attained balance within all seven steps while continuing to refine yourself in each previous step. This is not a race to attain perfection, it is a journey to self discovery and how best to care for yourself.
This journey should take as long as it needs to, and really should never technically stop, because you should reevaluate your implementation & execution of each step on a semi regular basis, since we are ever changing and ever growing beings, our needs are ever changing as well. It's time to make the decision to invest in yourself next year. Choose you & step into the New Year ready to focus on step one and finding balance within the most basic step this winter! By spring you will be well on your way to creating your personalized self-care routine and Dazzling your way through 2021! Be sure to sign up for our
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The entire foundation of the Dazzling District brand & company mission is built on the need for solid and personalized self-care, designed to care for your mind, body, and spirit uniquely. For you and created by you, with the help of some tips, methods & best practices. Shortly after I launched the website and blog, I wrote a 2-part Spring Cleaning Blog Series focused on detoxing your Mind and Body (if you haven't already read them use those links to do so ). D etoxing your Spirit is necessary to personal healing and growth too. It may be the most important of the three to focus on, however it is often the most difficult to do. It requires confronting ourselves with a level of vulnerability that many of us were never taught or demonstrated as children. This makes being capable and comfortable enough to do so, challenging and ultimately a little scary too. But it's necessary to prioritize your soul health, it's just as important as your gut health, your oral health or your heart health. Confronting our own spiritual toxins and roadblocks takes a real warrior soul, one that I know lives inside your heart. If you have already read and begun to implement the other 2 blogs in my Spring-Cleaning Series, then you have already begun to "Detox Your Spirit" (use the links posted above if you haven't yet read them) . By detoxing your mind, you have hopefully begun removing some of the things that negatively impact your spirit. By removing toxins from your mind by way of unhealthy technology patterns, viewing choices, listening choices, and other things you introduce to your mental health that influence your self-talk, you will begin the journey by clearing space for peace and reflection. These two things will begin the snowball effect that is necessary to achieving a true spiritual cleansing. Once you "Clean Your Mind " and move on to "Detox Your Body" then you have already continued your journey to "Detox Your Spirit" by allowing your mental health to continue improving while beginning the balancing of your gut health. By completing these other detoxes ahead of time you set the stage for a truly empowering spiritual cleansing. Which order you choose to attack them in however, is yours to decide. If you feel more limited in your mind as a result of a desperate need for a mental reboot, then begin by cleaning your mind. If you feel that the state of your body and physical endurance is where you are being most limited in personal growth, then begin by detoxing your body. This journey is yours to take, so I strongly encourage you listen to your heart to determine where to begin it and then check out the other blogs on those topics to do so. If starting right here, with your spirit is where you feel most called to begin, then I hope you do so, keeping these things in mind. Where you go to begin to "Detox Your Spirit" once you are ready, is a little harder to break down into an action plan because, it must be the most self-guided and vulnerable part of your Mind-Body-Spirit Spring Cleaning Journey in order to achieve an authentic spiritual cleansing. Below I offer you a few of the means that I personally prefer to practice in obtaining a clean spirit. I am by no means an expert in knowledge of, or devout in practicing many of these methods, as I am still actively working on improving & healing myself, walking in my own spiritual journey. This is the main reason that it's taken me nearly 3 years to get this blog to a place I was ready to share it. I've spent years finding the practices that worked for me and exploring all these different ways for myself. I encourage you to explore these ideas in your own life as you see fitting to an authentic spiritual cleansing for yourself. If other practices feel aligned for you, then those are the practices you should be exploring. The goal is an authentic cleansing for your spirit.
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