25 Practices to Protect Your Peace
1. Create a REST manifesto.
2. Connect with your collective.
3. Give thanks for the gift of imperfection.
4. Sit down, close your eyes, and take three, long, deep breaths.
5. Take a walk, as slowly as possible.
6. Read a bit from your go-to book or find your new go-to book.
7. Take a nap. Get a good night's rest.
8. Don't make a decision right away. Give yourself 24 hours before responding.
9. Say "no" to most things and say "yes" to the sacred.
10. Remind yourself - everything you need is already within you.
11. Know that your body is a site of liberation - no person, place, or thing owns you. Act accordingly.
12. Let time do its job - don't react, sit with it, and wait for it to pass.
13. Plant something - whether an actual physical seed or a figurative one.
14. Cultivate an awareness of your body, the ultimate keeper of wisdom.
15. Move and be gentle. Your body keeps score.
16. Allow for stillness - when you are ready to be a student, a teacher will appear.
17. Err on the side of integrity, especially if it's hard.
18. Write for yourself, not others.
19. You are not your job - reclaim your true identity.
20. Affirm yourself - you don't need permission to be free.
21. Create a curated space of love, imagination, and comfort.
22. Grieve what you have lost.
23. Daydream.
24. Give yourself grace, over and over and over again.
25. Practice the same compassion for yourself that you do for others.
2. Connect with your collective.
3. Give thanks for the gift of imperfection.
4. Sit down, close your eyes, and take three, long, deep breaths.
5. Take a walk, as slowly as possible.
6. Read a bit from your go-to book or find your new go-to book.
7. Take a nap. Get a good night's rest.
8. Don't make a decision right away. Give yourself 24 hours before responding.
9. Say "no" to most things and say "yes" to the sacred.
10. Remind yourself - everything you need is already within you.
11. Know that your body is a site of liberation - no person, place, or thing owns you. Act accordingly.
12. Let time do its job - don't react, sit with it, and wait for it to pass.
13. Plant something - whether an actual physical seed or a figurative one.
14. Cultivate an awareness of your body, the ultimate keeper of wisdom.
15. Move and be gentle. Your body keeps score.
16. Allow for stillness - when you are ready to be a student, a teacher will appear.
17. Err on the side of integrity, especially if it's hard.
18. Write for yourself, not others.
19. You are not your job - reclaim your true identity.
20. Affirm yourself - you don't need permission to be free.
21. Create a curated space of love, imagination, and comfort.
22. Grieve what you have lost.
23. Daydream.
24. Give yourself grace, over and over and over again.
25. Practice the same compassion for yourself that you do for others.
