grateful for Mondays
Today has been a productive day off - had a sushi date with my husband, ran to the asian market and grocery store, restocked our fridge and pantry, and prepped the house for the week ahead.
Because my husband and I are both self-employed creatives, we have the fun of setting our own schedules. Instead of dreading Mondays, it's what I get to look forward to now.
Mondays have become a ritual where we take our work hats off to pause and focus on our overall health - checking in with our hearts, minds, and bodies.
Do we need more exercise and outdoor time; want to walk around at the lake? What do we want to meal plan for the week ahead? How have you been feeling with the direction of your work/project? Let's plan a pool day soon. Maybe we can go to the beach this summer! We need to get your passport renewed. I've been feeling [emotion] lately, can we talk about it?, etc.
Most of these questions and topics pop up intuitively, through a natural and curious desire to communicate, understand, and to see how we can support and be present for one another.
This may sound like pretty tame stuff, prerequisites to a secure relationship even, but looking back at my previous relationships and relationships I observed, this wasn't something prioritized, modeled, or common to me.
So I guess this is an expression of gratitude. Grateful for such a thoughtful, patient partner. Grateful that I have slowness in my life where I get to recover from extreme burnout, where I get explore my creative and spiritual nature, where there are no expectations besides to be myself.
I'm liking this little life. I'm learning not to be afraid of being happy. Leaving behind the old coping methods of "expecting the other shoe to drop".
I get to let my guard down, to be embraced, and to begin to understand what it means to feel safe. To regulate my nervous system. To accept more stillness and peace despite the chaos in the world.
Every day has its own stresses and opportunities, and not all Mondays always go as smoothly as today.
But when they do, it feels like a little piece of heaven on Earth, and I guess that's what I want to express to my blog today.
Now it's time to make dinner - tteokbokki!
Thanks for being here. ♥︎
Sincerely,
Nadine