Your Weekly Mindful Morsel

Mindful Morsels appear every Wednesday

photos courtesy of me and nature

Happy good Wednesday, Reader 💜

It’s turning into a lovely autumn season where I live, and it’s my favorite time of the year to hit the trails (and the sidewalks). I adore falling in love with the different color palettes and patterns I find in nature, and at the same time, one of the hardest things for me to do is give myself time to really soak it in — free of scheduling and task worries.

There. Is. Always. So. Much. To. Do.

It feels miserable.

I’ve been getting a lot of tension headaches lately, and I realized that I’m experiencing a lot of anticipatory tension. Do you ever get that? I’m so worried about keeping up with my schedule or getting something done on time or getting to a certain point in my work or balancing my time or doing something fast enough that I’m clenching my body. Constantly. Like I’m dragging myself forward by the chin and shoulders just to eke across a constantly moving finish line I’ve imagined.

I find myself trying to cram more in and living in a constant state of troubleshooting my scheduling issues, but what I really (really, really, really) need is to be doing less. So I can stop distorting my bones with muscular tension. So I’m less panicked about time. So I can be more present with people and things I love. So I can hit those trails and soak in all the autumnal magic.

I’m looking into what I can put down, especially as I know that more things are coming up with the holiday season. I don’t want my being to burst at the seams in some vain attempt to ‘hold it all together.’ Because no thanks — I have a long history with holding it all together, and while I’m pretty good at it, we really need to part ways on my terms. That’s just not how I want to live.

So this week I’m offering the radical notion that we can all put some stuff down, and we all really need to. Feel free to be gentle or drop it with a loud thunk, but let something go already.

With kindness in heart,

Welcome to Zenful Mindings

I'm Brianne, a trauma-informed yoga & somatics facilitator, Reiki practitioner, and mindfulness advocate. I specialize in body literacy to help people reconnect with their bodies for a stronger sense of self, autonomy, and connection to natural rhythms.

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