My (tiny) self-care tips

Self-care, a very important practice but one we often forget to practice. 
It’s easy to get caught up in life. We have goals to reach, deadlines to finish, we need to be social, we need to do this and that - CHAOS -
We’re all living in a little storm of chaos because we all have something to do always. But do we really? And do you need a lot of time to practice self-care? 

I can’t stress enough how important it is to take care of your body and mind, mentally and physically. Practicing self-care never ever is a waste of time, it’s investing your time in the rights things, investing in your health! That’s one of the things I get to hear most.. “I don’t have time to cook healthy”, “I don’t have time to be active”, “I don’t have time to meditate”, … The list continues. 

Investing your time in your health, by doing things such as practicing self-care, will actually help you on the long run and it will also help you to achieve anything else in life. Even if that means working 10 minutes less, those 10 minutes that you think are a “waste of time”, will actually help you to achieve exactly that want you want because when you’re mentally/physically not strong enough, your body will show sooner or later. 

Practicing self-care can be easy and not too time consuming. Here are some of my (tiny) tips on how you can practice self-care; 

• Drink enough water 

• Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables

• Take care of your gut

• Turn off your phone, even if it’s just for 10 minutes

• Go for a walk, breathe in some fresh air

• Sing out loud along with your music 

• Cry a little

• Meditate, even if it’s just 5 minutes

• Stretch your body 

• Practice yoga

• Read a book 

• Cook a meal

• Take a warm bath

• Treat yourself to a spa day or do one at home

• Be active in any kind of way

• Sleep enough

• Say more no to others

• Say more yes to yourself

• Compliment yourself

• Get out of your comfort zone

• Don’t use social media 

• Breath exercises

• Be still

• Have a good laugh

• Help someone

• Journal

• Take yourself out on a date

• Check in with your emotions

• Learn something new

• Get back into a hobby

• Dance, even if you don’t know how to dance

• Clean your place

• Watch a movie

• Make a painting

• Draw something

• Join a workshop

How to set your soul free?

At some point in our lives, we all come across this feeling of being lost and being unsure about what path to go on.
It doesn’t get any easier these days with having the pressure of society and feeling pressured to know exactly what you’re doing and where you’re going to all the time.

“Where do you see yourself within 5 years?”

Probably one of the most toxic questions you could ever ask someone if you ask me.
It’s fine not to know where you’re heading to, it’s totally okay to be still figuring out who you want to be or what kind of job you see yourself doing and it’s more than fine to live in the moment and not even think about the next 5 years.

Here are some of my tips that you can put into practice right away that will help you on your journey of soul searching:

Tip 1: Meditate

Your inner voice has more to tell you than you think, you just have to listen close enough.
Uncover your life purpose by investigating different various aspects of your life.
Meditating helps us to remember who we are and realize our fullest potential by sitting down and bringing our mind back to the present moment and back to your body.

Tip 2: Journaling

Even if you’re not the biggest writer, writing down your thoughts and emotions only benefits you and helps you to grow. Analyzing your thoughts and emotions can be very interesting and it might help you to motivate and inspire you to get back on track or to come up with new ideas.
Every day, write down the 3 things you’re grateful for.

Tip 3: Yoga

Yoga helps you to live in alignement with your true self.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience through the mind-body vehicle. ~Amarjit Singh

Begin by creating awareness of your surroundings and environment you’re currently in. Everything serves a purpose, nothing is random. Everything you’re doing in life has a reason and guides you to your soul’s purpose.

Tip 4: Work out

Try to be active for at least 30 minutes a day. Go for a walk or a run, do some weight training or pilates, go dancing. Just move your body!
When you workout, your body realeses endorphins which triggers the positive emotions in your body.

Tip 5: Healthy environment

Surround yourself with people that will help you grow and share the same values in life. Just as much as you want to be aligned with yourself, you want to be aligned with your surrounding as well.

Tip 6: Positive self talk

Wake up, look in the mirror and tell yourself how beautiful you are. Say what you love about yourself.
When you say these things out loud, your mind is going to process is differently and absorb it even better.
Imagine thinking you have a headache all day.. be sure you’ll actually have one by the end of the day.
Our mind is so much stronger than we think. So it’s so important to compliment yourself and have some positive self talk.

Tip 7: Set goals & challenges

Never stop learning and never stop challenging yourself as a person.
When you’re setting goals, you’ll continue learning new things and this means growing as a person.
Personal growth is so important and you should never stop growing as a human being. Try out new stuff, fail at it or even quit if you don’t like it. But all these steps will help you finding the things you do truly like and give you a better idea of what you want to do.

Love,

Jelka

Welcome!

Hi lovely people,

Welcome to my blog!

It’s been a while since the last time I have written something online and gosh.. How I missed it.

I used to have a fashion blog when I was only 13 years old for a couple of years but then I started traveling on the age of 17 and keeping up with my blog was really difficult. I left to China as my first solo-trip and as my previous blog was made on “Blogspot” and China blocked this website, it was even more difficult for me to continue writing. Then I discovered Instagram and YouTube and I have been very focussed on creating content on these platforms for the past couple of years.

If you follow me on Instagram, you might have noticed already that I love writing down my thoughts and emotions through my captions. As much as I love Instagram and the way I can connect with people from all over this beautiful world, I feel like it doesn’t allow me enough space to truly explain myself in certain topics.

Youtube has been a better platform for me to create stuff and to make an even better connection with everyone who follows me but yet.. I recently realized how much I actually miss writing.
I still write for myself, I enjoy journaling on a daily base for about a year now but my fingers are itching to write and share certain things with you.

So hereby, I’m starting a blog again.. yay!

I hope to inspire or motivate you with posts about veganism, conscious living, personal growth and sustainability. I’ll be sharing my own opinions on certain topics as some tips and tricks on how to. And of course, also some yummy recipes as food is a big part of my life!

I hope you’re just as excited as I am about starting a blog again!

Love,

Jelka