Try Something: 5 Small Steps to Start Healing

If you’re feeling like life is an endless to-do list of everyone else’s expectations, and you’d quite like to run away and live in a mossy cottage, same.

You’re not broken, lazy, or doomed. You’re overloaded.

The good news? You don’t need a perfect plan to start feeling a little better.

You just need to try something.

1. Simplify Your Schedule Let’s be real. If your planner looks like a panic attack in bullet point form, it’s time to burn it and start again.

Ask yourself: • What actually matters this week? • Can you delay, delegate, or delete a few things? • Are you doing this because you want to, or because you feel bad saying no?

2. Try a Simple Daily Meditation Meditation isn’t about having a Zen brain or levitating like a monk.

It’s about giving your nervous system a break.

Try this: • Inhale for 4 counts. • Exhale for 4 counts. • Repeat for a minute (even 30 seconds counts).

3. Move Gently, With Intention This isn’t about punishing workouts or guilt-fueled exercise.

It’s about shaking off the stress your body is carrying.

Try: • Walking slowly in nature. • Dancing like a kitchen witch. • Stretching dramatically on your living room floor.

Movement helps your mind process what it can’t figure out.

4. Create Something Messy Stress likes to get stuck inside you. Creativity gives it an exit route.

Scribble. Bake. Paint badly.

You don’t need talent, a plan, or an audience.

You just need to let your hands do something your brain doesn’t control.

5. Practice Gratitude (Softly) Gratitude doesn’t erase pain, but it can soften the edges.

Notice small flickers of light: • A hot cup of tea. • A song that feels like a hug. • The fact you survived the day.

Write them down. Whisper thank you.

It doesn’t have to be fancy. Just real.

No, these five things won’t fix everything.

But they’ll do something.

They’ll create space. They’ll help you breathe. And sometimes, that’s the first crack where the light gets in.

If you’re ready to keep going, you don’t have to figure it all out alone.

Explore my free guide here https://alvivasoul.podia.com/try-something-a-real-guide-to-starting-your-healing

With love (and a healthy dose of sass), Bev x