We often say we “need to get back into a routine” especially after summer & holidays. But I find that the language we use around “routine” often implies a sense of obligation. The dreaded “daily grind,” and in the same vein, an internal chastising of ourselves for “falling off.”

What if we reframed routine & ritual as the small ways we show up for ourselves everyday? Rhythms that support us in our daily lives, that help to ground us rather than bind us?