One thing everyone can agree on is that it’s hard to find joy in today’s world.<\/p>\n
The cost of health care, food, and everything else keep going up.\u00a0 National and international politics are a shit show.\u00a0 \u00a0The planet is becoming less and less hospitable to human life.\u00a0 The list goes on.<\/p>\n
Yet in spite of all of this, we do have to get through every day and be productive members of society.\u00a0 And this is where self care comes in.\u00a0 And in spite of what you may have heard, self care doesn’t have to be expensive.\u00a0 In fact, it doesn’t have to cost anything at all!\u00a0 Here are 5 completely free things you can do to calm your mind and survive another day on this round rock.<\/p>\n
#1 Take a walk.\u00a0 \u00a0There’s a reason this is the top entry on almost every list like this.\u00a0 It costs nothing and has tremendous physical and mental benefits.\u00a0 If you’d like you can go to a park or someplace especially pretty, but even just a quick walk around the block can turn your entire day around.<\/p>\n
#2 Yoga\/ Stretching.\u00a0 Thanks to YouTube, anyone anywhere can pull up thousands of how-to videos on basic yoga and\/ or stretching in seconds.\u00a0 I’m partial to Yoga with Adriene- especially if you are new to yoga and\/ or flexibility challenged like I am https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/yogawithadriene<\/a><\/p>\n #3 Listen to music.\u00a0 \u00a0Crank up your favorite artist and sing\/ dance\/weep\/etc.\u00a0 Anything that makes you FEEL something will do.<\/p>\n #4 Journaling.\u00a0 It’s been proven over and over again that writing things down helps get those annoying\/ unhelpful\/ harmful thoughts out of your head.\u00a0 I can personally vouch for this one, having been journaling on and off since high school.<\/p>\n #5 Read for pleasure.\u00a0 Unplugging for a while in any way is good for you, but if just clearing your mind by sheer willpower isn’t easy for you (and it isn’t for me), reading is a great way to redirect your mind.\u00a0 I am partial to thrillers and murder mysteries myself, but I am trying to expand my horizons by including biographies and anything with a fun looking cover.\u00a0 \u00a0Your local library has everything you need to escape reality for a while.<\/p>\n Bonus #6 – Taking a bath\/ shower.\u00a0 Yes, most of us do this every day anyway, but you can make it a more pleasurable experience easily enough.\u00a0 Simply staying in the water a little longer or turning up the water a little hotter can take our daily chore to the next level.\u00a0 If you have the option to upgrade your shower with great smelling\/ feeling products all the better!\u00a0 I got an $8 scalp massager that makes washing my hair feel SO GOOD- I highly recommend them!<\/p>\n So, what’s your favorite way to decompress?\u00a0 If yours didn’t make the list, let me know!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing everyone can agree on is that it’s hard to find joy in today’s world. The cost of health care, food, and everything else keep going up.\u00a0 National and international politics are a shit show.\u00a0 \u00a0The planet is becoming less and less hospitable to human life.\u00a0 The list goes on. Yet in spite of all of this, we do… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-its-all-love"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/every-day-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}