Keeping one small thing for yourself in the loudest month.
December is not restful for most women. It is a month of doing, and the quiet everyone talks about tends to arrive around January second. So this issue is not about slowing down, which is not on offer. It is about protecting one small thing that is yours, and letting the rest be loud. Gina
You do not need the whole month to be peaceful. You need twenty minutes of it that belong to you.
Not in the studio. The hours that decide whether any of the work counts.
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One minute that undoes a lot. Especially in the month of sitting, driving and carrying.
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An hour on Sunday that makes December survivable. Not meal prep, just a little less deciding.
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Avgolemono. Bright, restorative, and the thing to make when everyone is run down.
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Breakfast for the mornings you are already late. Coffee and real food in one glass.
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Whatever comes first in your day, before anyone can reach you. Not because mornings are magic, but because they are the only hours nobody has claimed yet. By ten the month owns you. Pick something small enough to survive a bad day: a few minutes of movement, your coffee sitting down, one honest breath before the phone. Then defend it like an appointment, because that is what it is. One protected thing beats a beautiful routine you abandon on the fourth.
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December is loud, and it is very easy to disappear inside it. The month gives you a hundred reasons to put yourself last and calls every one of them generous.
But the woman who arrives at January hollowed out has not been generous. She has just been unavailable to herself for another year.
You do not have to fix that this month. You only have to notice you keep choosing it. The Leap begins there, with the noticing.
The Two Doors →That’s it for this month. Don’t forget to catch GLOW Minutes on Instagram, and I’ll see you soon.
Gina
