thepeacefulgarden:

Spiritual Self-Care Can Look Like…

• Praying or meditating
• Spending time in nature
• Attending worship if you choose
• Deconstructing, and questioning what you’ve been taught
• Letting go of purity culture (that doesn’t mean you have to jump into hookup culture, and it’s not “anything goes.”)
• Absolving yourself of responsibility for other people’s choices
• Forgiving yourself for your mistakes, and giving yourself grace and compassion as you strive to do better and be accountable
• Practicing gratitude, even (especially!) when it’s hard
• Mindfulness and grounding
• Joyful movement
• Resting, and not feeling guilty about resting
• Participating in rituals and celebrations that are meaningful to you (and letting go of ones that aren’t)
• Sitting with your feelings
• Learning to discern intuition from trauma, learning to trust yourself
• Getting in touch with your cultural heritage, learning the things your ancestors knew
• Making art, writing stories, and being creative, just for its own sake. (Even if it’s “not very good,” or wouldn’t make it into an art gallery.)
• Setting up a small altar in your home
• Taking a ritual bath, or even just taking a shower after a rough day
• Reading sacred texts
• Being kind to yourself and others
• Leaving a religious group that does not suit you anymore, or that never did in the first place
• Finding your own path, even if it’s not the one your parents and culture mapped out for you at birth
• Listening to a spirit guide (whatever form they might take in your culture or belief system)
• Letting go of shame
• Starting over
• Letting go of bad habits
• Decluttering
• Getting away from screens, even just for a little while
• Volunteering, doing good deeds
• Slowing down
• Practicing self compassion
• Listening to your conscience (and learning to distinguish it from trauma and insecurities), deciding not to do something that “feels wrong”
• Working through religious trauma and generational trauma
• Letting go of grudges and resentments towards others, practicing forgiveness (not because they deserve it, but because you deserve peace)
• Processing your feelings, sitting with them, and accepting them as valid