A Little Quarantine Reminder

Hi everyone, and happy who knows what day into quarantine. Seriously, I lost count. It slightly feels like one of those scenes from the movies where you keep waking up and have to redo your day the right way to finally proceed into the next chapter of your life. I always hated those movies, or really re-watching any movie for that matter besides the Hangover. Those movies get me every time. However, I have come to enjoy my relaxing days doing home workouts, reading new books, lots of homework (finishing early each week it really is a miracle), educating myself on some new topics, learning to cook, and most importantly not losing my sanity and mind. I hope you all are doing well, and I really wanted to write this post to tell you to get the hell off your couch and to take care of yourself! Yes, I said it. Please do not lose yourself during these times.

 I’ve been in a pretty good mindset through-out this epidemic thus far. I have distanced myself from doomsayers, stopped watching the news obsessively, and really just surrounded myself (virtually of course) with people that mean the most to me and bring me up. However, yesterday I had a day I just felt in a funk. The day was the same as every other day in quarantine, but the familiarity of waking up making breakfast, working out, blah blah blah had really started to become well how do I say this……boring. 

I was sitting around with no desire to really do anything and then it hit me. I looked down at ragged feet that are the result of walking ten miles a day during fashion week and I was like this is it. I need to feel like I would normally feel if we were in our “normal” days and weeks of our lives. When we see our friends, family, and well just even go out in normal life we put effort into ourselves. We wash our hair regularly (most of us), do our eyebrows, get manicure and pedicures, straighten our hair, do face masks, shave our legs…. basically we do it all. However, why do we do this for everyone else, when now we need to do it for ourselves more than ever! 

Besides events that are out of our control like well Coronavirus, we control how we make ourselves feel. Our thoughts and mindset put us into the places that we go in our lives. So, we must stay upbeat and we must stay positive and feeling good about ourselves to make it out of this quarantine in a sane state. After I gave myself a mighty long pedicure and manicure (man I really underestimate the work that goes into scrubbing calluses off), blow dried my hair, did my eyebrows, flossed all my teeth twice, applied my serums, shaved my legs, smothered my whole body with lotion, and put on my lovely calming essential oils I felt like a real person again. 

So, the overall point of this post is: it is normal to feel down in a rut and to have a day where you feel totally in the dumps. Especially in these days, but don’t let it get the best of you. Do a nice spruce up for yourself, feel great in your own body, and then go about tackling quarantine days again like a pro. You can do this, I believe in you!

xoxo

BB Jean