10 Days of Self-care Doodling

1. Introduction: Hello, my name is Agnes de Bezenac, and I'm an illustrator and artist living in France. I'm so happy to be here with you today for this course, as we will delve a little bit into self-care with a fun and creative doodle craft project. Self-care means taking care of ourselves so that we can be healthy physically and emotionally. For me, art brings me a sense of peace and calm. Expressing my feelings and emotions through doodles helps to center me, which brings things into perspective. And that's part of self-care. It's similar to the clarity I get through journaling, but it lights me up when I look over my past doodles and see the progress I've made. You don't need to be an artist. Doodles can be messy. Lines going up and down and all over the page. Kind of like life's ups and downs. In this course, I will take you through my little thought process of creating these doodle pages related to self-care. We will only be working through a few aspects of it. But hopefully, after these ten days of doodles, you will be on your way to creating your very own, on any topic that you wish. And I encourage you to personalize these pages for you. You do what is most meaningful for you and fitting to your needs. And on top of it, it will be fun to look back and see your progress over time, where you came from. And also be gently reminded of how you want to continue taking care of yourself through combining art with self-care. I'm really looking forward to seeing you very soon in class. Bye for now. 2. Material needed: I wanted to start by showing a few of the materials that we will need for this course. First of all, you'll need a notebook around A5 size with as many pages as you want. I have a book here with 24 pages. I'm only going to use ten or 12 of them. Don't worry about the cover. That is something that you can personalize and decorate yourself nature. And I suggest to go with white paper just without lines. You have a lot more liberty to do doodle journal as you wish. Next, you will need some markers. I have here some water markers are twin markers, just different colors, lights and darks. Really whatever suits your color style is what you can use. And I of course, will have my trusty pencil or mechanical pencil and an eraser. And there we have it. We're ready to begin. 3. Preparation: Before I get started with this course, I wanted to give you one little question, or maybe a few. Has a little mental preparation exercise to do before we dive in. This won't take long, and this is only if you want to do it. It could possibly be something interesting and enlightening for you to refer back to after the course. If you're ready, you can take your self-care notebook or any other notebook or journal you want to use and write down. It takes some time to answer these questions. Why did I choose to take this course? Now at this time? What am I looking forward to in this course? Lastly, probably the most important question. What does self-care look like are mean to me. After you answer these, you don't have to do anything with them. Just start going through the course and enjoy. But hold onto your answers because you may need them for after the course. Okay, let's get started for real now. 4. Morning Routine: To get started, go ahead and open your first page of your notebook. For this lesson. I'm going to work through our morning routine. You can just go ahead and follow along with me. But of course, be sure to personalize this for yourself because this is The intention of this class of this course. We're taking the time to think, to pause, to reflect on some of the things that we can do to help take better care of ourselves. So this is part of it. I'm going to start just by making a little box on the bottom of my page. I'm going to start out by writing morning routine. The reason I'm doing it here at the bottom is just for something different. I like to break out of the norm sometimes instead of having the title always on the top, I kind of like moving things around a bit. Just choose whatever lettering you lie, cursive or print. And here there's a little space where I will write the date. So we have our whole page totally empty, totally free to just express ourselves in the way that we want. What is my morning routine or what do I love most about my morning routine? Very often when I'm blank, I don't know what to draw. I have a blank paper. I have a blank mind. I just start. The first thing. My morning routine is, well, I get up Often earlier than my husband and I go and prepare myself a cup of coffee. I'm going to just draw little coffee mug, add a little decor to it. The next thing I do is my gratitudes, and I call it sips of gratitudes. The reason is because every time I take a sip, I reflect and I think about all that I'm grateful for. I started this little ritual for myself. Sips of gratitude. I like to incorporate some pictures, some text. I like to fill up every little space. So I'm going to write here the words, coffee. I like, including different types of lettering to it, makes it fun. Let yourself just be creative. Coffee, I'm going to write first. Subset gratitude, this is the most important part of it. Add little sparkles like that. And then sometimes I like to add in some little keywords are feeling words. This brings me a sense of joy. And I'm going to put all my feeling in-between two double lines like this. Next, I like to have a little reading time. I'm going to just doodle, draw out some of the books that I'm going through. During my morning routine. I'm making a little box inside for the title. And actually I'm going through two books right now. So I will go ahead and draw these two books. That's the wonderful thing about dude languages. Not perfection. We're not going for perfection. We're just going what feels right at the moment. I came here, I'm going to make a box for the title and I'll write favor. I'm going through the books. Simple, dense. I'm also reading through the book. Artists sway. For parents, it's encouraging me to think about creative ways I can encourage my kids to use their creativity. One of my best things evolved for my morning routine is my journaling. I'm going to just draw here a little notebook. Making little curved lines like this, makes it look more like a notebook. I'm going to draw some journal lines and append that I like to use. I'm going to add a little few more lines to make it look more like a book. Again, I like to write the way that my journal time makes me feel okay. First of all, I'm going to write journal for the type of lettering. I'm just into just three different ones. What is folded like this or bubble letter, however you call it. The next one is just capital letters and then a simple cursive. Sometimes I go ahead and use verb here. I'm just leaving space for journal. And I'm going to put up here, journaling gives me a feeling of peace, calm, and clarity. I right in my emotions and feelings. Like to add in some of these key words. That reminds me about why I'm doing some of these things for my morning routine. Another thing I like to add in my wishes and goals, start with goals because it's a little smaller. I add in some goals and some wishes. That's the best part of journaling. Because it's totally related to you, totally personalized to me what I need, what I feel. Nobody's judging me. It's just for me. I'm going to make a fun little arrow like this. Like including the all text, all different positions. After I get some peace, calm and clarity and write down wishes, goals and motions that are all my negative feelings. I bring in some positiveness. Usually I get inspired and it gives me guidance in my creative journey. So that's the wonderful thing about it. So I'm going to write guidance and creative journey. It's really been my lifesaver during these times of lows and not knowing what to do with my art, feeling like I lost talent, the neck or the inspiration for it. So as I take time for gratitude, I take time for journaling, express my emotions. I feel peace and calm, and it lights me and guides me in my creative journey, especially in my art. I'm going to write here very often after I take the time for journaling, I get time to do some art, which I call my creative play. So I'm going to add in the word play. Sometimes I get to draw one picture, two pictures. Sometimes I do this for my journal. This is maybe a prompt. My morning routine would be a prompt, and That's my artful play. Here. I'm going to draw pretzel, my favorite bread. Going to draw a little brother. And it'll rainbow. I loved the rainbow colors. I'm going to draw some pencils. Some of my other favorite things to draw, our flowers. I add flowers to most of my drawings and creations. Be another pencil. So don't worry about the little lines here. Right now, we're not even thinking about that. We're just leaving ourselves totally open to this process of doodling, of expressing ourselves, putting up our paper that all the things we love about our morning routine. The best thing about this art is I get to draw for no planned. It's not it's not for any particular project. It's not for any particular person. It's just for fun and play. And that's what I love about it. Most other thing, of course, I take time to get dressed. I'm going to draw and maybe a pretty outfit Did I like to wear? I try to get creative with my dressing up as well. Try not to wear the same things every day. It's that kind of gives me a sense of joy and freedom as well. Just draw here one of your favorite outfits. The stress, it's got polka dots. It's so fresh and comfortable. Long. It's white color. I love, Patron, I love and a texture I love. And it brings me confidence because when I dress up in this outfit, I feel really confident. Again to show that it's a feeling. I just make two little lines like that. Don't have to do that. And if you don't want to, another thing I do in my morning routine is I take time to go over my planner for the day. I'm going to draw my little planner book here. I called it plan her. That's the name of my little planner book. Make it a nice little notebook. That way there is no stress. And I am better organized. Again, that gives me the y of my planner. I'm going to add in here little heart. Because my morning routine, I'm taking time for self-care. I'm noticing how important that is. My life translates to self-love and self-care. Self-care can be a lot of different things. I might put on a special cream for my face. I might take a little extra time to put on some lush make up. All those little things actually helped to make me feel loved and important, confident, and beautiful. I see that as an important part of self-care. Self-love, going to draw a brush, take time to English my hair. One of the things I love is putting this flower in my hair. This flower in my hair. I feel totally ready for the day. All this self-love makes me feel that I am important. That's what lies at the heart of self-care. So as you take time to create your morning routine, paper doodle. Just remember that if you remember that one thing, self-love, self-care, you're taking this time for you. Everything else will fall into place and will feel more balanced in your life. Helps me to feel beautiful because I'm taking the time for myself. The other thing I do every morning as part of my little routine, meditation time, whether it's reflection or just thinking or doing a guided meditation, or praying, whatever you find works for you, whatever fits into your culture or religion, Lifestyle. I will call it. It did you translate it into whatever that would mean for you? I'm going to make little sparkles. It'll raise, maybe add a little hour. From this time. I feel a sense of calm. Feel freedom to be who I am. Most of all, I feel joy. I think the last thing on my morning routine is my breakfast time. What I usually eat for breakfast is a little healthy seed, nut, muffin. Add some little nuts, walnuts. I have a nice big bowl of yogurt where also add some nuts and seeds are dried fruits. This is actually my favorite meal of the day. It gives me energy. I feel energy to get going with my day in my work. This way makes me feel healthy and vibrant. Whenever you feed your body, is how your body will feel in return, it will give back to you just as what you give to it. I think that's what I enjoy so much about my good breakfast, my organization, my meditation, my gratitude time, my journal in time. Think about all the things that you do in the morning. Maybe you only have ten minutes and maybe you don't get to do all this. Some days I get to some of them that I just added, all the ones that I do, whether it's on the weekend or whether it's every other day. All right. So now that we've sketched it together, now that you've personalized your own morning routine, you can go ahead and take your ink pen. And you can go ahead and also choose a set of markers that you would like. I'm not sure yet what color to go with. I'm going to go I'm going to pick two colors. Before I even use my pen. I'm going to decide what parts I want to have some color in. Going to go and start with my brush size side. Since there's two sides to this one, I'm going to go for all the big lettering. I picked blue because it's kind of makes me think about the day. Go ahead and choose whatever color you want. I'm just showing you a little bit what works for me. I'm taking I'm adding some blue a little bit all over my page. Some of the texts, some of the pictures, just outlining it. I don't want to take too much time for this. But I do like to make it fun because I love to refer to it later on. I'm going to use the thinner side now. Then I'll go ahead and take my other pin. Again, starting with the bigger words. You just pick and choose whatever you want to trace over those colors. That's all there is to it. I like to have a little bit of the same color all over my page. Going to write our tier, Maybe energy com. For the rest of it. I'm just going to go ahead and ink it with my black pen. So you just go ahead and trace the rest of your page. You take your time if you need to pause the video, feel free to do that. We'll be ending this video. Just tracing over all the doodles. While you're doing your inking. You realize that it's so meditative, so relaxing. You're not thinking about what next to draw. Just enjoying the process here, reflecting and all those things about your morning routine. Each one that you've taken the time to draw and doodle. Have fun, put on some music. Your favorite song. Make this time for yourself. I find that it's not only so relaxing, it's so good for my brain, even my inspiration levels. I'm able to work better. I'm able to think better and clearer after I've taken the time to just express myself on paper in some way. If as you're doing your, your lines, maybe you want to change things up a bit. Maybe you get another idea, another inspiration, then go with the flow. That's also part of this journey. Maybe it will be a challenge for you to find the time to do this project, this activity. But just think about it as a little gift to yourself. A little treat. To feed your self-care, to feed your creativity, to feed you mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I don't always get to do it at the same time every day. Sometimes I do it in the morning. Sometimes I do it before bed. You don't have to be an artist do this because you can do it in your own way, your own level. Draw or write the way that you want, the way that is personal and meaningful to you. Now that we're done with our inking, we'll go ahead and erase all the lines. You'll notice that you'll have a cleaner look. They won't be all these doodles and scribbles around. Best of all, is that you'll be able to look back on this little book, this little doodle book journal. Look back on it one day. And you'll feel really good. Really good that you took the time to stop and create it. You took the time to do this for yourself. I really like it going back to the ones that I've done previously. It helps as a reminder for me, kind of check-in a little bit, see what I'm doing well in. What do I need to continue to grow in or make progress in? Maybe what do I need to change in my routine? And also it helps me question the whys. Why am I doing it this way? Once you know your wife, you'll be more confident to keep up with it, especially if they're good little habits that you've grown accustomed to. And that really make a difference for your life. If you want to add final little touches, you can go ahead and just add it or patterns or dots to your picture. I hope this was really relaxing for you and meaningful and special, and most of all gave you a chance to think about your self-care for today, For every day. Personally, I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question or just sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 5. Evening Routine: Here's Part two of the self-care doodle course. Today we're going to go through our evening routine. So I welcome you to draw with me to take your empty book and to begin doodling your self-care routines or your self-care rituals and personalize them for just you. I'm going to start off with giving my paper a title. I'm putting it down here for something a little bit different and original. I'm just going to titled it evening routine. And then I close the box when I know that I've enough space to finish writing my word. Then here, you can leave space for the date. I'm gonna start out at the top of my page. This is a time for reflection about you, your self-care, things that you are doing during your evening routine or things that you would like to put in place for now. I'm just going to work with what I'm doing. I think the first part of my self-care evening routine is taking a shower. I'm going to just draw a simple shower head. Of course you personalize it to. What do you do. These are just to give you some helpful ideas. Maybe to give you some inspiration. You can add. The importance. And the reason for this exercise is to think about your little evening routine. I like to draw a little picture. I also like to add the words in some of the keywords. I add in really big texts like this. And sometimes I add in some feelings or emotions here. It helps me feel clean. This is a perfect exercise for relaxation as well as for fun because you get to include some art. You get to be creative to imagine and to include all those things that you enjoy. So I feel clean, I feel refreshed, and I feel content. And I'd like to play around with where I place my text. Next thing I probably do is get into my pajamas. So it's kind of the end of summer heading towards swell. We're in the middle of autumn at this time. I'm getting on some nice cozy PJs. I love my little pattern. Pjs. Then you might like to write the words as well. I like to play around with different types of lettering. Not too many different ones. I stick to three. Probably. He's bolded ones, capitals and curses. I'm just going to write here cozy PJs. They feel soft. Kind of gives me that comfort feeling. Penned, of course, warmth. I might add little lines. To give it more attention. Then I'll probably move on to cleaning my face. I have some beautiful face cleansers that I got as a birthday gift. These have been my favorite at the moment. They look something like this. They're totally natural. So I'm going to add in a pretty leaf. I'm just letting myself be guided by inspiration, by creativity. If you get stuck, if you're not sure what to draw, what I find is that if I just start writing something instead, if you don't know what to draw, you write the word and then usually a picture comes to mind. Face, cleanse, how do I feel? I feel. Touch of beauty. I like to use my little face cloth. Face towel, super soft. I'm going to add the word here. Moisturizing. Maybe I'll put it in a little box like this for fun, for variety. Another thing I do, I love to just sit down with my journal. I'm going to draw here. Sketch out my journal book with my pen or pencil. I haven't ring book. Most of the time I do my journaling in the morning, but I find it so uplifting, encouraging and inspiring to go back to my journal in the evening, whether to finish it, to complete it in some way. I'm going to write here complete or to read over it. Maybe to do some gratitudes from the day. Time for me to reflect and to feel encouraged. Either I have something to celebrate or I have something to look forward to for the next day. I had something to be proud about. Inspired about. It's a beautiful part of my evening routine which I just started doing recently. And it helps remind me about the reflection times that I had about my day. I also feel joy because of it. Then I take a little time. Neither in bed. Also before bed. Either I sit in the living room, on the couch, or in bed. For everybody else. Gets in bed. I take some time to read a book. Some of the books I'm going through. I'd like to write it in the book like this. I added the titles. These are two different books, but I don't have space to draw. 21 book I'm reading right now is called joyful. Then another one is plant paradox. This one is more of a health book, but I find it very interesting and I'm sort of curious about it. I will write here in big bold letters, books, because it's an important part of my evening routine as well. I find that it's not only uplifting, inspiring, loved the joyful book, it just makes me feel happy. It helps inspire me to find more ways to be joyful in my own life. As I look at the world, things around me in a different way, in a new light, even different shapes and different colors. And to realize that all those things actually make a difference, a big difference in our positivity and joyful level. I'm going to also include the word learning here. Because every time I read something I learned something new, I feel that I'm making some progress. I also like to, while I read my book, take time for a little cup of tea. Part of self-care is making sure I get enough liquids in my body. I love little herbal teas, fruit trees, food tease at this time of year. Of course, it's because it's getting cold now. On a hot summer day, I would probably drink something refreshing and cold with little ice in it. Something else I want to add is this goes and ties in with my journaling. But this is an important part of my evening routine or ritual. I'm going to make a little speech bubble to my journals. Because here are some of the questions that I asked myself. So I will write one word appear. I might ask myself, what went well today. Or how did I feel? Thanks. Some of those questions are so important to ask ourselves and it's sometimes those questions that we overlook. I know I do I don't take the time to ask myself those things, but they definitely helped me to feel joy, compassion. Even if there was some frustrating moments, I learned to forgive myself. Realize that it's okay. We all have those days, those ups and downs. Sundays will be good. Some days will be a little more challenging. The good days I celebrate and the challenging ones I realized that they were just stepping stones are they helped me to get to the next step. Looking back and reflecting on my day also helps me feel fulfilled. Like maybe if I haven't accomplished anything big, if I've taken time for my morning routine and my evening routine, I feel that I've done something important and done something good for myself. I think that's at the heart of self-care. Nearing winter. I enjoyed lots of fluffy pillows on my bed. Now also have a heating blanket. So this is a special treat and something I love. I might right here in blankets. What do I love about it? I think it's the warmth, maybe the coziness of it. Lots of pillows. Something else to add to my routine is I take my vitamins before bed. So putting it like this on paper not only reminds me of the things that I need to do, actually, it kind of helps me realize, hey, I'm doing all these things. That's quite amazing when you put it all together. Because maybe you don't really take time to list your evening routine. And to realize that you're doing all those things, that it's part of self-care. The best thing of all what I look forward to most, my evening is our family time. Either we'll watch a movie together. Again. On Friday nights. We have a game night and a special dinner, special dessert. Other knights will watch documentaries or we might just chitchat. Really, this is what keeps us close together. So I'll definitely add lots of hearts to this part. I think that's it. If there's any little blanks, you can either add some extra words. For example, my journal is also my time. For gratitude. I didn't include before. Anything else. If not, you can always add some little stars, little circles. Just anything that you would like to fill up your paper with. And of course, feel free to personalize it to you. This is an example of my evening routine. But the important thing in this project is actually creating it about you. And for you. Now that we have our pencil lines sketch, I'm going to go over it with my black thin point. Or if you want, you can go ahead and use some colors and a marker. Maybe I'll put in a couple of colors. Let's see how it goes. Wherever my text is, big and bolded, I'm going to use a thick pen. Again, feel free to use whatever you have available. Can I use a thinner part for any smaller details are smaller words that I would like to add some color too. You can also go ahead and just leave it totally black and white. I just think it's a little more fun to add some color and that's the whole reason for this project. We're having some fun focusing on our self-care, being loving to ourselves. I also like to add some little patterns or de corps wherever I can. Then I'm going to go with my other color. I'm keeping it very simple, minimalistic because we already have so much going on with our doodles. So I don't add too much color. Here's a nice bright, bold color. I kind of like having a light color and a bold color on my paper. There's not really any rhyme and reason which ones I choose to make a certain color. I think all I'm doing is just kind of evening out the colors across my whole page. Sometimes I even decide to change place. If I see that it will fit better. Now's the perfect time when you're not focusing too much on what you're drawing, what or what to draw. How to draw just to reflect on your evening routine. What's the most special to you about it? What would you change about it? What is something you would add to your evening routine? So all those questions are an important part of our self-care. I encourage you to take some time for yourself to do that. It all right. I kind of like the mix of colors, not too much, not too little. And for the rest, I'm just going to use my black pen and trace over the lines. May take a little time, but again, just think of it. This is time for yourself. This is not time wasted. As you're tracing, you can be reflecting, you can be thinking. If you prefer, you could also listen to something, listening to your favorite music into a favorite podcast. Just to help you get in the mood and seeing the moon of in thinking about what you need. What brings you joy. What good habits do you want to continue to have or to start or to build for your evening routine? I noticed that the times that I take for my evening routine, I'm able to relax more and sleep better. Just taking the time to stop and breathe. Treat myself to this little time. So important for my well-being. As you noticed, I haven't added in there any phone time or social media or emails or Instagram or any of that. I tried to fill up my evening routine with everything else and keep my phone away. During this time. Not only does it help my sleep, but it just helps me to feel more peace, more relaxed, and more centered. If you do have an evening routine or you make yourself one, then you won't feel bored in the evenings wondering like, oh, what do I need to do? What could I get done before bed? I have nothing to do but get online, checkout, social media course, there's a time and a place for that. And sometimes because of our word, maybe that's the only time that you have to check out those things. Stay on top of certain ones that you want to. But then I would just suggest to limited to a certain amount of time or maybe before getting into bed yourself. That way you're building habits. Good habits. That will help you feel good about yourself. And also help you to relax in the evening. For example, if you don't take a shower, maybe you take a bath, draw a bathtub. Maybe you have other special face bottles, face lotions or things that you do. Maybe you all your hair before bed, all those little rituals and routines. Make sure to personalize it to you. This will not only help keep you busy, but you'll also realize that you're doing so much to take care of yourself when maybe you thought you weren't giving yourself anytime. Let this also be an encouragement for you. It was for me when I put it all on paper and say, Wow, I do all this at night. My evening routine. I didn't even think I had a morning and evening routine before until I wrote it all down, then expressed it on paper like this. As a creative, there's something special about mixing text and drawing. If you're here at this class today, then maybe likely you as well. Tell me how it goes for you. I would love to hear or to see some of your examples of your evening routines. Please let me know too, if this was helpful to you. And setting up for yourself this little ritual and building some good habits into your life. Taking time for you, taking time for self-care. I realized that if you're a busy parents, you might not have much time for yourself this way. If that's the case, just know that even five minutes or ten minutes of whatever you do is well-worth the time and effort. So maybe you'd have to wait before your till your kids are in bed themselves are sleeping. You'll probably feel wiped out and tired at the end of a busy day. But don't let that stop you from at least doing a few little things. You're already taking a shower and getting into comfy pajamas, doing your face cleanse. You're probably doing most of these things already. So take time to celebrate that. Maybe you only have time to read one quote. Sometimes that's what I have the time for. My whole family gets into bed and we have our little evening activity together. I've learned to be okay with that. I love every part of it. Every part of my evening routine. If you're a real artist, you might want to delve more into some of the details here. Maybe make a little bit a fancy or add more pictures and less text. Really add in what suits you. And if you're just a beginner at art, well, as you can see, this art is very simple. Anybody can do it. Most of it is just straight lines, some curved lines. I am definitely not lettering person, even though I wish I would be. Shows that anybody can do this project. I like inking. It's because that way it preserves the page. As you notice probably with some pencils are some papers after a few years, starts to erase, starts to diminish and you don't see things as clearly. So that's why I like inking it. I'm not so confident as to just starting with pen, but if you would like to challenge yourself, then please feel free to do that. I'm sure one day I will try to because I love trying new things. And also pushing myself a little bit with my art. You can just trace along with me here. Or if you need more time or maybe less time, then feel free to pause the video or to skip part of it. Please take the time to do it. How you feel would be the most beneficial and the most. Meaningful to you. Just so you don't feel bad. I actually just recently started to check-in with me. See how I'm doing. Ask myself questions, what do I love? What do I enjoy? What is my evening routine? What is self-care? How can I practice self-care in my life, all those things, even just one year ago, not very much in my vocabulary or on my mind. With so many things going on in the world in my life, noticed how much I need it. I need this time for my well-being. Especially asking these types of questions, how did I feel? Such and such make me feel so important? Sometimes it's hard to do because you might not know how to express those feelings or emotions. By putting it on paper, I think is probably one of the best ways. Because it's free, just you don't have to feel that anybody's going to judge, you. Look down on you, criticize you for any of this. This is between you and you. Few except how you are, how you feel. You'll start noticing that others will as well. I've been able to experience that with my confidence, even in my art. Not waiting for others to validate me, confirm an idea or a project for me. Now I feel that if it comes from within, if it comes from me, if it's an idea and inspiration, then I can be free to move ahead with it. Of course, to keep checking in, making sure I'm on track. But then it helps me so much more with my y's. Why am I doing this? Because I feel like it. I wanted, I want to do it. How much better is that thinking or feeling? Because so, and so wants me to do this. Just doing things because of obligation. People pleasing. That's an important part of self-care as well. Realizing that all these things that you're doing is because you want it. It's for your own good. How much more benefit where you get from it if you see things that way. All right, well, we're almost done here. Too smooth it onto my little title. Boy, this was this was a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun. Here's our finished page of our evening routine. I noticed that I made it little spelling mistake, so I'm going to write it out. Just don't copy my mistake. And then you'll be fine. And I went ahead and erase all the pencil lines from underneath the Pen. That way just gives a nice cleaner look. I added even a little bit more color, a little bit of shading, and even with some pencil shading. So I took my mechanical pencil and I just had fun because I had a little extra time. Did a little more shadings behind here just for fun. You don't have to do this part, but if you want to, you can just like how it makes it all come out a little bit more. Texts gives it a little bit more texture, a little bit more depth to my sketches, to my doodles. But because they're just doodles, you really don't have to into that much detail. I had loads of fun making this page and I hope that you did to as much as I did. And I hope that you can continue to grow into new habits. Or realize how many habits, how many self-care things you're doing already with your evening routine? Personally, I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question. Arches sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 6. Free time pleasures: Welcome to our next session of this course. Today we're going to be sketching, doodling, journaling about our free time pleasures. Here comes a fun one. I'm going to go ahead and start making a box for my title right about here on the lower part of my page. I'm not closing it yet so that I can first add in the texts to see how far my text will come. So I'm going to write my little title. As I delve into my self-care, doodling for my free time pleasures. You could call it hobby. Past times, whatever would suit you best. Then I continue to draw box and close it. And here you have a little space to write in the date of when you're doing your little fun self-care journaling, moving on, I'm going to think, reflect, and pause, maybe close my eyes and just think about those free time pleasures that I enjoy the most. I probably won't have space to put them all on this paper. Which one comes to you first take time. It really think about it because this is what's the most meaningful for you, not what you've heard from somebody else, not what I'm going to draw here. So before I even put my pencil on the page, I want you to start drawing, start dueling. What is it that free time pleasure that you just love to do, that you look forward to at the end of the week or at the end of a busy day after work or when their kids are in bed. I can think of mine right away. So I'm going to start by writing it really big. You can start by writing it or by drawing it. You'll notice in some of my doodling, sometimes I start with a picture, sometimes it comes in letters first. That's why just go with the flow. Because that's what needs to come out first. So it's a funny thing that probably my favorite past-time or free time pleasure is drawing. And here I am writing it down in letters, but writing is actually kind of art as well. It's a form of drawing. I loved drawing. Sometimes it comes out as sketching. Just with a pencil. Sometimes it comes out like doodling, which is what I'm doing here. Sometimes. I prefer just coloring, not even drawing, but just coloring. And somehow I just let it all happen and follow with a flow, follow my heart because it knows what it needs at the moment. I'm going to go ahead trucks something now. Be one box there. We're not really planning anything on our paper. We're just it from the top. You could start from the middle if you want and work your way out. Just whatever seems right and comfortable for you. I don't really know what my paper is going to end with here, but that's okay. That's the fun thing about doodling. Doodling basically you just draw almost without thinking. I remember when I was young, I was on the phone and I would just be doodling or sometimes at school, your mind is on a totally different plane. It's thinking as school your studies are at the person that you're talking to on the phone. But somehow my hand would just be doodling. Then I had so much fun during that. By the end of the phone call or the end of class, my whole paper was filled with doodles as I waited. This come from. That's what I think of. When I think of doodles. I'm not even giving too much thought. I think that's very hard actually for artists to do and creatives, because we'd like to have everything planned out. Or I like to have a reason for my art. But I know and I've realized that I really need the time to just do it from the heart, not have anything in mind. If I call it my creative play. Because then I don't have to worry about the results. I just have fun and enjoy the process. That's what kids do when they play. I love drawing animals, cute animals. He can see from some of my other courses, I love drawing flowers. As you can see from other courses. And I love mixing colors. Sometimes just a little bit, sometimes just enough, sometimes lots of colors. I'm going to write here. Creative play. That's how I love to call my art, my Creative Time. Creative play. Some of the key words I like to put in bolded letters. Other times it might not be a keyword, but you'll notice actually, I'm going to fill up a little bit of space up there. Normally, I would just continue it like that, but I wanted to make sure I have enough space to add in all those fun past-time pleasures I have. I don't want to leave too many open spaces on my paper. Often I like to write down how these pleasures make me feel. I feel freedom when I know that. I don't have to have any specific project or result in mind. And definitely I feel happiness. I feel joy. Just another way to say happiness. I guess joy comes from within. I think one reason why I love drawing so much is because it's one way I can express my feelings without feeling any judgment. Something else that I'd love to do is also sort of related to art. You could say, I love decorating my home with beautiful things. I'm just going to make a picture of a flower. Rose. I'm going to put it in a pretty vase. When I have a little time. Since I work from home, I probably get distracted from time to time. Doing some form of the core was space in my home. Lately I've been so into my art, so I haven't done so much of this, but I noticed that depending on what brings me the most joy and inspiration at the time, what I usually fall back on. And I go through different times and seasons getting colder outside. So I think I start looking more at decor of my home rather than spending time outdoors in nature, we end up being home a lot more during the cold winter season. That's when I feel I need an extra touch of beauty in my house. I might switch some pillows around, which some flowers, some colors to fit the season. Maybe I'll add some candles. However, that would translate for you. The things you enjoy doing. Write them down. Draw them with simple little doodles. Decor to me somehow decor means flowers and candles. And how does it make me feel? I feel. Comfort. Brings me peace. When at my home is all organized and tidy. It helps give me your give me more clarity. Not loaded with stuff all over the place. So all these are amazing benefits to getting my place a little bit better organized or decorated. And that's one of my free time pleasures. When other thing I love making. Can you guess what I'm going to draw? See if anybody can guess if anybody has the same. That'll be interesting what past-time pleasures are, because this is not going to be fitting to everybody at all. That's why I encourage you to personalize this for yourself. This I'm just sharing with you some of mine as an example. But I don't want you to draw this exactly like me because this is not you, this is me. That's the most important thing is you need to ask yourself, what is special to you? I'm going to pretend this is a y. And then though it's not exactly how scissors should be if they're open here and closed here. A scissor would be more this way. But I'm just going to add in here. I keep that like that and DIY, fun. Sometimes I do it alone. Sometimes I do it with my daughter. I tried to use things that I have at home, everyday objects or things that I am not using anymore, maybe old boxes and I personalize and give us a gift. Diy projects. Some of my projects I could even draw here. I'm going to paint. My latest projects or inspirations would be my paint box. I have been enjoying painting on rocks. I will include my little rock collection here. Sometimes I draw pictures on it, sometimes I write on it. Of course, DRY projects always need some paper or some sort of fabric. Some pencils, markers, maybe a role of washi tape with a little decoration. Anything that you would like to add up to your picture. And I tried to fill up the spots and have fun. And most of the time, I use DALYs to either decorate my home, to give away as a gift. So I'm going to draw here a little gift box. Find so much joy in creating something that I can give inferior to others. So I really think that's one of my hobbies that I most enjoy. Definitely don't want to forget about that one. I will add a little bow, maybe a little tag. Something fun there to add. Another one. I really enjoy doing. Sometimes, sometimes with my daughter, sometimes we even do this as a family. My husband comes in AS and it's loads of fun. We make it our whole family activity. And that is baking. So either I make pies, at the moment, we have some apples from our trees, so I'm making apple pie. Going to decorate my bowl for fun. Adding some DO wooden spoon in a few ingredients here. So fill up your paper with that. You'd like maybe you prefer savory foods so you could draw something that you enjoy cooking. I really have fun with baking, Whether it's savory or sweet. I love coming up with different inventions. I'm not so good at following recipes because I didn't know for some reason, they don't turn out right when I follow recipe. So that's okay. I go by inspiration instead. None of my cookies will ever be the same. I'm trying to write baking. I love cooking. But I would say cooking is kind of like part of my daily schedule. I need to cook for my family, whereas baking is more the time I want to have fun. And exciting part for me is inventing recipes. I guess that's where most creativity comes in. To me. It feels new and exciting. Some reason I don't like making things. Twice. Diy helped me feel calm. I feel creative. Actually also in baking kind of calms me and relaxes me. I think we all have our little free time pleasures that helps us to relax. I'm going to write that. In all these haunt me to relax. Going to make it in a little box. A little flag helps me to relax. Thank we filled up our page quite well. You can go through your page, look look around it and what else do you feel led to draw over added. I can't think of any other big time, past-time things, but you can add little dots. Little stars would make you happy. And maybe something for fun that would be meaningful to what you've drawn or written. Anyway, I think they filled it up quite well. These are just some of the free time pleasures that I enjoy. I hope that you were able to do this for you, personalize it to you and filled up your whole paper. And don't worry if it's something that is that you don't get to very often, that's okay because whatever you express, whatever you put on paper, whatever you enjoy and you talk about and you wish for and you dream. More of that will come to you. Now that we're done sketching, we can go ahead and ink it. Let's see how it goes. Just feel free to do with what feels good for you at, right at the moment. If you wanted to leave pencil, that's okay too. If you want to add in some watercolor or some color pencil, choose the medium that you're most comfortable with. Maybe that you enjoy the most or that you feel the best at. But also don't be fearful to try something new. Or maybe to challenge yourself a little bit in something that your little more uncomfortable with. I think I want to try once to get to the point where I don't even have to sketch with pencil. That is a little scary for me right now. I'm waiting for the time that I feel I really want to do it. Wanted to challenge myself. This is what I'm trying to do with this self-care ritual, little routine or little project. It. There's nothing in here that you have to do that you feel you must do. You do it because you want to. Because it lights you up. It brings you joy. I think I've spent a lot of my life doing things because I thought other people were expecting it of me. I didn't even take the time to make a little page like this draw or journal just for the fun of it. There wasn't time wasn't going to make money. And I felt it was a waste of time. Now I realize, on the contrary, because by taking the time for me, by taking this time for self-care, doing some of these things that I love to do. I'm so much better equipped in my work and to do things for others. Somehow. Even though I don't understand it. Somehow the inspiration comes, the ideas come. The balance comes from doing the important things. First, feeding yourself With play, with pleasures. Treats that you enjoy. Taking time to dream, to wish. That is so important for not only your mental health, that even your physical health. Since you do the inking, you'll notice that you can think you can listen to something, can reflect on what you're drawing. Maybe you'll feel like changing or adding something on your page and that is okay. Just let it all be, be sensitive to your needs. At the moment. Your wants and desires. Maybe you'll have another idea spark. Like, Oh, I want to add this and that's okay. You just take your pencil, erase it, erase one of these things. If something is more important that you had forgotten before? Usually I feel that whatever I've put on paper at the time, right, I don't have to analyze it so much or question it. Because if I put it on paper without even thinking, means my heart wanted it that way. I know as an artist it's so easy to fall into the trap of perfectionism. Everything to be just right, go just right. That's what I find so relaxing and empowering in these exercises. And that's why I've been doing this for my self-care. Because I realized that putting something down on paper with no plan whatsoever, slotting it, be all of it is okay. And I write everything, I draw, everything I doodle, just trusting the processes. After this part, I like to just give a quick erasing for all my lines, my pencil lines, just to have a clean look. Now this part using markers is also another creative part of the process. I challenge myself with just two colors at a time. I'm going to color inside some of the bolded text. As you know, as we've done with our other pages, I like to mix them colors a little bit all over the place. So I have some on the top. I'm going to put some on the side. I might color in the Apple heart. Sometimes I do the texts. Other times I color in some of the pictures. I'm not going to add color to everything. As you know, I like just some white blank free spaces. That gives us that breathing space. Maybe some scissor handles. I might even do the ribbon. Any markers would work here. I'm going to give them at all pattern to my box. If you wanted to add a little bit more shading, you could do. I could add just little shadings like that on your pictures. Some little lines. I'm sure you can come up with how you want to make it for you. Maybe I'll make my cat's little patterns. That way I'm not always using black. It's what I like about using another color helps things to stand out a little bit better. I need to do my pencil here. Maybe the box of paints. I might even trace over this word to make it a little bit bolder. To add in a little more color. Once you finish your paper, just sit back and enjoy it. Personally, I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question or just sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 7. Favorite Foods: We're going to doodle and journal about foods that we enjoy. I'm going to start again with my title down here. To make a box. I kind of like having the same consistency for each of my pages. The rest varies. The rest I leave up to imagination and creativity, but at least where the title is placed and my date, I keep the same foods I enjoy, like mixing up my text a little bit with print and some cursive. Then I'll close the box wherever I see that my text has ended. You can go ahead and write your date right here. I might even add a little def my owes to make it a food. The things that I reflect on that I might think about is I do this page. What am I favorite foods or what foods make me feel really good. I think the foods I enjoy the most are the ones that make me feel good. I'm going to start off with that. I might just turn my page here, right? Just fact, what makes me feel good? What makes me feel great? Since I kind of like one to fill up this whole spot here. If you do what you like, you personalize it to you, that will almost probably give you enough to doodle on your whole page. But I'm going to have fun. I might draw me as best as I can. You can make just a stick figure if you prefer. Don't worry about making it too fancy. I'm just enjoying this process. I love challenging myself with little faces, especially drawing myself, which is not something I do very often. I'm going to draw just part of my body because the part that makes me feel good is probably my eyes looking at the yummy food in my mouth, tasting the yummy food, my nose smelling the yummy food. I might even add a little tongue. How are those taste buds? I'll draw the rest of my hair, something like that. And I'm not going to draw the whole body. I might just draw the top because next I probably feel good food in my tummy. That's where all the food gets digested. So my time, he's feeling good. If I'm eating good food include I think if my tongue, he says So then the rest of my body agrees as well. Just place my arms there, maybe drop a little bit of pants. I feel good here. You know what, I just realized? I totally spaced out. I think my mind was working faster than my hand here. Maybe you had noticed already. I'm going to start here. I skipped a whole word. It's okay if there's a mistake, but thankfully I caught it when it was still with pencil. What makes I forgot the word makes. What makes me. I think the foods I enjoy is what makes me feel good. Here I'll write good because it's a little shorter than great. Measure it out like this first before I put in the details. Then how would it make me feel good? I can add maybe good digestion. And ask yourself, how does it make you feel good? Another thing for me is, I noticed when I eat the right foods, I don't have any acne. I think we're all different, but it all plays an important part. No acne for me is a big thing too, because then I feel more confident about myself. I don't really feel good and body I feel good about my face, I feel good about my looks. More beautiful. In other way, I feel energized as you do your page. So really take the time to ask yourself, how does it make you feel? I think that's a very important step and sometimes something, very often actually something that we miss out on. Also, eating the right foods makes me feel good. It makes me feel energized. And I seem to have more clarity that a lot of things and also know migraines. I'm very sensitive. I guess my gut is very sensitive, so it affects me in those ways. I feel weak or I feel sluggish or I get migraines. So it makes a big difference. Maybe some of you are not as sensitive, but that's why foods is a big deal for me. Now, I might start drawing some of my favorite foods. Some of those foods that help me feel great. Ladies, that I've just started eating actually is sweet potato. I used to eat lots of potato, but I've kind of moved onto sweet potato. And I realized how much I enjoy it. I guess I would put this in the carbohydrate. Family. Carbohydrates. I'm not sure if that's correct. Forgive my spelling or lack thereof. I'm sorry. I'm French after all. Another thing, I've been eating lots of lady. I probably have them every day in my saddened. And I have lots of good olive oil, not a bottle of wine. Wine can be healthy too, don't worry. This is olive oil onto this right, in oil. This would be considered good fats. I might not see the results in eating this right away. Good carbohydrates, good fats that I enjoy the taste. One of my very favorite vegetables is can you guess? Mercado? Again, lots of good, healthy fats there. So I'm going to make one in the back and when in the front. You probably don't want to draw all the same vegetables are same foods as I am here. This is really about you, but I'm just giving you some examples. I'm not going to make them up, so I'm just sharing with you some of my top foods that I enjoy. Kind of like my thinking process as I go along, which is skinned really part of self-care. You're asking yourself, what is it you enjoy? What is it that makes you feel good? And then we're taking it further and doodling it, drawing it out. I'm going to make little shade a little bit. This is fun part. Just what I feel that to-do lead to draw. Having fun with. It looks a little bit more like an avocado. And I'm going to write this one really be because this is a big one part of my diet. It is one of my favorite ones. I might write down some of the ways I eat it. I eat it as a dip with some crackers. I eat it as a dessert. I loved to experiment with some of these healthy foods. I eat it. Tacos in a salad. I just loved to experiment. I might write. Creamy. Can ask yourself, why do you like it? Why do I like it? It's creamy and it's yummy. Some reason I just loved the consistency, the texture, and the taste too. Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy. Actually, I've space there. So dig deeper. Remember, ask yourself for why you enjoy it, how does it make you feel? All those things are things that you can add to your doodles. Another thing I've been enjoying lately are some muffins. So I've been experimenting with trying out no grains diet because I've had some issues with my digestion, with my gut. So I've been coming up with doing some research, finding flowers that don't contain grains, that contain seeds. I'm going to write muffins. Actually, that's my, one of my staple foods. I make sweet muffins for breakfast, and I make some savory ones for lunch or dinner. And that has been a treat. I also make tortillas, cookies. I still have to enjoy all those those delicious foods. I would consider them comfort foods too. These are my treats or tortillas. Maybe they take a little longer to prepare to rollout. One of my favorites being French, you might guess, is cheese. Yogurt. I'm drawing a little yogurt with a spoon. So that's my breakfast usually is a muffin. The yogurt. Cheeses I eat have been sheep cheese, blue cheese, goat cheese. Right here, cheese, yogurt. I will just write goat slash sheep. What else have I been enjoying? Seeds. Another one of my staples. I add it to my salad, I add it to my muffins. I've been eating. Some Brazil nuts, almonds, some hazelnuts. These have been my favorites. And I think my very favorite is pistachios. Draw some little seeds, some Chia seeds, sesame seeds. I will write nuts. This is one of my protein sources. Seeds and nuts. I love a good piece. Salman. This is one of my favorites. Mushrooms, salmon, it shoots off and I eat them together. I'm not going to forget berries. I'm only drawing some of my favorite foods. I couldn't put it all down here. Fit it all. I mean, anyway, you probably get the idea now. If you ask yourself, what makes you feel good? How does it make you feel? What are your favorites? What are some of those comfort foods? What are special treats? Once you've done that, you can go ahead and trace or you can use your markers if you prefer to start with that and add a little bit of color. I might add a little bit to my titles. Again, as we've done before. You know that I like to add some color to my bolded titles because there's one reason why I made them bold in the first place. Nuts as well. I wonder how well-versed is my diet. If I just think about what's here, I didn't think about that before, but I think that's something important after you do your page is to reflect on it and think about it as well. Because you'll probably learn a lot more. Maybe you won't be thinking about how you drew it, what you drew, but more like, why did you draw them? I'm going to add a little bit of green. You can always go ahead and do some of your pictures if you want to add in a little bit color, especially those that are green, if it's appropriate. What makes me feel good? So again, with the coloring, I like to add a little bit of both colors kind of scattered around my page. I wanted a little bit of green down here, even though my berries will not be green. I chose green first place because I thought that foods there was quite a lot of natural foods that are green, but I ended up not even drawing any. Besides the avocado. Maybe I will add in, so don't, don't, don't feel bad to add in something afterwards. I might add in salad leaf here. Or cabbage has been one of my favorites too. And then I can add a little bit more green that if I want. Another one of my favorites, It's Broccoli. See if I could draw broccoli here, maybe broker the plant head. I'll erase the pencil underneath it. That way I have a little bit more green to work with. It's not so much the colors, but it's also for the food because I love broccoli. We eat a lot of it in our family because it's one of my son's favorite vegetables too. I could cut these little apples. I could write over the word clarity. Such a weird thing, but how food has such an effect on your mood, your brain. I've heard that your gut is like your second brain. No wonder it makes sense that I have been feeling more clarity and more focus as I've been eating the right foods that my body needs. Maybe color in the rows. Trace over the rows just for a little bit of orange in color to the girl. Alright, now that you're done with your markers, you can go ahead and do the inking. Just going to start from the left, top, left. Follow the lines that you want. Garcia is a lot of sketch lines. So I might not follow them all to T. Again. And see what is right for you. What's your happiest with which you're most comfortable if you're drawing. And remember to do this in your own style. You could do a stick figure doodle. You could make a realistic, fancy girl here. It's really for you to work at your skill level. That's the wonderful thing about this project. It's where your self-care, it's for you after all. So go with what feels right for you at the time. I consider this part of my self-care. That's what I want to encourage you with today. Most of all. I thinking about the things that make you feel good and body will help light you up. In return will help you bring joy and cheer to someone else. So it's so important that you feel good in your body emotionally. So that's why I've included this one. Foods I enjoy. Because if I enjoy my food, whatever you put into your body is what you'll get out of it. What I feed my body would I put into it is what I become. So I've worked very hard lately to figure out what works for me, what foods, what diets in the time of the day I should eat. And paying attention to each of those things is really a part of self-care. Sometimes I don't even know how to express it, but I feel, I feel happy, I feel inspired. I feel that I've really taken the time for me to be me fully. This one is a great way to also maybe be a little reminder to you. I know it is for me. Little reminder of what I know works well for me in my diet to be encouraged to stick it. Of course, I let myself have those special treats once in awhile that are Arabi not so healthy, but that's part of enjoying life as well. But if I know that like the rest of the week, the whole week, I've taken care of myself. I've eaten the right foods, then I let myself I treat myself to something special on the weekend. I find that going extreme in one way or the other is not healthy and not good either. Because I've been there, I've done that as well. Either I didn't feel good about myself. I just felt that I was missing out on all the yummy stuff because it didn't make me feel good emotionally. It actually didn't really help me physically either. I've let loose a little bit and I'm told myself I'm going to enjoy some of these foods. I'm born to find healthy alternatives. That's another wonderful thing about taking care of your eating your diet, paying attention to that. Paying attention to your body because you just have to figure out what foods sit well with you. For example, no gluten is just a recent thing that I've been trying out to see if it helps with my migraines or my digestion or my acne. And so far it's been working. Same with no lectins. I'm super grateful for that. I'm going to stick with it for as long as I feel good. I don't feel like I'm missing out on stuff because I still get some of my favorite foods. All right, We're nearly done just adding our little title box here. I think that's it for our inking. Not going to go ahead and just erase all my pencil. Of course, see what you have the time for. If you just have time to sketch it with pencil. Well, that's a good step already and I really encourage you to stick with that. Maybe you don't have time to ink it as well. That could always come at a later date as well. Don't feel like you have to do everything at once seating because you don't want to, if I had any stress or pressure, would be counterproductive because this is supposed to be fun, relaxing time. If you want, after you can go ahead and add a little bit of shading with your pencil, or even just the colored pencil. I could go ahead and pick the same green and orange and add a little bit of shading for fun. I'm happy with the end result. I hope that you are too with yours. Personally. I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expression. It's if you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question, which is sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 8. Outfits: We will today be taking a new page of our book, which we've already started in the last few classes. You will need your pencil, eraser and pen. For today. We're going to go ahead as before and start our little box for our next title. So like before, we're not going all the way to the end and closing the box yet until we finished writing our text. This one is called favorite outfits. This is a special girly one. Of course. I've recently just realize that thinking about my clothes and my outfits is a big part of self-care. Here we will leave space for the date, the day, the month, and the year. Now we're ready to reflect and to think about our feelings, our emotions. What makes us happy, what feels good, what feels right for us regarding our outfits and our clothes and our wardrobe. So just take a moment as much time as you need to stop and think. Maybe you have something that comes to mind right away. Either way, just begin sketching, doodling on your page. I'm going to draw the first outfits that comes to mind. For me. It's for comfort. It's for looks, the color. I'm going to draw the stress that I got myself not too long ago. Got long sleeves, kind of puffy sleeves. Goes in towards the ends of the arms and have coffee here. And I love to wear it. A big beige belt. As you draw, you can think about also what fits nice with your style, what matches your style? I like to think about what makes me feel confident. Not just the look or the style, but what actually makes me feel really good. It's like my go-to outfit. It's got little black polka dots all over it. So I'm going to be sure to draw those details because it's something, again that I love. I love polka dots. In reflecting on that, thinking about it, wishing are dreaming. You're actually finding things out that maybe you never noticed before. We won't know until we take the time to ask them ourselves. That's what I love about this little ritual of this little exercise. I didn't know that before about myself. How much I love polka dots. I loved the color white and black together. So I'm going to start also kind of writing or doodling. Lately I've been more into long dresses and skirts. I'm just going to write long dress. I don't know if it comes with age or I don't know, but I've just much more calm, comfortable in long skirts, long dresses. I also realized that I like thick belts, so I'm going to write that down too. You can write it however you wish. Whatever size, font, or anywhere on your page. Also, what I really like wearing with it is a little black vest. I'm going to go ahead and draw that as well. This is probably my go-to. It'll third piece. I like styling my things with in three pieces of clothing, either pants or a shirt. Then either an extra belt or little vest. So again, this one has puffy sleeves. So there again, I'm noticing in my wardrobe because of what I have and what I usually go to. I like the puffy sleeves. So I might write a color like a black fast because it matches with a lot of items in my closet. Black vest. I'm going to write maybe puffy sleeves because already the two things I've drawn have puffy sleeves. So there's a little pattern I'm seeing for myself. Then it's even great idea when you go shopping to kind of remind yourself about your favorite outfits. Because then you won't just shop and buy new outfit or a piece of outfit that doesn't fit with the rest of your 4D world or with something that's not you. That's been really interesting for me. To ask myself, what is it about this item that I love? My to also write the color here, white, the color of the dress, but it's also the color of many items, many things in my closet that I go to, the white shirt, even though waitlist white t-shirts, something that's fairly new is Hats. I'm going to include that in. I always wear hats in winter, but that was the only season I would wear hats. And my husband was getting rid of a few of his his hats and he asked me if I wanted to try them. I tried them on and actually I loved them. And he said they suited me perf agree. So I ended up keeping them and now I'm wearing them. It's the season of autumn, so it's perfect. It's not too hot, not too cold for these sort of hex. So I have a couple that I'm really happy for that. Just those little fun edition, So I think can make a really nice different BD, so much fun, something I'm really enjoying at the moment, or the VNet. Just plain colored t-shirts sets match with so many things. But I loved the Phoenix for some reason. Then I can add a little jewelry on top. If I will write maybe the next. Let me get the divvy up here. I like it in my shirt, t-shirts and also in my dresses or, or even sweaters. Something, again, that my usual gotos are pants with a high waist. Whether there'll be genes or trousers or other pants. I really like the high waist. In this way. High wasted. It's got a little curve, but that's okay. This is more like a pair of jeans. I might include another pair of pants. Again, I like like the highways depends. Also liked more loose fitting pants. Lose maybe even a little bit wide legged kind of trousers, a little bit more dressed. See, I love that. I can either add a belt to wear them either with Taney's or with our width little booties. I'm not going to forget to draw my little white. Instead I wear with everything. Again, don't worry about the art if it's not coming out exactly the way your outfits Look. Mine hurt probably really far from that. I'm just enjoying. I'm just enjoying thinking about it. It's so relaxing. I asked myself as I'm drawing, what do I love about them? I think my thing that I love most about these is that they go with everything they can go with address is skirt, pants, even dress. The clothes are just the convenience of them. I can even go ahead and write that. Or comforts. Can even put it in a box for something different. Here I'm going to write wide because that's what makes these special. I can even make a little arrow wide legged and others thing lately that I've been playing around with these different bags and almost matching my bags with my outfits. I don't have many handbags, but I just I'm letting myself play with the ones that I do have rather than always using the same one. I'm going to draw one of my favorites is that little black bag. Very simple shape. It has a nice big button and it's kind of with different diamond shape. It's not a brand name or anything. And it has a little chain, black and gold. I love how it's styles and fits nicely with the rest of my clothes and outfits, whether it's casual, I can wear it with a pair of jeans. I can wear it with a pair of slacks, white, sure to middle vast dresses up my outfit like the chain. So I'm going to write that. I like that it's small because I'm small, so I'm not going to wear something huge and bake. Another little thing is I have been into little necklaces, very simple, minimalistic ones. I could write here, maybe neck, this little arrow for fun. I'm going to add here maybe a little belt. I like wearing belts with almost everything. Maybe I could end the belt here. Sometimes they'll have a pattern, sometimes just playing, I love wearing browns. I'm going to fill up the space with the rest of things that I enjoy that suit me that are comfortable. I also liked the color red legally. People say that it looks really good on me. I'm writing it quite big, but I just want to fill up some of the space here. I love wearing scarves with my hat's too. I love yellows. It's just a color that makes me happy. I think I'd wear it no matter what season. I have a yellow shirt for the summer. I haven't middle yellow vest. I have a yellow card again. And wearing it always makes me feel really joyful and cheery. I didn't get to draw my other shoes. I already like little booties pointy. With a medium, he'll be out, just draw it like this. With a pointy TO and a little heel. These are my favorite shoes in winter and autumn. It's a perfect, they're not even, even 20. All right, I think that's about it. Anyway. Just let yourself imagine dream. Think about all the ways that you'd like to style your clothes. What clothes you'd like to style? What makes you express yourself with your clothes? What makes you feel happy, positive? What helps you feel really confident in your outfits? So I think that's my go-to outfits is the ones that I feel really good and confident. Now that you've finished sketching, you can take your pen and start thinking. Again, this process is calming, soothing, also very relaxing. Also gives you even more time to think and reflect on those things that you love. Very important part of self-care. Just remember to add those extra special little details that makes it special and meaningful for you. Just because something is in trend or install right now might not mean that it's always something that you love or have love and enjoyed wearing. Some of the ways that I have noticed. Things that I feel really good in is when it's not just fashion. Because fashions comes and goes so, so fast. My wardrobe usually I keep it for many, many years. I realized that the clothes that come and go or not really my favorites, I'm sure I left out a lot of things, but I was just trying to think. Okay. When I go to my closet, what is it that I look for first or if I know that I'm going to go out and I don't have much time to get dressed. What is the outfit that I wear the most or that I enjoy wearing? And I realize that it's either it's address or its genes and nice pair of jeans and either a red shirt that brings out a little bit of color or a white t-shirt and nice spice it up with a fist or a belt. I always feel good in that. It doesn't take so much planning or effort toward trying it on taking it off again. Take as much time as you need to or as little time as you need to. Feel free to pause the video if you need more time or just go at your own pace, you might draw very different things than me and that's what I want you to do. I want you to dig in deep, deep, ask yourself those questions to help personalize it for just you. Some of the other pages that we worked on, we we wrote some of our feelings or emotions related to either the foods are the things we'd love, things we're grateful for all that. This one, I guess it shows you another aspect of it. You don't always have to include that it's really what you feel is right for you at the moment. I knew that my favorite outfits just make me feel good and confident. Those are the top of my list exist. Of course I understand us women. One day we might feel good in one outfit and the next day a totally doesn't sit right with us, fit right on us. And that's because we're loaded with hormones and other things that really makes a difference one day to the next. That's part of how we are, how we are created, how we're made. Once I understood that, I accepted the fact that okay, today is not what I'm going to wear even though yesterday I felt amazing in it. And I've been playing around lately with my wardrobe for two reasons. One is that I think I have too many clothes. I don't wear a lot of the clothes that I have in my cupboard. I wanted to share some, either it gives them to my daughter or somebody else who needs bringing them to a secondhand store. But before I do that, I'm making a point to just where everything at least one day, I'm going through my wardrobe. One outfit at a time or one shirt I paired up with a pair of pants or skirt. And if I don't feel really, really good, if I put it aside, I put it in a bag. I always have a bag in my room, an extra bag for those things. And after a few months, like after the season, I go through that bag again. I asked myself why I didn't feel good in it. I try it on again. Maybe I tried to pair it with another outfits. And if it still doesn't sit right with me or make me feel really good and comfortable, rather uncomfortable or good about myself, then I know that it's time to dispose of it and give it away. But I've found that to be very helpful for me. And that's why Lilia aware or something one day and the next day, I wear something different. So it gives me time to try everything that I own and see if I like it. I want to pass it on and move it on, make space for something new. Another little ritual that I have is every time I get something new, I give something away. Otherwise, my cupboard my closet would be a little bit too full. It fits perfectly right now I have the right amount of hangers that fit nicely into my space. But if once they get too full, then I know I have to let go of something. I always feel good Letting go something it because I know that I've made room for something even better. Remember to add those little details that are special to you. Whether it's a shape or pattern or color that you love. Because you'll notice that it's not only with one item of clothing or one ITIL in your wardrobe. You'll kind of see it in different ways, in different objects. So chains, I kind of like it. I like it as jewelry. I like it is I even like it as a belt. That's why I wrote chain. Then it will help give you an idea. Next time you go shopping. Kind of like your go-to list. With these pages. What's really fun is to actually go through them. Occasionally. Remind yourself of them, see how you've changed or grown. And it's not that it was that it was bad, but it's just you change. It's all good. When you feel like drawing something, go ahead and draw it. When you feel like writing it. You can write it. What I love about these, it'll attendees is that they're so pretty and feminine. Maybe they don't even have a little thing like that. They're not sporty, which is the reason I can actually wear them with so many outfits. I loved that they're just plain and simple minded, not even have this front part that will match it. I'm going to just end here with my title box. This was so much fun. Clothing shops are some of my favorite, so that means closer also one of my favorite things. I think some of you could probably really get into this one. You wanted to draw more outfits. And you could just draw everything a little bit smaller or get yourself a beaker page. Alright, now we can go ahead and erase. All right, moving on, we can add some little bit of further. I have here some markers. If you have a little scrap paper, you can go ahead and try them. Here's a pink. And this as I know, is it purple but not sure? It's a dark purple. These are not really my go-to colors. You could also go through your markers, see what else you have. Put them by sets because I like to put two colors for my papers here. So I'm going to try some, another set and see if these work better for me, for my outfits, I do like red and I do like brown. So this is definitely an option for me. Alright, I'll put these side. We can start adding a little bit of color. I'm not going to cover everything. I'm just going to add a little bit. So I'm going to first of all add my little polka dots. Instead of using the pen, I'm going to add with the marker color, shading for my handbag. Go ahead and color everything and it would be a little bit too dark. So I'm adding a few little strokes like that. The shoes. Maybe the genes could be a darker pair of jeans. I tried to put a little bit of color all around the page. I'm going to frighten sum up. I'm going to use this thicker. So what's nice about these spans as they have two sides when it's a bit thicker, can use it for the thicker writing that I don't have to make so many strokes. Definitely want to put it for the color. Maybe the VI. Even though my shoes are not red, I'm just going to have some fun here. Adding some color. Also. Go ahead and use colored pencils or paint. Another form of coloring. Don't feel that you have to stick with just markers. This is what I brush for this class. But if you want to add a little bit of shading with a pencil, I love that too. I can even go ahead and do that. Now I still have my pen, pencil here. If I wanted to add more shading, certain parts, my pictures, some little crease, wrinkles in the dress to make it look more realistic. This is also kind of the fun play. Another thing that's really fun in this exercises. You can also, even if it's something that you don't own, you can still put it in, include. It because maybe it's a wish, it's something that you would really like. I do encourage you to add it to your page. Sometimes we think about what we dream about, actually putting it down on paper, expressing it in some way, even just to ourselves helps it to become a reality. So don't be afraid of that. For the longest time I made myself a list for my clothes. I had a few needs at the time and I made sure to write it down. I lost my list of few times, so I wrote it down again. In looking back on the list, I think I have most things I'm missing, maybe a couple of things, but it took a while. I took like a year to get all those things. But having it on paper, focusing on those things that I really wanted and needed. Also not getting distracted with other things. I think that's what really helped having it on, just having it on paper taught me not to go into the fast fashion side of things because I knew what I needed and I went to I wanted to make sure that I had the money I needed to get those things first. Even though it's so easy to get distracted and easily swayed by what looks great in the shop windows or on other people, on social media and all that. But I've learned that I need to really check in with myself. Most of all, what looks good on me, what fits me? What is me, not just what is great on somebody else. I think that's what I've noticed to be my biggest lesson in my wardrobe and clothing. All right, Well, I think we're done. I hope you enjoyed this little session. Favorite outfits and that it was meaningful and a value to you in some way. Personally, I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question or just sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 9. Aha moments: Welcome to the next part of our class on self-care doodling. So prepare your pencil and eraser, and let's begin. We have our book. I like to fold mine to the side so that I don't see the back of the previous one. That way, I just have a clean empty space, a clean empty page to start with. And it just helps me for more peace, more clarity in what I want to add to my page for today, Today's topic is hot moments. Let's begin with our title box down here. I don't know if you've heard of this before. Aha moments, I think it's becoming more on trend or something more used in our vocabulary lately. At least I've heard it a lot more recently than before. Or HA means kind of like, I get it. I see. Now I understand. It's a little short word for all those things. The way I like to see it as maybe something that I've recently noticed or learned about myself. Something that keeps me in check, something that I love, that I didn't pay in two before, maybe something that I've learned. There's something I want to pay attention to. But anyway, so today, our journal prompt, our doodle prompt for self-care is a hard moments. Because I think if we can express that either in words or in pictures or some way, get it out on paper. It will be so much more meaningful for us and also help us to listen to our hearts and to pay attention to those aha moments. Like a gratitude. If you start the habit of finding more things that bring you joy, then those things will bring you even more joy. And you'll find that the list, it will be in this just because you began this ritual, this little habit of finding the positives in your life. So it's kind of like this with the aha moments, at least for me. And what I've experienced. And this is something that I love to do. I have a little journal book just for my aha moments because I'd like to refer back to them. It's a special little memory and it's good reminders for me as well. Anyway, let's get started. I will personalize it for me and my aha moments as of late. But just remember as we go along this, this is for you to personalize it for you and your situation. So please doodle your own aha moments. Even as I show you how I go ahead and do mine, you can either just watch it through and then do it yourself or you can watch it through and do it for yourself at the same time, but using your personalized words and pictures. One of the big ones that I can think of right away is related to my confidence, self-confidence because that's an area that I fall short in many times. I'm writing this one really nice, big and bolded. I haven't really planned out my paper yet, so I'm hoping that everything will fit on, but this is the fun part of it. You start with what comes right into your mind after a little thought, reflection and whatever comes first, you know, that it's what needed to come first at the time. If you get to the end, he's like, Oh no, I didn't fill up my page. I wanted to add this and that and there was no space for it then let that be okay. You can always go ahead and do a second page if you want to, or maybe this was what you needed to know at the time, needed to remember at the time. I'm going to write here the smaller words. One big aha moment for me lately is realizing that confidence comes from within. I think this is one of the biggest things for me lately within me. Meaning that I don't have to look to the right, to the left or to look for others. Wait for others to validate me or my work, what I do, or in the decisions that I make. I just need to look within and see what my heart wants me to do. And I've found that so amazingly works for building my confidence. I'm going to maybe add something like that. Maybe in a little speech bubble. Just trying to put that into, into some sort of sentence. So that's been a huge aha moment and changing point in my life and in my creativity. Because even just a year ago, I know that I was always waiting for others opinions, confirmation of what I should work on my next project, my next book, my next thing. But I realized that it never brought me the same amount of joy and satisfaction and fulfillment as if I I decided I checked within to see what needed to come out. What was my heart telling me that I wanted to do? Another big one is, I don't have to wait. I'm gonna write this big word, bolded. I kind of like, right? Keywords, big or a different font. But I still keep it very simple, minimalistic. I do like adding a little bit of art as well. So I might, I might draw two clocks. An old-fashioned clock here. Maybe I'll do it at all. Mural clot. Again just to illustrate the word weight. Little decor if I want. I don't have to wait. Quite to make this next part into a box, right? For inspiration. I'm gonna make it maybe I can edit all Banner ribbon. This is a big, another big aha moment. So I don't have to wait for inspiration to create. I create. I'm going to add some pencils, pens, all those fun things I create with scissors. Maybe. I like to add in a little bit of art. I might add a little arrow. It'll add the fun stuff, the fun designs. I think you can be really creative with your pictures and your doodles. I don't wait for inspiration to create. I create. Then. I feel joy. This will be another little painted inspiration. Little paintbrush, paint palette. Maybe branches of paint, paint brush here. Those fun things that I love to doodle, I create, then I feel joy, inspiration. I tried creative ideas. But this is something I've learned because if I wait for inspiration, then it usually doesn't come, but inspiration comes as I do. It has been a big revelation to meet ID and it's helped me to even create more fun stuff and have so much enjoyment and clay. I'm gonna draw me, try to at least I'm just drawing me happy. Just peaceful. Reflecting as I'm doing now. I don't really know how to draw myself. I think I can draw other people better usually. It doesn't have to be perfect. It's just for fun. You can even draw stick figures and that's what's nice about this activity. Actually. It's for any age, any level of art that you're at. You can do this because it's expressing yourself. If you can't draw a face, you can draw a shape, you can draw a circle. You can draw in any way. So this is another part of my moment. I'm going to draw a heart here. I'm going to write. When I take time for self care. I take time for self-care. To me, self-care equals. So she's thinking, she's reflecting, she's meditating, she's calm, she's at peace. She's happy. So really to me, that's the biggest part of self-care. When I take time for self-care, which means self-love. Another little arrow. Maybe I'll make this little box fully present. It's better payable. That's an important word. So I'll make it bigger to care for. I'm going to make it a big number four, for fun. Take time for self-care, which equals self-love. I'm more fully present and better able to take to care for others. That's been a big, big aha moment because I used to think that self-care was selfish, was thinking about myself. I felt guilty. I just didn't understand why I needed it. Fine to put us in another little box. But recently when I've been taking this time for me, I realized that I'm so much more balanced in my life, which actually gives more and more peace, calm, and time to take care of others. I'm not always feeling so rushed and nervous and uptight and stressed out. And I'm feeding so much happier, which in turn makes my family happier. Let me see. I don't want to write a big word here. Focusing. You notice I'm not even using a ruler because it's okay if things aren't perfectly straight. Focusing on, you can always fix it up either with your ink pen after or just is make it intentional like here. My OH, is up in the air and so is my you make an intentional it doesn't have to be perfect. I think it kind of has its own charm. Focus on the things. Another big aha moment. I'm going to maybe make a little bag. I'm focusing on the things I love. Maybe I'm going to add all these little hearts. I love shopping, I love new clothes. I didn't use to treat myself to very often before. I thought it was I didn't need it. I tried to learn to live without it, but I realized that make leaving myself open to those treats and those things I love actually opens myself to more of those things in my life. So I'm trying to bite that focusing on the things I love. Greens, I'll write brings in the bag. More. Again, bolded word. Kind of go back and forth between cursive script. Just bolded or bubble letters just for variety a little bit all over. Focusing on the things I didn't love brings more of those things. Maybe a little arrow going into something. Great to make it all. Be a little gift box. Brings more of those things into. I will label the box by life. I've realized that paying attention to those things, expressing those things, even doing this journal self-care doodle book. I benefit from so many more things in my life. I don't know if it's because I'm more attentive to those things now that they're coming to me. It is all the good things that are love. I can fill this up with loads of hearts. Two, these are overflowing. Focusing on the things I love. Brings more of those things into my life. One last one, can I fit it in? I'm trying to make space for it. Creative play. What would you consider creative play? I think for all of us, it's different. Some loved to dance. Summed up to write, some love to make music or seeing my creative play is my art. So that's what I'm thinking of when I put here creative play is my greatest passion. I just made it here. Add some more Hearts. Wow, what a full-page. We have lots of aha moments in our lives. Because when you start thinking about it, being attentive to it, you'll be like me. You will not want to end your page. I could probably continue on another page anyway. This was loads of fun and I hope that it was meaningful to you as well. Whether it was something related to self-love, self-care, or whatever your heart is telling you. Now that we've finished our pencil lines, you can go ahead and use your ink pen. You can also use some markers if you want to do that. First, I'm going to just for variety, I'm going to start with a marker and start just coloring or tracing over some of the things that I want to add a little bit of color to. Again, just use two colors or more if you want. But I find that I like using just two because then it keeps things clear, minimalist and just it gives me some breathing space as well. I like to add color, at least to some of my bolded, if not all, of my bolded words because I feel that those are the key words. If they came out bold, I mean, they can come out in color as well using our alcohol markers, but truly you can use any markers. And I think I'm going to make all these pretty little hearts. Lots of hearts on this page. Looks like aha moments. Green slots of joy, lots of love. Let me see what the next marker, next color is. This one is a little darker, which is great because I like the contrast between the light color and a darker color. If your markers thick enough, you don't even have to write bolded bubble letters. You just trace it over once like this. Again, you just let yourself enjoy where your hand is taking you. Where your hand wants you to trace in a certain color. Maybe I'll trace over the line here. The reason I add color and also ink pen is because after a while your pencil kind of loses its color and it starts fading away. And I don't want these pages to fade away. I want to keep them as souvenirs for as long as possible. I think I added a little bit of each color to the top, the center, and the bottom. So for maybe one more thing, I'm going to draw this arrow. I think this was one of my favorite pages. As far as what to do to all. Made some pink cheeks. Maybe add a little color here. This ribbon. All right, now once you're done with your colors and you're happy with where you place the different colors. You can go ahead and ink the rest of your lines. So that's what I'm going to do. Here's when you can also decide if you want to either follow your lines exactly as they were, or you can sort of switch them out a little bit. Maybe I want to move this over here, keep it centered. You decide at the time. I'm just going to also do my little doodle arts with the pen because it's the thinnest, probably the easiest to trace over with. I don't know if I'm going to make all those curly lines. Then you trace over all your words. At the same time, you can just reflect on what you've written. I take time to look over what I've written the first time the sketching is actually thinking more about what I'm going to sketch. What I'm sketching, how I'm doing it, whereas tracing over it, I'm thinking, thinking about what I sketched. I'm just thinking now about this confidence. How big a deal it has been for me to not wait for others opinions of what I wanted to do, what I should do because there was so many shoots and musts and half to in my life. Most of the time it was because of people pleasing. Now that I've learned how to ask myself many of these questions, I've realized that hits at the core, it's at the heart of self-care. To ask myself questions. Make the time for that. Ask what lights me up, but what brings me joy? Or asked myself, should I be taking the song? Is it the right time? How do I feel about it? I've noticed that I'm so much happier because of it. Often when I've done things and said yes to things because of others who wanted me to do it. I ended up feeling either guilty because just frustrated in the end because I wasn't happy and I was feeling bad that it was taking time from my family are from doing something else that I really loved to do. Unless I'm not super piece okay with doing something. I'm I'm learning to say no. I realize that saying no to something is saying yes to something else. Usually saying yes to something. That's even better for me. Of course, there's a time and a place for each thing. There's the balance. I take time to volunteer and help others out because even though I don't have much time because there's so many things in my life and my business and my kids, my husband, home life. All those things take so much time effort. But I know that taking time to also help a friend or volunteer. That is part of self-care because it helps me to appreciate my life. Caring for others is finding the balance. I know that if I've taken good care of myself, I can take the time and make the time to take care of others. Song as I am focusing on one thing at a time and making sure that I'm not stressing out about it, but I feel peace if my gut is telling me that it's okay, then I move ahead with it. As I'm writing this, I'm even thinking of examples of how I've cultivated these aha moments in my life. I can think of countless examples. Just being reminded of those. Also very important. And it helps to personalize things for you. Kind of reminds you about why you made certain decisions. Maybe hopefully makes you feel good about those decisions. If you want, you can even put on some soft music. Put down something to listen to. Just quietly. Listening to your heart and enjoying this process. Relaxation. Making this time for yourself is such a beautiful gift. And you won't be disappointed by it. Every time I do one of these pages, I just feel lifted in some ways. All the disappointments, all the difficulties have been pushed to the side. Not that they're gone. Because there will always be their feelings, even negative feelings. They'll be there. They're not for us to fight. Something has made our lives difficult. It's okay to feel bad, It's okay to feel sad. Fall as we move on from there. At some point because we want to feel good. Again. I already finished drawers, then. Go ahead and go to the next video if you want. It's still taking your time. Pause this and take as long as you need to find that some of the pages that width, some of the pages, I'd take a little bit longer. Some pages for me come easier. Sometimes I have more ideas. Sometimes it just flows. Other times it's a little bit more of a struggle, but I tell myself that it's all part of the process. Just like we have some good days and some days are a little rough. The same with creations, our creativity, our self-care. Part of the journey. We have some ups, we have some downs, we have some hills, we have some valleys. I like to add little fun things to think of more things you would like to add as you do your little line art. Feel free to do that. Now we're just ending with our title. At some point you want to add your date somewhere? I didn't leave space for it, but you can even add it to the little blank spots like that. Anywhere that you have some spaces. I hope that you'll start noticing and paying attention to all those aha moments in your life. Now I'm just going to go through my page and erase all the pencil lines that's not needed anymore. Just to have a cleaner luck. All right. Let's a little bit cleaner. Depending on the marker you've used. As you can see, with the alcohol markers, it doesn't erase the lines. The pencil, which is why sometimes I wait before I color something in, for example, this box, I'm going to color it now without all the pencil lines, whereas here I kind of made the mistake. Colored it first. That's okay. You can even go ahead with your colors and add in anything else that you would like to be filled up with that color. Anything that you've forgotten. You can also go ahead and add a little bit of shading with your pencil or with a color pencil of your choice. I'm just, I just enjoy adding little nines for shading me. It's relaxing. If I have the time for it, I'll go ahead and do that. If not, you can already be finished. You can move it on to your next class, the next session of this self-care doodle journal. Like the pencil and it kind of gives a bit of texture. I love the little shading that it gives. Kind of brings my picture a little bit more to the knife. It's not necessary, so just do it if you enjoy it. If you want. All right. I think I'm happy with it. I'm all done. And we filled up our next page of aha moments. Personally, I like asking myself some questions IS or journal prompts. As it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question. Just sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. You choose what is right for you. Enjoy. 10. Simple Abundance: Welcome to another class on our self-care doodle journal. This is one of my favorites. It's called Simple Abundance, which will be kind of like a gratitude page. You can call it whatever you like. I just loved the word simple abundance because it reminds me that some of the things that I really enjoy and find pleasure in our simple. But they helped me feel. And I feel so rich when I take the time to think about what I'm grateful for, what I'm thankful for. So give yourself a little title and you can add your date right here. Now we're ready to stop, to pause. Take some time to unwind whether it's first thing in the morning or last thing at night, takes some time for self-care and reflection. Helps to reduce stress and anxiety from your busy day ahead or busy day that you've had maybe some frustrations or challenges, difficulties. And it's a wonderful way to explore and express your feelings and emotions. And with our gratitudes, we're going to express our positive emotions, which is a very important key to self-care. I'm going to go through my day. I'm going to start with my cup of coffee, my little morning ritual. I'm going to draw it here. Again, I encourage you to personalize this for yourself. Don't copy exactly what I'm doing, but take the time to reflect on what brings you joy and gratitude in your life. I have some coffee in the morning and in the afternoon I have my coffee and a little piece of dark chocolate. That's one of my pleasures as of late. Remember you don't have to be a great artist for this. You don't have to have any skill in art. And you can go ahead and write some words related to your pictures, related to what you're thinking, what comes to mind, what's on your heart? Or you can just choose to draw your picture or write something error. I'm just having fun filling the page was some of both. I love my coffee, my dark chocolate. What I also like to do is to write some of my feelings. How do I feel, how does it make me feel? I think coffee, chocolate makes me feel cozy. Especially this time of year. It makes me feel comfort to comfort and cozy would see if I can fit that in. Right comfort year. And here I could write cozy. Another thing I love, I'm going to draw here. And it'll camera. Remember this is just doodles, which means nothing too fancy or artsy. Very simple lines, sketches. That's what I love about doodles. I'm just drawing an old fashioned camera. This is for my family. Moments. Family times. This is one of my greatest pleasures. Think about what is a pleasure to you at this time. What you enjoy the most in your day and your week. Said to look forward to, I'm going to write family moments to keep as beautiful souvenirs. That's where the camera comes in. I might be mixing up types of lettering. I'm going to fill in it with some hearts. Grateful for good, healthy food as well. I'm going to draw a big clade. My salad. Avocados, broccoli, sweet potatoes, ******, draw some of those foods that you enjoy that make you feel really good. Yes, a nice piece of fish. Steamy right here. Good. Helped me feel healthier. Energised or energy Here, family moments to keep his beautiful souvenirs. I feel love. I feel care. There's so many to pick from. It's hard to choose just a few to fit on this page. Thanks. Something that's been very special to me, they lead is my quiet moments. I'm going to draw, maybe watch. You can clog or something. And my morning ritual gives me this quiet space, this space to reflect. I'm going to write here quiet time, whether I get to fit it in in the morning or maybe in the evening. I feel peaceful. Because usually I take the time in the morning. I realized that the more my morning is my best time. Course. I don't spend the whole morning. Spent I love it when I get up a little bit earlier than everybody else because I have more time, peaceful moment, mornings reserved for journal. This is where I started the habit of these doodles as well. It's from my morning that'll moments of quiet and sometimes I just write, sometimes I draw, sometimes I just reflect, sometimes I read. I loved the variety. That's where created ability loves to come and play because I'm dating myself fopen with this quiet time, peaceful mornings reserved for journal reflections. I'm going to write. Meditation's. Sometimes my meditation's could be just taking time to listen to my heart. Taking time to listen to a podcast or to read something inspirational, something positive. One other thing that I've loved and enjoyed so much lately is, which I kind of mentioned about the four, which is my query def clay. My creative play comes in all shapes and sizes, but my favorite creative play comes through art and illustrations. So I'm going to write here, are creative. I'd like to bold the words that are key for me right now that have lots of meaning value, Lots of feeling. I want to write some of the ways that it makes me feels by creative play makes me feel joy. Definitely, lots of joy. Sometimes I like to fill up the baked spaces with the big things and then I like to fill up all the little extra spaces with some of the ways it makes me feel. I'm going to draw something fun. Maybe balloons, something playful. Maybe I'll write here some of the feedings, no stress, pressure. What I love about creative play is that I don't have to go buy anybody's expectations. And that's why I called it play. It's not work to me when I just follow my intuition, follow my heart, my heart guide me and a creative journey. So sometimes it's easy to think about. The things that you are feeling grateful for. But then to put it into words, it's not always so easy, especially when you want to put it in such a little space or when you want to really concise it. So I love the fact that there's no stress or pressure. I love the fact that it's creative. Oops, I made a mistake. Creative and I love the fact that it's just playful, brings me joy. I use my art and no, maybe I will write no expectations is when I have too many expectations, I get frustrated. If I try to make it perfect and I tried to do it for a specific project or result and it just doesn't come out right or it doesn't flow and it's not playful anymore. Sometimes it goes along with my morning journals and sometimes it's just throughout the day when I have a little moment here and there. I love my home. I'm going to draw, try to draw my house. It's got some beautiful charm. It's attached with some other houses. I'm not going to draw all the details. Let's just draw some of the basic shapes of the house. You can take as much time as you want, draw as many details or as little details as you want. This is really up to you. It's a very tall house. I have a big garage door here. We even have shop window here and adore. Here's a window on a busy street. It's cut a little staircase going into the shop. Alright, so because it's just a doodle where going, doing a quick little thing like that. I love my home. Maybe I could try to tear this way. With your lettering sizes. Even with the lining of it. You can make it sideways, you can make it horizontally, vertically. I'm going to write, so I'm kind of a home person. Actually. I love being out as well, but I do love our little trips. I'm going to also draw a little card is like this. Trips out. I love being out in nature. I love that we have a garden. I love all my house plants. I'm not going to fit everything. I'm just going to draw some of my height houseplants. Don't know the names of all of them. I know I have a snake plant. Looks like this. I love beautiful flowers, vases. I have this little plants that are having babies all over. I have this plant that has little knees. I really like all kinds of plants actually, my office is full of them. Just makes me feel alive, makes me feel like I'm out in nature really that nature is part of me and it's a sense of inspiration to me. So I'm going to write nature. I might write plants, flowers. Just like trips, act. Personalize this for you. How did it make you feel? Oh, here I'm going to add cozy to my house and love the coziness a bit warm so you can go ahead and fill up your spaces. Grateful to have wonderful kids, to have an amazing husband. Feel healthy energy. A boy, I think this is all I can fill that with. There's no more space otherwise. It would be so much more that I can't even fit into these little cracks. I think to sum it up in one sentence, I'm having the time of my life. I hope your page is also filled up with beautiful gratitudes and all the things you love and enjoy right now at this time. And that it was fun and meditative, relaxing. If you needed to unwind and spend time for you. Now you can go ahead and take some markers or you can ink it. I'm going to maybe start by inking two colors that I like. Let's see how these two love to get there. I'm going to start with some of the bolded words. Because this is a thick brush pen. I like to put some color into different parts of my page. To use the thinner side. Trace over the word. When you can choose if you want. Some of the things inked in black, or you could trace them over with one of the colors that you have. Might trace over my word. Need some space in between. I'm going to use a thick part. You can even do a little coloring if you want. Of course not. Everything is going to fit exactly the right color. Because I've just chosen two colors. You can add more color to yours. There's no right or wrong way to do this. Let's whatever. Your heart. How are your hand guides you to do enjoy the process, Enjoy your creativity. That's the reason for this course. The first place. Might make some little pattern, spoke it off. As you know by now, I love little polka dots. Add them to whenever I can, wherever I can. Some other things you can outline, some can just come in. Since I've been doing my daily gratitude. So I've realized that becomes so much more meaningful to me and definitely a big part of my self-care routine to springs peace and joy. And it helps me be more attentive my days. The things that I love and want to be reminded of over and over again. It's whatever we focus on is what we get more of. Alright, I'm going to go ahead and do the rest with my black pen. We're not going for perfection. Infection would be maybe getting the proportions. Just write. The point of this exercise is not to get your art just strike even though in some ways it improves your art, definitely because you're learning to express yourself with your art. You're expressing yourself through your art, but you're also benefiting something so much greater, so much deeper, which is your inner well-being. I taking this time for you, you realize that you'll be better equipped to take care of others to do your work, your job. Take your time with the kids. Don't see this as time wasted. Little bit hard for me to start taking this time. Started out feeling guilty. Oh no, I'm taking too much time. Sometimes I get carried away, so I'm all worried. Oh no, I won't have time to get to my job. I won't have time to finish my projects and all that, but everything ends up fitting in just fine. Most of all I end up feeding relaxed and balanced and less stress than if I spent all that time working. For some reason, it just works. That way for me. So try it out for you a little time for this activity. And already, just the fact that you're taking this course shows that self-care is important to you. And so I really want to congratulate you for that. That's already a great step. Let's take the time to ask yourself, why would I do this? What would be the benefits for me? I think we all have our own personal answers. Taking the time to ask yourself what it means for you is so much more rewarding, personalized it for you. Thus, it's makes such a difference in your own life rather than hearing it from somebody else. So I suggest that you do take that time for that. A little bit more gratefulness, little bit more of the things that I love thinking about, those things, reflecting those things all need brings more happiness. Funny, you might even start seeing certain patterns. For example, the words cozy twice. Which makes me think that it's something important to me. Yes, When I do think about it, I think that's one of the reasons I love being home most of the time. And it has that cozy feeling to it. By paying attention to those things, you'll learn more about yourself. Might just skip out on all the shutters. It's too much too many details. We have our last little title. The last thing you want to do is just take your eraser and clean up your page a little bit from all the pencil. I don't know about you, but whenever I look at these inches, I'm just like it's just something to look back on. The reminded of wonderful souvenir, beautiful memories. Because as time goes on we change. These are some of the things that we can remember in hold onto for a long, long time. That's what I love about it. I'm like, wow, I took the time for that. I made the time for that even in the middle of my super busy hectic schedule, busy day. And then I'm like, so grateful that I did it. Here we have our simple abundance gratitude page. Personally, I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question or just sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 11. Self care Rituals: Welcome to another page of our self-care doodle journal. This time we're going to be really focusing on our self-care because our title for this one is called self-care rituals. Go ahead and start with your title. You could call it self-care rituals. You could call it self-care habits, self-care routine, whatever you prefer, and how you would like to personalize it for you to call them little rituals because it reminds me that they are important. I encourage you to personalize this once again for you. And what would be your self-care rituals? I'm going to go ahead and just give you examples of the ones that I do for me. Whether on a daily basis, some of them are on a weekly basis, some could even be on a monthly basis. That's for you to plan out in organized for yourself. But here are just some ideas and maybe they will help to spark some ideas for you. Go ahead and watch this video and join me along and we can do it together. Or you just watched this video and then you can do it in your own time, personalizing it to you and your self-care needs. To get started. I'm going to just put my pen on the paper sometimes I don't know where to start, how to start. I just close my eyes or I take a moment to breathe deeply. I ask myself, what am I self-care goals, what do I do each day that made me feel cared for and loved or that made me feel important and ideas start popping up right away. Don't worry if they don't just give it a little bit more time. Right now the first thing that came to mind is my reading times. I don't get to this every day. I tried to whether it's in the mornings, in the evenings, I just see what works better with my schedule, with my kids schedule. I stay flexible to what works for each day. So I'm going to just doodle here of book and I might add reading. Something. Uplifting that is key for me. It needs to be fun. It needs to be uplifting, inspiring, or something that sparks me joy and lights me up. Especially first thing in the morning or last thing at night, I went to end the day or start my day with something positive, something happy. Another very important thing part of my self-care is taking time to reflect, to think, meditate, relax. I write some of these words down. I can't very well do some of these things while multitasking. So it actually helps me to just stop, stop anything else I'm doing and focus on me. Take the time to listen to my heart. What is my heart telling me right now at this moment? Take time to meditate, reflect. You can use whatever words fit you best. If you're religious person, maybe you would call this time prayer. But I think it's just so key for us all to have our own little ritual that feels good to us, whatever that may be. Going to hear a little phone. Not because I feel that's important to my self-care, but I do enjoy listening to podcasts, especially while I cook lunch. That's my little podcast time. So great to draw the ear. It helps pass the time. It helps give me ideas, inspiration. I'm going to write some of the ways that I feel it's self-care for me. For one, it's fun. I feel that I grow and learn from them. I recognize some progress in my life. Infarcts, inspiration. So don't be afraid to write and doodle or journal some of the feelings that you get from your self-care routine or your self-care rituals. Because I find that to be so, so wonderful to go back to and refer to later. Draw a little flower here to go along with this little speech bubble or thought bubble, kind of a relaxing nature. Another thing I definitely consider self-care is going on a walk. And I tried. If you do that, whether it's exercise walk or a peaceful nature walk. Just doodle something simple. When I go for a walk, I really see the difference when I go and walk in nature. Somehow it just grounds me. It just gives me that extra peace and calm. I'm going to draw in some grass, some sort of nature. One thing, just walking around town or walking to the shop, which I do anyways, but I tried to at least go out in nature once a day, draw some leaves. If it's horrible weather, at least I go and step out in the garden. I'm going to write here, walk. For me. The benefit is the walk. It's also the exercise because that's part of self-care. I need that, especially when I sit all day with my work. I'm going to write in nature, It's one thing to walk, but I think nature is an important part of it for me. One of my biggest things which is very related to this right now, what I'm doing, what you're doing as well is journaling. That's one of my top self-care rituals. Whether it's journaling with words or with pictures. Maybe you like writing poetry or songs, singing to me, that is all part of innovative self-care. Turn off daily, which is what I tried to do. Whether it's one of those. I can add a little sun with a happy face. Sometimes I use prompts, sometimes I use my own ME journals, sometimes I draw. I'm going to delve a little bit more into that here. I'm going to journal feelings. Just add a pencil for fun. What else do I journal? My thoughts? I journal my grieves. Might think that you don't want to dwell on the negatives, but I've learned that taking time for this one is so, so important as well. I wouldn't be here where I am today if I didn't take the time to handle take care of my mental well-being by being willing to dive into some of the difficult experiences I've had in my past and my childhood or as I've grown up. And it's really opened up so many more possibilities and freedoms in my life. But first I had to be willing to get there. Sometimes we have to be willing to go to the other side, difficult side before we can get to the happy side. Journal, my Julie's. I also take time to ask questions. It's a new one for me because I didn't do this before and I didn't see how important it was. I didn't feel probably I didn't think that my opinion mattered. My feelings mattered. I journal on paper in my little journal book with I'm going to write, writing. Just because that's part of my ritual. It's very varied because I feel that I need, that, I need that in my life. If it was always the same, it would be boring. I don't like that. Sometimes it's with art. Sometimes it's with poems. Yes, I like to write poems as well. I'm not so great at it. And sometimes it's with audios. I might just record a little audio when I feel the need to get something out or to record something that's on my heart. Maybe a joyful moment or difficult moment and just express it somehow. That's what's the wonderful thing about journal. Express. Express, all these things. Imagine holding all these things in for years and years and years of boy, I did that. I did that. Another part of self-care is making sure that I take time for rest and sleep. I'm drawing here. Big pillow. If I haven't slept so well at night, I tried to take a rest during the day. One other thing is I'm going to make just a fun little speech bubble here. Another, the part of my little ritual, positive half formations. This is something that I've learned as well recently. Some of my usual ones. I can do this. So this is helping to build up my confidence. Another one, I am enough. Another one that is very humbling for me. I like the saying goes, tell her she's beautiful and she will be beautiful. I've learned to actually do that for myself. I'm going to fill it with some flower doodles because I love drawing flowers, makes me happy. Usually when I create little affirmations for myself, I fill it with flowers. Basically, affirmations are just like you're proclaiming. You're telling yourself something, you're giving yourself a little message. Something that you want to hold onto, something that you want to believe. The way that I find those or figure out the ones that I need the most is I asked myself what is difficult for me or what is something that I really have a hard time with. And then something that I'm negative about, especially related to myself or my body. And I think of the opposite. Then I write that down and that is my affirmation. I tell myself over and over again until I believe it it's actually worked. I am so happy to see that a lot of my negative feelings have actually dissipated because of that. Especially related to my body. I had some issues or my health. I might add him here. It was it's too crowded. It's not so clear. I know, but I'll get it for some is related to my confidence or lack, or was my lack of confidence. Maybe in my work, in my art skills, my creativity. I'm enough is related to my, my emotions. I never thought I was enough to be able to create courses or to do some of the things that I wanted to do or try out. Now, I know that I'm enough. Beautiful, related to my body, my physical anyway. So I encourage you to think of those positive affirmations for yourself. If you haven't already, and try to add that into your self-care ritual. But this is not, this class is not for telling you what to do or not to do. Just sharing with you some of the ideas that I do. Another one is this one can be really anything or everything. It myself on a playful date. So what does this mean? It can mean something different for everybody. So yes, we have dates with our husbands, are our partners. We have dates and times with our friends, with our kids. And just recently I've learned to take myself on a playful date, which means I think of something that I would enjoy doing and I do it all by myself. Whether it's taking a bath or going shopping, going to the library. It could be anything that is meaningful to me at the time. That brings me joy. Sometimes it's just looking at my sketchbooks or getting ideas. I think just anything that lights me up. I'm going to add another little happy face. I tried to do this once a week. Sometimes I don't get to it, but I noticed that it really does make a difference. It can be very varied, again, definitely part of self-care because it's not always easy to find the time or to make the time, but it is well-worth it. I think the last one that I'm going to fit in here is related to my food. I've been paying more attention to what I eat, maybe focusing on healthier foods, avocado, some of my favorite foods. And also in the way I presented. No, I love art and I love making things look good. So I might add little potato slices with an olive on top and a little piece of parsley on the side just for the log. Because looks is half of the enjoyment. It'd be ADD be truths and slice it up like this with some cheese in this in-between. I did another little leaf of men onto a piece of fish and enjoy all that goodness. So delicious or beautiful, maybe I'll call it beautiful meals because maybe tasty. Tasty meals. Alright, well, that is some of the things that I include in my self-care rituals. It's not all of it, but I wouldn't have the space. Just put the ones that come first. I have other ones like taking care of my face, my hair, and my skin, my wardrobe, treating myself to something special other so many, but I can't list them all here. But this is just a little idea and it's something fun to think about to reflect on. And also as a reminder for you that you are important. And you can take that time for just you. Moving on to add a little bit of color and some ink, I'm going to choose two colored markers again. Just going to put a little bit of color. Oops, I didn't expect this color to be so dark. We'll go with it. Must be important because it's going to really stand out in this color and say I'm going to use a thinner side. It is really thin. You can decide what you want some color in or do the speech bubble here. I'm just going to trace over. I wrote and leaves up, leave the white in the middle. I can always go back to that color after let me see what looks good with this color. Since I liked her one. So I like using a blend of a dark color and light color kind of keeps the happy medium. Some contrast as well. And maybe color in some flowers. These ones and these. Just have fun, enjoy. Congruent to color her pants, my pants. Again, that little happy face here, although it's supposed to be a sun. Let's see if we can add in a little bit more of this color. Maybe with this word here. Some of the words here, maybe beautiful. All right, the rest of it, I'm just going to go ahead with my black ink pen and trace over. It might be wondering, you might be thinking that this is taking a long time. And if so, don't worry, if you don't have the time for this, you can always do this at another time. Sometimes I don't have time in the morning to get to my sketch. And then in the evening, I'll just enjoy another few quiet moments putting some color and some ink. That's okay. Actually helps. Remind me of my little reflection time and my little self-care time. Because the more you think about something or reflect on it, the more you'll remember and it will become a part of you. Don't be fearful to do that. And don't worry if you have to cut your little class times into one or two sessions. Oops, I'm spacing out pod cast. If you have space, you can always fill in some of the blanks with some other things, other feeling, words, feelings, or emotions that this time gives you my pages pretty full but yours and you can even fill it up more if you want. I think my journal expressing all these things, I could probably have a long list of things, benefits and feelings, ways that it makes me feel. It might not be able to fill it all on my paper. What I do sometimes is take more time at another date to delve deeper into my pages here. If you want to do that, then I encourage you to go ahead and do that. Since working on this Doodle page for my self-care rituals, I've been building many more habits or routines for my self-care. Either extra pleasure, full moments that make me really happy and satisfied. Maybe other practices that I never thought of doing before without benefit me. Healthcare. The way this came about was checking in even just a few small moments, DAD asking myself, what do I want to focus on in my self-care today? Or what self-care ritual would make me feel really good today. Another one of my favorite questions is asking myself, how would that tie into my self-care? Because it seems that the more I think about it, the more ideas and inspirations I get. Somehow related to my self-care, both physical and emotional self-care and well-being. There are so many aspects of self-care that it's hard to fit it all into one page like this. If you're curious to find out some of the other ways that I pay attention to my self-care or some other little rituals and routines. You're welcome to check out some of my other courses. I find that I need lots of variety as well as I evolve and grow into self-care. That's why it's been so helpful for me to check in often with how it's going. That way I can let go of the little habits that aren't necessary for me anymore. Maybe I've grown from that area. And then it gives me more room to focus on something else that is very important for me at this time. My advice is to just stay with the flow. Stay centered, live in the moment. Sometimes my thoughts go all over the place even as I trace or journal. Other times, they're just my mind is just still and quiet. That's all. Okay. Self-care is being sensitive to what you need at the time. This moment. That's what being present is. Present to enjoy the moment, the way that you need to enjoy it right now. I'm not pushing yourself in any way because of something that you feel you have to do, you must do. Just do it because it feels right. And because you want to. I'm enjoying this piece is quiet. Relaxation. From my mind, even for my body. I'm just sitting here. I have my cup of tea next to me. Right here. Almost finished. Come on, things at all. Details are very tiny. So if you have even a thinner pen, probably help. Almost done here. Okay, take your time. We're not in a rush. You are important. You have all the time in the world to take care of yourself so that in turn you can take care of others. I'd be very curious and I would love to see some of your pages. Please feel free to share some of your projects with me from this class. You can post them. We can all enjoy them together and get ideas and inspirations from each other's creative works of art. I love also getting ideas from others because they might have done something, tried something that works for them that I would not have thought of. What sharing our work for, for inspiration, for growth. We're nearing the end of the self-care rituals page. I hope that this was a helpful reminder to you. The things that you can do for your SAP care. Maybe giving you other ideas of what you would like to put into your self-care habits, routines. Bei denen, just going to go ahead and erase that pencils. Personally, I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question or just sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 12. Let Go-Focus On: Here we are with our blank sheet of paper for the next part of our course. For today, I'm going to draw a line. Feel free to use a ruler to just draw a line straight down in the middle. Because this time we're going to divide up our page into two columns. I'm going to make my titles up here for this one, just draw my straight line for the top box at the title. Here, I'm going to write I let go. Dot, dot, dot. And then I can close my box. For this one, I'm going to write. Focus on. Feel free to use whatever hand lettering type of font that you like that suits you. There we have our two titles and the reason I'm putting them on one page is because sometimes they go together, but they don't have to. This is a little ritual that I do for my morning journal time. And I find it so, so helpful to focus and pay attention to things that I wanted to let go of. Things that I want to focus on. The feelings that I want to let go of any negative feelings or emotions or frustrations, negative thoughts, journal, write them or doodle them on this side. And then once I've finished one, I kind of liked to move on to the next one. I'm gonna let go of feeding this way or release this negative thought. And then I want to focus on this instead. Kind of gives another option to feeling sad and negative or unhappy, frustrated, stressed out. It kind of helps me realize what I want to focus on instead what I want to pay attention to, give time for. And also it helps as a little reminder, anyway, I love this little exercise and I found it so, so helpful. Tying along with my self-care. I'm going to go ahead and give you a little ideas of what it could look like. And maybe some from my past week and you can go ahead and join me, but personalize it to your situation, your feelings, your emotions, because that's what will make a huge difference and that's the part that you'll find very helpful and meaningful getting to the other side. Alright, I'm going to just think for a little minute. Maybe you have a lot going on and it just takes a little time to choose which one you would like to put down or which one comes first, or maybe how you want to put it on your paper. I'm going to start by writing my word here. I want to let go of frustration over. I'm going to add a little arrow there and I'm going to draw my computer. I've had all these computer issues lately, especially because my work is all on computer, it is very frustrating. I'm sure you can relate if you've been there. It just slows me down, my programs just crash. And yes, it really tries my patients computer problems. So I let go of the frustrations over my computer problems. I'm kind of like telling myself I'm letting go with this. Instead, I'm choosing to take it gracefully and maybe take time to focus on something else instead of computer work, I could go ahead there and add the opposite of what I want to feel instead. Notice that I'm not ignoring my feelings, a frustration and inpatients about my computer problems. They are real, they affect me and keep me from feeling at my best. So I pay attention to them even if they're negative. That's why I'm writing them down here or doodling them. But then I'm also choosing to move on from there. Which is when we delve into the focus on this. Because at the same time we don't want to just put a band-aid on our wounds sort of thing. That's such a big lesson I'm learning for myself care. Another big one, daly, is this feeling that I just don't have enough time. To do everything that I want to. I'm going to draw a clock. Sometimes I might feel like writing. Sometimes it comes out in a picture instead. Important part is just expressing your feelings. Expressing those emotions in some way. The self-care aspect of this is paying attention into your feelings, noticing them, and checking in. Because it's not always so common that we ask ourselves, what do I want to let go of? What do I want to focus on? We might get so taken up by our busy schedules are plans and programs. But I've found that it's so key to take the time for that, at least in my life lately. Not enough time to do everything. It doesn't. Somehow, when I'm putting it down on paper, whether in doodles or in writing. Somehow my heart feels just a little bit lighter. My mind is just freeing, liberating to just let go of it. Another big one that I'm feeling at the moment is some impatience. I release. I wanted to let go of impatience. Get my courses done. It's funny, but when I start creating a course, I get so excited, I get so inspired. And I start planning it. I start working on the outline. Maybe I might start filming it and then something happens and there's a halt, there's a pause, there's an obstacle, and I have to wait to continue it. I get so impatient. I'm like, Oh, I wanted to get it done. Either it's with computer problems or maybe my cameras stops working or the battery dies or something just seems to happen. So know that I could use a little bit more patients. So I'm letting go of inpatients and I might draw some of the little courses that I've been working on. I started a little hoarse about cats for a cat. It or it'll pit journal kind of happened that I didn't get to finish it. I barely got to start it. And other things came up instead, so I haven't even started it. I just planned it out. Now it's sitting on the shelf for a little bit. Anyway, so I'm letting go of patients to get it done. And I'm even going to write the feeling. I think it really helps sometimes to write the feelings, feeling that I have to do it. All right now, really, it's, it's probably just me putting on this pressure for myself. Nobody else's telling me what to do. So I do want to let go of that feeling that I have. This is a big important key for me. Another one is perfectionism. In case you're like me, you're creative. This is biggie perfection. And this is something I probably write down and let go very, very often I'm going to draw a little star. I want to be number one. I want everything to be perfect. I want people to see me in a good light, but I'm realizing that that's not necessary. I wanted to let go of that because then I become so much happier. I'm going to write here obligations. Another one. Whenever, where you have little spaces you can add any more doodles are anymore. It'll keywords that just come to mind as you're checking in and asking yourself these questions. In other one lady, I haven't been sleeping very well, so I feel very tired. I didn't go well. Since think what words would fit best, maybe I could just write the word tired and draw as sleepy. Sleepy me. Sometimes it ties in with my work. Sometimes I'm too excited, sometimes I'm a little bit stressed out. So I know that it's it really has a lot to do with how I'm handling these emotions. Just going to put some Z's here. Here I have big bags under my arms, my eyes, sorry, hired. I can write tiredness and often the key to let go of these things is to ask myself, what can I do about them? How do I want to let go of tiredness? Well, I can focus and make time for taking a nap if you're not sure what to put on, I focus kind of you can make it tie along like I mentioned before, or it can, it can also be just totally different things. At the thing that comes first to mind is I want to focus on doing one thing at a time. I'm going to make this really big and bolded. Because this one is really key for me at this moment. One thing at a time, Another one I want to focus on is what brings me, Joel. I'll put it as if it were a little flag. Another one related to self-care again, is asking myself, this can be in light of work, personal life, practical life, time with friends. What is my heart going to make it a little speech bubble? Is my heart telling me. You can ask yourself this about many things. I'm going to add a little heart here. Here. What is my heart telling me related to my work or my courses, even related to my computer problems are my frustrations or my tiredness. Very often my heart tells me, this is related to work, is telling me to create or play. So I am taking time to pay attention to those feelings. Make the time for that. I also would like to call it playful art. That's part of my self-care routine. I take some time every day or every other day. I don't push myself over it. I mean, I don't gild myself over it. If I can't if it doesn't work one day. I'm going to draw a little playful. Even though my kind of play is art. I focus on doing one thing at a time on joy. What brings me joy? What is my heart telling me? It's telling me to draw, create, play, play for art. Another thing that I am focused on lately is asking myself, why, why am I doing what I'm doing? It's kind of helpful to ask myself, why am I doing this? What am I, what is my heart telling me then, what am I doing? Why am I doing what I'm doing? And how? This is a question that I add to this journal or I mentioned it many times. How does it make me feel? So I'm going around and just having fun with this. Turning it upside down. Protect yourself, play and have fun. Even if my word is upside down. That's what's great about doodles. You're doing this for yourself. And I'm going to add a big question mark, because this is a big important question. Why am I doing what I'm doing? So this can be related to my work, my personal time, my hobbies, and then how does it make me feel? So taking the time to journal about that is so enlightening. Another one that I want to focus on is I bet you can tell what I'm drawing here. I want to focus on new ideas. I'm going to write here new ideas. New inspiration. I'm just going to write in spoke short for inspiration. I'm going to draw a happy little light bulb. Light bulb is for the ideas. I can add some sparkles, new ideas, new inspiration. And other thing I want to add is I want to focus on balance in my life. Maybe I'll put a heart in the middle. This is a enlight of today's course to focusing, learning to focus on balancing self-care. My work. This is a challenge, but it's really something that I want to continue to do. I feel I've made so much progress. I've learnt so much this last year, these last months. And I've experienced so many amazing results because of it. Maybe I might add some feelings that tie in with this. Brings me peace. By focusing on my self-care. I've also built confidence. Confidence. Oops, that's probably not big enough. I'll write joy. Going to wet. I'm going to add confidence into this one. By finding the right balance in my work. I've built up confidence in my work. I've been able to make much more progress. For my self-care. I've learned or felt acceptance of myself no matter how I am or not, what I do or don't do, I've realized that I am enough and that's at the heart of acceptance. Finding the right balance in my work has also given me so much more passion and excitement in my work because I haven't felt stressed or pressured to do anything because I take time to ask what my heart is telling me and how does it make me feel? Why am I doing what I'm doing? So it's amazing that all these things that I'm learning to focus on actually has huge amazing results in my self-care and my work. And I'm just realizing this now as I put it all together, anyway, I love this about journaling. You get these aha moments as you go. I am focusing on Jul. That's at the heart of it all. Gratitude. That's a big one too. I'm going to put it in a nice little ribbon. When I focus my mind, my thoughts on gratitude than everything is okay. Another one I'm learning is that it's okay to say no. Realizing that it's not selfish. There's a time and place and it's okay to do it. I don't guilt myself over it anymore. Okay. Well, I think we're done. I hope it went well for you as well and that you really enjoyed this process of letting go and focusing on such a mindful time for me relaxing, unwinding from the busy day. Or if it's something you're doing first thing in the morning, I'm going to go over it with my pen and also some colors. So I have a marker here. I chose my colors. I kind of wanted a blue and maybe a peach color. I could go ahead and either start with my markers or with my line. Start tracing some of the letters or doodles that I may want to stand out a little bit more with some color. I'm going to make this big bolded word here. What is my heart telling me? So as you're tracing over again, it's a good reminder for you. I'm going to also the word why? Since these are two big questions, I might drop color in my heart. Maybe draw over the the scale just to help it stand out a little bit more. I think that's good for now. Laughter. You can always go ahead and choose the same color if you want to add some more. Here, I might color in this ribbon. Try not to color in on the texts because sometimes my pencil smudges a little bit. To color in this bolded word. You can feel free to use whatever medium you feel most comfortable with. What makes you happy or what you have on hand, even if it's not markers, then go ahead and use some colored pencils or maybe some paints. Just make sure that it fits okay with your paper. Again, I'm going to color in this joy ribbon. I noticed that I wrote joy twice. This must be an important thing for me to focus on. That's one of my main self-care goals. Asking myself what brings me the greatest joy? And that's been something that I have been focusing on. Must be something I want to continue to focus on because it's there twice. So again, it's the question, what, what brings me greatest joy? That's the question that's at the heart of self-care for me. Because if it brings me joy, It's something that I'm going to find pleasure in. I'm going to do it. Well. It's going to make me feel good. And in return. In turn, it's going to help me be greater health and joy, inspiration to others. Alright, to go ahead and color in This computer screen. All right, I think it's good for the colors. Now. I'm just going to go and ink the rest of my page. As you trace, just feel free to change or archer or add some things that you want. Some of the amazing things while as I'm, as I'm tracing over, I kind of think about what I drew and how they tie along together. For example, when I feel tired, if I let go of tiredness, I know that it will kind of free me. Letting go of some of these frees me to be able to focus on this. For example, letting go of tiredness. Even though I'm just letting go of the feelings or the thoughts. It's freeing me up to think about what I can do. What is my heart telling me to do? Maybe it's telling me to take a nap. So as I let go, I am liberated. I'm free to feel the way that I need to feel. Maybe take the steps to think positively to get to the other side of the negative feelings. That's a very practical example of how taking the time to do this little exercise can be. So the benefits can be so amazing. And I've seen that. In so many different areas of my life. That's why it has become my little routine, daily routine. Sometimes I write it out. Again. I do the same process. I just have one side of the paper for I did go out. The other side of the paper is what I want to focus on. When I feel more creative or when I just wanted to play and wind even more. It's when I add some art, which is what I'm doing here. I'm just having fun adding even more decorations. You can put as much into this or as little into it as you want. And as you have the time for don't feel guilty if you can't get to the inking at the same time or in one girl right after you've done your sketching? Like I've mentioned before, it's fine if you do it that evening or even the next day. One time, I took every day to sketch something and I only got to ink them in on the weekend. I was okay with that. Sorry, I'm just seeing what I wanted to ink next was actually fun. A good little reminder for me of what I had let go of and focused on in my week. Otherwise, it's like we're just piling on more and more. Hertz. I noticed how how amazing it is to kind of look back in time a little bit on my past journal prompts or past posts. I guess you would call it. And it's so interesting. I love it because it really shows where I've made progress and in what ways I've grown. If you want a little inspiration, if you want some encouragement. As you'll notice while I do the inking, some of the time, I'm talking maybe talking to you, giving you a little few instructions or examples of what I'm doing or my thought process. Other times, I'm just being still and quiet. And that's okay. I think we all need to take that time to listen to our hearts. Even as we're doing a digital activity or project. Doodle page like this. Go with the flow. Go where your heart leads. Think about things, reflect on things. Just have fun and enjoy the process of doodling and inking. All of it is beneficial for you and your self-care. Such as remind yourself of this. We can move on to the happy positives. Just curious, how has it felt for you to work on these pages? Something you can ask yourself, It's something you can share with a friend or your loved one. If you like. An amazing thing that I've realized is as I've let go of perfectionism, or in patients or obligations feeding I have to do at all. I'm free and open and so much more inspired to get to this side. I'm almost liberated to the playful art. When I hold on to those. And negative feelings. It almost it almost keeps me back, holds me back. I've realized the process of letting go. It's just as important as focusing on the positives. We're often told, were very often told. Look on the bright side of things. Your gratitudes every day. What are you most thankful for all that? And I totally agree. That is so, so important. But I do believe, and it's something I've experienced in my own life that I also need to take the time for releasing. Not only releasing, but paying attention to the negatives, whether it's frustrations, maybe it could be even bigger like griefs, disappointments, or difficult situations. Pass things from childhood or we need to make the time for dealing with those difficult things in order to get to the other side. Otherwise, it's like we're just piling on. More and more. Pain. Hurts. Little bodies started on mind's eye a little hearts can only take so much of that. Until we finally crack. Or until we get sick. Maybe physically or mentally, were not made to handle so much of that. So much pain and negatives. That's why in my personal life, I found it so beneficial to let go and release. That didn't serve me anymore. That was holding me back from being what I needed to be today. What I could be. Now that you're done with all your lights, you can finish off by erasing your pencil. If you have some cleaner lines. At the same time, it might make it clear. In case you've forgotten to draw some things like for me, I forgot to trace over my computer, my monitor. So I'm going to go ahead and do that because we don't notice it so well with a very light peach color. This ribbon I think is okay like that. Once you finish this, you can also decide if there's other things that you want to trace over. For example, I might want to make this word stand out a little bit more. Again because the pencil lines or you raised, now the color peach is very light. This was a bolded words, so I feel that it was an important one. I want to make it stand out more. I liked having my little stars with an outline. Maybe I'll just go ahead and do the little ribbon here. I don't want to forget this line can also go ahead and make little lines are straight lines. Leave a little space in-between up to you how you don't want to do it. There, you have it yours letting go of and focusing on page personally, I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question. Porches sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 13. My Special Place: Let's begin with our next little class related to our self-care. Today, we're going to be delving in focusing on my special place. I will start with my title down here at the bottom. As usual. I will write my special place. You can give it whatever title you would like, something related to your favorite place, your surroundings. Then I will close up the box and make space for the date. Moving on to filling up our page and do thing about the special places that we love. So you can take a little moment to get quiet, to relax, to unwind. Think about those places or spots in your house or in nature, wherever you feel, comfort or cosy or that have a special meaning to you. I'm going to start out by my special place at home. I'm going to probably draw just the shape of a house. Kind of start with a triangle for the roof. Square, or rectangle shape for the house part. I might write here, my special place at home. Because I'm thinking about the different places I enjoy. I have special places at home, maybe out in nature, maybe more specifically in my bedroom or in my office. So it's whatever really you find that suits you the best. I'm going to draw my special place at home, which is right now, probably my little cozy spot where I just take time to read to get quiet and have my breakfast, my little journal time. I call that my special place. I have a really comfy chair, couch, armchair, trying to depict it here by memory and what it looks like. So just think about a place that either has meaningful you are where you love to hang out. Either where you take your quiet times or your I'm thinking about my self-care and this is the spot that I love to put aside that time for me, just me. I'm going to make it a little bit shorter so that it fits into the house. Maybe something has come to mind. Maybe not yet. It's okay. Just take your time and I'm going to draw a little a little foot rest. You can draw any little detail that you want to include. I have a little pillow or a few pillows and I'm going to draw here my little book and even my little pen because that's where I sit and I journal and I have my little table with my cup of tea or a cup of coffee. In my little stool table there. I have a bookshelf. I have more books to read. I might have a little picture frame. There. Have been a little candle tonight. And I love my little labs. As you doodle and draw or write, take time to notice those things that you love about her space. You could just draw your couch, but taking time to notice the things you love and ask yourself what is special about those things? Not only will they bring more meaning to you, but you'll probably appreciate them even more after thinking about them. Okay, so I might write, you might also write, how does it make you feel? I love that. It's so cozy, quiet. That's where I spend my time. So it's not in the living room, It's in my office. I take this time for mainly for reflection. I would say it sums it all up for me because I take time to read, to meditate. A journal reflection and also to dream. This is the perfect little spot, my favorite little spots to do that, just fat. Moving on, I think I'm going to go to my facial or favorite place in nature. I'm going to write here. In nature. Here is probably my next favorite place to be. I'm really are home person. I think when I'm out, sometimes it's hard for me to go out, especially if the weather is a bit cold and gloomy or too hot. I'm very affected by the extreme weathers and where I live, ellipse. I need to write this a little smaller where I live. We do have some extreme weather. Sometimes a little bit difficult. Summer gets too hot, winter gets too cold. So I think my favorite times to go out and be out in nature is an autumn and spring. Anyway. That's also another thing that I've found out about myself is I took the time to doodle and journal. That way. I'm okay with it and I accept it. I don't feel bad. I don't get guilty over it. Why I don't go out more. Summer months are the winter months and just enjoy my different spaces at different times of the year in different seasons. So where do I love being out in nature? I think one of my favorite place is going out in the forest. You live in a little town in surrounded by little forests. We take some forest walks. I love to go out with my husband and sometimes my kids are happy to come along to. Right now. It's autumn. A beautiful colored leaves. I like to just doodle, or right? As it comes to you, just write doodle what it is that you enjoy. I might just draw. Also again, whatever comes. Ever you feel inspired to draw or doodle at the moment. So I think I'm going to draw some of these because right now there are leaves all over, but there are beautiful red, yellow, brown colors. I just love that about right now. The little walk in our forest has such cute little spots. There's even a little bridge. There's a little bridge. Looks more like a rainbow. Just going over a little stream, little waterfall. Even. Pay attention to those little details and you can ask yourself, why are you lie them? Draw a little bushes. Going to go ahead and draw some trees. You can draw more details on, some. Can be a little bit more behind. Ever feels good and right for you. Think about your favorite leaves, your favorite trees. I love those birch trees that are really tall and their trunks are white. Around here. We also have lots of pine trees and they are so beautiful. We see them all year round, not only in winter. That's what I love. I think about European forests. They have so much variety. I'll draw some bushes, lots of deep thoughts or as many, you can draw as many or as little details as you want. Here's my little stream underneath the bridge. Alright, There's probably so many things I could draw about nature. I love watching the birds. I just feel so calm and at peace. At peace in nature. Some way, some reason it brings such clarity, as well as sparks me with inspiration. There's just something about being there. Then I'm going to maybe write another place. Whereas my special place, outdoors. But not only add in nature, but I'm just reflecting here on what else, What other places outdoors do I enjoy? Or do I find special? What do I sort of consider to be my little self-care enjoyment or self-care haven. I think one would be visiting friends. I'm just going to put some little hearts. Visiting. Friends and family, That's probably my next best place to be outdoors. Another thing I enjoy is might be a little tear realistic one, but hey, we're listing our self-care wishes and things we love. So I might as well included here, I love going to just going to draw a little shop, window. Clothing shops. It is part of self-care. You can treat yourself to that once in awhile. Sometimes I just go for the fun of it and for some window shopping doesn't have to always be to buy something. Part I think I only have space for probably one more. I'm going to add here in my office. What's my special place in my office? Because that's where I spend probably most of the day. And I loved my work. I tried to make it comfortable, inviting, keep it organize. It doesn't always happen perfectly. I might just draw my desk, one of my desks. I have a desk for art and a desk for my computer. And maybe I'll draw me over here. Feel free to put all your place, your favorite place, your next favorite place, because this is still at home, I guess. I do enjoy other spots. I enjoyed my room for certain reasons. I enjoy my kitchen because I also find it relaxing to just take a break and maybe cook something, bake something. I think being an artist, being so passionate about my work, loving my work, I will include my office. I'm working here even though it looks like I'm well, my eyes look like they're closed. I might add my colors. So again, include what those details are about that space that make it special. And ask yourselves, take the time to ask yourselves to reflect. Because you'll notice that this will make it even more meaningful for you. I love my new paints, that I have everything on my desk available. Paint brushes, my ruler, all the material that I need his right there at my disposal of a cup of water for the paint. I have my little notepads, my papers, even have my little lamp. Some reason I loved little lamps. I have my comfortable chair. Can include any other words. Passion, because I'm so passionate about my it work, I love it. And in my office I get ideas, I get inspiration. Watch, All right, just in SPO, we already have inspiration from nature, but I get inspiration as well from my office. I have some picture frames that inspire me. I can draw a flower, maybe. I think I love that it's my own space. Any way that you can personalize it for you and add all those. Robert, you would like to remember or to think about. Go ahead and personalize that for you. At the same time, it helps me to think about that there's anything that I could add into my space to make it even more special. For example, is I took the time to think about my cozy little spot here, made me think that I needed a new couch. I had a very hard, uncomfortable couch. Recently. I got myself a really comfy, puffy couch that makes it so much more special anyways, so now that we're done pencil drawing and sketching, you can take your bedrock pen, your markers to add in a little bit of color. Might go ahead and start with that part. So I want to see what colors we have here. I'm going to start by some of the bolded words, some that I want to emphasize, some that just came in bold. I guess it's kind of like the titles. You could say. This is another good little exercise for yourself care because it helps you to think about your spaces. Not only the spaces that you love, but as I said before, even the spaces that maybe you could improve. So that would help even improve in your self-care. For example, in my office, I thought about some of the things that I might organize better just to help keep me motivated and making better decisions for myself. Without stress, without pressure. Deep cluttering I think is a big part. Not having too much stuff, just having the right amount to simplify my life as well. So I took some time to go through each cupboard, each drawer in my office, and I'm working on decluttering some things emotionally. And I feel that my surroundings has so much impact on my inner well-being as well. And that's one of the reasons why I've, I've included my special places because I really believe that some of these effect our mental state. I really want to place that I can practice better habits. We often say that our well-being comes from within, which is very true. But I feel that it's too folded. I definitely feel that a lot of it comes from our surroundings and on the outside. I love making my spaces beautiful, cozy, warm feeling. Maybe that's what I love about my home so much. I loved the fact that I can just come in from the end of the day and enjoy it to the full. For some reason after I've come home from an outing or visiting France, I'm just so contented to come back to my space and I think we should all feel that way. We should all love our homes. So if there's some reason you don't love while you don't feel good in one of your spaces in your house and maybe ask yourself how you can improve it, how you can make it special for yourself. These make one little spots in your house where nobody else can put in their messages or their stuff. Just try to find one space that you keep for you. Whether it's your closet. If you have an office, maybe I'll add some of the trees. Making a space beautiful and comfortable doesn't need to take a lot. If you feel you don't have much to put towards it, then just ask yourself, how can you make it comfortable? How can you make it just right for you? With the things that you have? Sometimes it just takes moving around a few things actually. Not that you have to go and get all these new things for yourself unless you want to do that. Of course. That's what you feel would be good. I'm going to trace over the lab and maybe it'll pillow. I'm going to do the other color. I like blue for my nature, even though most of the things are green here, I might just add a little bit of blue to my trees. Maybe make some polka dots on the couch. Think about the colors, even the patterns. Are you drawn to certain colors or patterns in your spaces? Those are the things that bring you peace or that make you happy. If you set up your spaces, how you love them, they feel right for you. You'll see that things will come so much easier for you, not only in your decision-making, but you'll also have more inspiration, more peace, more calm, more clarity. I've noticed that for me. It just takes a little time for first of all to reflect on those things and second of all, to put to put them to use, put them to practice, maybe make it a habit. I've started to make myself a little habit of asking myself often. Just take every season to remap, revamped my areas a little bit. All right. Now that you're done putting color a little bit everywhere, you can go ahead and ink it or at the rest of it that isn't already with marker. Something else I've noticed is that even though tiny little changes that you make to your space or to your surroundings, maybe you move your chair facing the window, or you move a part of plant where you can see it and feel refreshed or feel keys. Just those tiny little things. Even maybe placing a book that you're reading on to your bookshelf by your comfy couch. Whatever it makes it easier for you to stick to your positive habits. For example, before I started the habit of journaling, I didn't really have a quiet space or a quiet spot. So just making a little anytime a nice space already encouraged me to use it to the maximum. Helped me to make the time for it. Now, it's something I look forward to every morning. I'm surprised that just by changing my surroundings, it's changed the way I think about things. Changed, the way I think about my morning routine. Even the way I think about decorating my home. Now I have in mind not only what looks nice, it looks beautiful, but also what brings more value. More joy, and more piece my space. How can I improve my space? Or what can I make special about this place that I have? Maybe you feel that you don't have a place that you can call your own. That's when creativity comes in. You might have to be very creative on what space you use. Even if you only have your closet or the toilet. I remember when my kids were young, I would just sometimes go in the toilet and I would have a little bookshelf and that was my little place. I knew that I would be quiet there for these the few minutes. That might sound drastic, but you can find a place if you want to know another one that police My dad used to use was he would go to the car. He would have his special place in the car because he knew he was gonna be quiet there. So that's another idea. If you don't have that special place at home, make sure that you personalize this page again. For your needs, your wants, your desires, your feelings. You don't need any special skill for doodling. You just need a little imagination. Then maybe it'll fun. Take the time for some fun play. Tell yourself that there's no buddy That's going to see it or judged or judge, you buy it. That's why I'm not so into getting a totally perfect this probability in Oaxaca, real scribble. But it means it to me. Then it will mean something different to each of us. I've tried lots of different leaves and I think that's because that's one thing I love about Optum. There is a variety of leaves. I love that little grass, little flowers. Just going to add in some more trees in the back. Can fill up your spaces if you want some more as you go. Right here. Creativity. Because having beautiful place definitely helps to spark my creativity. Beautiful space, comfortable space. It's inviting space. I'm asking myself what kind of space makes it those things for me. Then it will help you to kind of clearer the ways that you can personalize your space to make you feel good. That inspires you. That sparks joy or creativity. What you're specifically machine or hoping for in your space. Don't limit yourself. I think we sometimes, I know if you take for granted labels, simple things that can make a big difference. Like I mentioned before, whether or pots of plants, vase of fresh flowers have a wonderful husband who remembers to bring the occasional flowers. Because it's not something that I'll get myself. But if you don't have somebody that will get you some, then maybe there's something to treat yourself too. For yourself care. Do you like seeing beautiful flowers or just fresh flowers in your home? Especially in the winter months when it can get big, sad and gloomy or it's easy to fall into depression. Probably just having a little gritty bouquet of flowers could help make a difference to your space. Then I'm going to trace over my title. Now you can go ahead and erase the extra little pencil lines that weren't useful. Just for a cleaner look. My special place, Doodle page for my self-care. Personally, I like asking myself some questions or journal prompts as it helps me delve a little deeper and listen to my inner expressions. If you feel that this is something you'd benefit from as well, then I've included a few questions here to get you started. You can pause the video and journal your thoughts after each question. Just sit back and reflect. I've also included a file that you can download if you prefer doing so at a later time. Enjoy. 14. Congratulations: Congratulations for completing this course with me. I'm so happy and I hope that you are too. And as I've said before, this may start you on your own self-care journey with even more doodles or art projects I wanted to share with you here maybe a few other ideas of topics you'd like to do it on the bat. Here are some of the ones that I've done as of late that had been so much fun and meaningful for me. Once again, I encourage you to find your own topics, to find your own prompts, and to doodle your own way that is most beneficial and meaningful for you. Now that you've finished this course, something really interesting would be to answer this question for yourself. Once again. What is self-care? To me? Again, write this down in your little self-care journal or a notebook. Then remember those questions that you asked yourself before the course. Well, here's the time you can take them out again and look over them, read them, and compare your answers from then. And now after you've gone through the course. What is self-care to you? Do you see some difference or maybe some patterns? Do you feel more clarity? Now, as you answer it this time? You could go even further to ask yourself, what do I feel I got out of this course? Or maybe how much did I get out of this course? These are questions just for you. But as you'll notice, it will start a little habit of questioning yourself to help you realize that you matter, that you're important, that you are beautiful, you are loved, and you are so deserving of this self-care, as well as to give you more clarity and understanding about yourself, your preferences, how you handle things. And this is amazing growth in self-care. Thank you again for joining me and for helping the world be a better place because you've taken time for you. The world needs more of us who are paying attention to our self-care. Because in turn will be creatives who helped shine a light on others through our art. Or even just with our smiles and our presence. Thank you again and enjoy a wonderful day. A wonderful continued journey in your self-care.