4 Mindful Habits to Help Calm Stormy Mornings

Bonus, they take less than 5 minutes to do each

In your world, the calm before the storm is gently blinking open the eyes and taking a breath when you wake up.

Then the storm hits.

It’s dark. The sun’s not fully up and there’s already a whirlwind happening. Your 2 year old body slams you awake. It becomes noisy and full of action, lightening quick.

Your eyes are still half closed as you’re packing lunches, rushing around changing out of pyjamas, brushing teeth for young and old. Your oldest is doing his homework since we forgot last night. Yelling “bags packed and shoes on” for the fifth time. The routine should be down pat but with little boys with minds of their own you just feel like a maniac stress-head.

Sound a little too familiar?

Me too.

It was my normal for 2 years. I felt like I was running on high speed before my thoughts could catch up. When they did, my main thought — I had to calm the stormy mornings rather than let the storm rain on me.

I never used to have a morning routine. I still don’t. At least not in the way others may think about it.

I loved the idea of having a morning routine and tried these all but none really seemed to stick.

Trying to save time but they weren’t really time savers for me.

I realised none truly stuck because I was working on my physical habits rather than creating mental habits. I wasn’t solving for the real problem.

When I realised that I made the switch.

I started doing little experiments with tiny mindful habits to see which ones would stick.

2 years later, I have a stack of tiny habits in the morning and each take less than 5 minutes to complete to help me…

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