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Resending: Self Care Newsletter Vol#50 Week #2 "The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention." Anthony J. D'Angelo
Published 23 days ago • 11 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive
NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE
Focus: Refresh Your Mind and Heart
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
Etty Hillesum
Your Weekly
Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter
Volume #50
Refresh Your Mind and Heart
Before we chase the goals and the "new year, new me" hype, we must first ensure our internal garden is cleared of last year's weeds. We are here to create a clean slate, a light heart, and a focused mind for every day that follows. Think of this as clearing the environment—because a refreshed mind and heart need a clean operating system to live in.
Our minds get stuck on old narratives, replaying the same stories over and over. Every time you catch yourself thinking about a 2025 failure or stressor, physically say "Refresh" and immediately name one thing you are grateful for right now in 2026. I discovered this interrupts the neural pathway of the old story and forces your brain to anchor in the current, abundant moment.
I used to hold onto emotional clutter because I thought I needed to solve it, to fully understand it before I could release it. Then I started asking myself, "Does this feeling serve the person I am becoming in 2026?" If the answer is no, I give myself permission to stop investigating that feeling. I don't have to "fix" an old hurt to move past it; I can simply choose to leave it in 2025. This is the ultimate act of heart-centered self-care.
A refresh is a daily practice, not just a New Year's event. Make sure the voices in your ear—and on your timeline—match your 2026 vibration. Start your day with a Mind Pour: three to five minutes of journaling to get the thoughts out so they don't clutter your day. In 2026, we are not resting because we are tired; we are resting so we stay refreshed.
A refreshed mind sees the way, a refreshed heart feels the way, and a filtered environment keeps the way clear. You have everything you need within you to make this your most intentional year yet.
Be Blissful,
Dr. MoJo: Self-Care Strategist
A Sacred Welcome: Your Time to Renew Your Spirit
Wholeness, Beautiful Soul✨,
Welcome to this sacred space where renewal becomes your priority and refreshment is your right. This week, we're exploring the essential practice of refreshing your mind and heart—clearing the mental clutter, releasing the emotional weight, and creating space for clarity, peace, and renewed energy. You deserve to feel light, clear, and alive again.
Honoring Your Need for Renewal: The Sacred Art of Mental and Emotional Cleansing
There's a powerful truth about sustainable living that our culture often ignores: you cannot pour from an empty cup, and you cannot think clearly from a cluttered mind or feel deeply from a weary heart. Just as your body needs regular cleansing and rest, your mind and heart require intentional refreshment—a clearing out of the old to make room for the new, a release of what's weighing you down, and a renewal of your mental and emotional energy.
Your mind accumulates mental clutter like a home accumulates physical clutter: worries that replay on loop, decisions that drain your energy, information overload from constant consumption, mental to-do lists that never end, other people's opinions crowding your thoughts, negative self-talk that's become background noise, and unprocessed emotions that take up residence in your psyche. Without regular clearing, this accumulation becomes overwhelming, affecting your clarity, creativity, peace, and joy.
As women, we often prioritize everyone else's mental and emotional well-being while neglecting our own. We hold space for others' feelings while suppressing our own. We solve everyone's problems while our own minds remain cluttered with unresolved questions. We carry the emotional labor of our households, workplaces, and relationships without ever asking ourselves: "When do I get to refresh? When do I get to clear my own mind and lighten my own heart?"
Refreshing your mind and heart means: releasing thoughts that no longer serve you, clearing mental clutter and decision fatigue, processing emotions instead of suppressing them, letting go of resentments and old hurts, creating space for new perspectives and possibilities, quieting the inner critic's constant commentary, releasing other people's energy from your space, and reconnecting with your own clarity and inner peace.
This week, we honor your need for mental and emotional renewal and celebrate your commitment to creating internal spaciousness. You're not just practicing self-care—you're engaging in the sacred maintenance that allows you to think clearly, feel fully, and show up as your best self.
"Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It's about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them."
Kristi Ling
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Here is a list of the previous recorded Chakras: 0. Earth Star, 1. Root, 2. Sacral, 3. Solar Plexus, 4. the Heart, 5. Throat, 6. Third-Eye, and 7. Crown: Totaling 8. You will receive the Chakra Series that includes the recordings with an in-depth eBook to solidify your understanding and practice by January 31st, 2026.
Nourishment for Your Soul: Creating Internal Spaciousness
Food For Thought
When was the last time you felt truly clear-headed and light-hearted? When did you last experience that wonderful sensation of mental spaciousness where thoughts flow easily and your heart feels open and free? If you can't remember, it's time for a refresh.
Consider this: You wouldn't go months without cleaning your home because you'd be living in chaos. Yet many of us go years without clearing our mental and emotional spaces, wondering why we feel overwhelmed, foggy, and heavy. Your internal environment needs maintenance just as much as your external one.
Signs You Need a Mental and Heart Refresh
You know it's time when: You feel mentally foggy or can't focus. You're overwhelmed by small decisions. You're carrying resentment or old anger. You replay conversations or situations obsessively. You feel emotionally numb or disconnected. You can't remember the last time you felt joy. You're exhausted but can't pinpoint why. Your inner dialogue has become predominantly critical. You feel like you're just going through the motions.
The Weight of Unprocessed Emotions
Emotions that aren't processed don't disappear—they accumulate. That grief you never fully allowed yourself to feel. That anger you swallowed to keep the peace. That disappointment you dismissed as "no big deal." That hurt you told yourself to get over. These emotions take up residence in your body and heart, creating heaviness, tension, and a sense of being weighed down. Refreshing your heart means finally processing what you've been carrying.
Mental Decluttering Practices
Just as you'd declutter a room, you can declutter your mind: Brain dump everything onto paper to get it out of your head. Identify thoughts that are on repeat and consciously release them. Notice which thoughts serve your growth and which keep you stuck. Practice redirecting unhelpful thought patterns. Create boundaries around information consumption and news intake. Establish "worry windows" where you allow worry for 15 minutes then consciously release it.
Heart Renewal Through Release
Refreshing your heart often requires releasing: Forgiving (not for them, but for your own freedom). Grieving what was lost or what never was. Letting go of expectations about how things "should" have been. Releasing people who no longer align with your path. Accepting what cannot be changed. Making peace with your past self's choices. Clearing space for new love, new joy, new connections.
The Power of Empty Space
We're often afraid of emptiness, but empty space is actually full of possibility. When you clear your mind and heart, you create room for: clarity to emerge naturally, creativity to flow freely, intuition to speak clearly, peace to settle in, joy to return spontaneously, new ideas and perspectives to arrive, authentic desires to surface, and your true self to breathe.
Refresh as Ongoing Practice
Refreshing your mind and heart isn't a one-time event—it's an ongoing practice. Just as you shower daily to refresh your body, you need regular practices to refresh your internal landscape. This might be weekly journaling, monthly therapy sessions, quarterly retreats, daily meditation, or simply moments throughout each day when you consciously clear and reset.
The Ripple Effect of Refresh
When you refresh your mind and heart, everything shifts. You make better decisions from clarity rather than confusion. You respond to life from peace rather than reactivity. You create from inspiration rather than obligation. You connect from authenticity rather than performance. You love from overflow rather than depletion. Your refreshed state becomes your gift to everyone around you.
What would become possible if you gave yourself regular permission to refresh, renew, and clear the accumulated weight from your mind and heart?
Tips~Strategies~Affirmations~ Simple Practices:
Self-Care Wisdom of the Week
Tips for Mental Refresh:
Brain Dump Practice: Set a timer for 10 minutes and write everything that's on your mind—worries, to-dos, random thoughts, feelings. Get it all out of your head and onto paper. This alone creates significant mental spaciousness.
Information Fast: Take 24-48 hours completely off from news, social media, and unnecessary information consumption. Notice how much mental energy this frees up.
Strategies for Heart Renewal:
Emotional Release Ritual: Create sacred space to fully feel and release one emotion you've been suppressing. Cry, journal, move your body, or express it to a trusted person. Let it move through you instead of staying stuck.
Forgiveness Letter Practice: Write a letter of forgiveness—to someone who hurt you, to yourself, or to life itself. You don't have to send it; the act of writing releases the weight from your heart.
Affirmations for Refresh and Renewal:
"I release all mental clutter and emotional weight that no longer serves me, creating spaciousness for clarity, peace, and renewed energy."
"I honor my need to refresh my mind and heart regularly—I deserve to feel clear, light, and alive in my own internal landscape."
Simple Daily Practices:
Rising Mental Clear: Each rising, take 2 minutes to consciously clear your mind before the day begins. Take three deep breaths and visualize releasing any lingering thoughts or worries.
Evening Heart Check: Before bed, place your hand on your heart and ask, "What am I carrying that's not mine?" or "What am I ready to release?" Let whatever arises be acknowledged and gently released.
SELF-ASSESSMENTS & TRACKING
Daily Check-In Questions
How clear and spacious does my mind feel today?
What am I carrying in my heart that I'm ready to release?
What one thing can I do today to refresh my internal landscape?
How much lighter do I feel after my refresh practices?
Weekly Reflection Assessment
Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 for this week:
How cluttered or clear does my mind feel this week?
How heavy or light does my heart feel?
How consistently did I practice mental and emotional refresh?
How much more clarity and peace do I have after this week?
Reflection Questions:
What mental clutter most needs clearing right now?
What emotions have I been suppressing that need processing?
How has my life improved when I regularly refresh my mind and heart?
Deep Reflection Questions:
What thoughts am I replaying on loop that I need to consciously release?
What old hurt or resentment am I still carrying that's weighing down my heart?
How have I been afraid of the empty space that comes after releasing, and what might that space actually offer me?
What would my daily experience feel like if my mind was clear and my heart was light?
What boundaries do I need to set around information, relationships, or responsibilities to maintain my mental and emotional refresh?
How can I make refreshing my mind and heart a regular, non-negotiable practice rather than something I do only in crisis?
Habit Tracking: "Sacred Refresh"
Track your daily rituals for the week.
Ritual: Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun.
Rising mental clear practice
Did one thing to declutter my mind (brain dump, limit scrolling, etc.)
Processed one emotion instead of suppressing it
Released one old thought pattern or resentment
Evening heart check and release
Wisdom From Spiritual Mothers & Fathers
Louise Hay:
"I give myself permission to let go. I release the old and joyously welcome the new."
Maya Angelou:
"Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future."
Iyanla Vanzant:
"Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change."
With Love and Light
Dearest one, remember that refreshing your mind and heart is not a luxury for when you have time—it's essential maintenance for sustainable living. Just as you cannot drive a car forever without changing the oil, you cannot move through life forever without clearing your mental and emotional accumulation. Your clarity, peace, and vitality depend on your willingness to regularly create internal spaciousness.
In your relationships, a refreshed mind and heart allow you to show up present and open rather than reactive and burdened. Emotionally, processing and releasing what you're carrying prevents the buildup that leads to numbness or explosion. Physically, mental and emotional relief reduces stress hormones and supports overall health. Financially, decision-making from clarity rather than mental fog leads to better choices. Spiritually, internal spaciousness creates room for divine guidance and inspiration. In your mindset, regular refresh transforms overwhelm into calm and confusion into clarity.
This is the magnificent gift you give yourself through regular renewal—you get to experience life from a place of lightness and clarity rather than heaviness and confusion. Every moment you clear your mind, every time you process an emotion, every instance you release what you're carrying, you're not just feeling better temporarily—you're creating the internal environment that allows you to thrive.
Trust the process of release. Honor your need for refresh. Create spaciousness in your inner world. You deserve to feel clear, light, and alive.
You are exactly as deserving of mental clarity and emotional lightness as you've always been—you're just finally making it a priority.
With reverence for your renewal journey,
Your Self-Care Strategist
P.S. Beautiful soul, if you're reading this feeling overwhelmed by all you're carrying, please breathe gently into your heart. You don't have to release everything at once. Refreshing your mind and heart is a practice, not a one-time purge. Start small—release one worry today. Process one emotion this week. Clear one mental loop. Each small release creates space for the next. And remember: the weight you're carrying isn't proof of your strength—it's often evidence that you've been strong for too long without rest. You're allowed to put it down. You're allowed to feel lighter. You're allowed to refresh and renew as many times as you need. That's not weakness—that's wisdom. Start today with just one small clearing, and notice how even a little spaciousness can help you breathe easier.
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
Etty Hillesum
Join Ignite Your Inner YOU Community where it starts and ends with you BECOMING Intentionally YOU! It's time to start BETTING ON YOU!
Pricing Options:
Monthly: $20/month
Quarterly: $60/quarter
Annually: $240/year
Call-to-Action: "Don’t wait to start your journey. Click below to join Ignite Your Inner You Community!!!
Here is a list of the previous recorded Chakras: 0. Earth Star, 1. Root, 2. Sacral, 3. Solar Plexus, 4. the Heart, 5. Throat, 6. Third-Eye, and 7. Crown: Totaling 8. You will receive the Chakra Series that includes the recordings with an in-depth eBook to solidify your understanding and practice by January 31st, 2026.
The whispers of the INNER YOU awaits with patience.
SHINE YOUR LIGHT!
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What if I told you that the key to unlocking your joy, energy, and fulfillment lies in understanding your unique Self-Care Archetype? 1. Nurturer, 2. Guardian, 3. Alchemist, 4. Intuitive, 5. Abundant, 6. Communicator, 7. Creator, 8. Balancer
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