Hi friends, welcome back to Self Care Daily. It's time for our final practice of this week.

And today, I am so happy to let you know that you're going to make a mess. And I know for some of you, that immediately is going to feel kind of icky and not

like something you want to do at all. But since this is a practice for self-care, I want to give

a little bit of space for our inner child to just go crazy and be as messy as they actually have always wanted to be.

We have that inner messy toddler inside of each of us where there's a part of us that's longing

to color outside the lines, to do the inappropriate thing, to let ourselves be as we are, to not try to be so put together

and perfect and polite all the time, but to just act out or act inward even. So I want you to take

a moment today to think about a mess you can actually make on purpose. I'm going to give you a

couple of examples because if you are

the kind of person that really struggles with messes, you like it clean all the time and tidy.

And when something is unorganized, it makes you feel like it's really overwhelming inside.

All of this is okay. So it's like a little bit of therapy here. We're like exposure therapy,

where we're going to expose

ourselves to that mess. So you're not going to go to the level of mess or any level of mess that is

going to trigger your nervous system. Okay. That's going to make you feel unsafe or like something

is out of control and this is totally not doable. But you're going to allow yourself a level of

mess that you can hold,

right, that you can actually soften in. And that's going to be a little bit different for each

of us. So you choose. I'm going to give you some examples now. So a great way to make an intentional mess and to allow for an

intentional mess is to bake something. Of course, this is something that's amazing to do with your kids.

If you have children, involving them, will make this much, much, much, much, much, much,

much messier than it would be if you were alone, which is a plus for this practice, right? So baking while

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