Hi friends. Welcome back to Self Care Daily. I hope you've had the most beautiful weekend.

It's time for us to dive into a brand new topic here on the show. And today and this week,

I want to talk about mess. I want to talk about the messiness of life, the mess that is being human,

the mess that is being a parent, if you have kids at home, the mess that is living a regular

life. I feel like many of us, me absolutely included, we spend a lot of

time trying to avoid the messy parts of life. We try to keep everything tidy, both at home,

around the house, in our relationships, in our work. We like to color inside of the lines and do the right thing.

And, you know, if you're anything like me, you probably spend more time cleaning up messes

than you do actually making them. Right. And it occurred to me the other day just how

valuable it actually is to allow ourselves to get messy. Because it's truly not

until we are at that place where we are allowing mess to happen, that we can actually let go and

just fully be immersed in the present moment, or fully let go and just immerse ourselves in

creativity or in play or

really diving into whatever the thing that we're doing actually is if we always have one eye on

making sure we're doing things the right way or one eye on how can I make this as perfect as I should, then we're never going to be

able to actually let go and just go for the thing. Am I resonating with you? This occurred to me

not just from spending lots of time with my kids where I spend more time keeping things tidy.

I mean, I'm a parent. It's my job. But when it comes to

making art with my kids, I kind of do the same thing. I treat art with them as if it's my job to

tend to everything being tidy and perfect instead of just letting go and making the art, right?

And I really want to let go and make more of the art.

And I feel like many of us do.

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