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Increasing the margins in our days.

Exercises to calm your nervous system: supportive social engagement and social connection, trauma-sensitive breath work, walking, slowness and releasing urgency, time in nature, track experiences of awe and wonder, journaling, soothing self-compassion holds, meditation, stretching, yoga, nourishing meals, sleeping, emotional safety ritual, movements that brings you joy, creativity, and grounding practices.

“Doing less is medicine for your nervous system. Slowing down is medicine for your nervous system. Pacing yourself is medicine for your nervous system. Integration is...Being gentle with yourself is…Honoring your changing capacity…Tending to your needs is…Managing your energy instead of your time is…Self-compassion is…Rest is medicine for your nervous system.”

I feel like rather than a dual timeline / flashback system, we needed the book to start a little earlier on so that we don’t just jump straight into the “enemies” portion of what will likely be ”enemies to lovers.” I feel like I needed some more time to adjust and get to know the characters. It just feels a little rushed and intense from the start.

I’m enjoying this book but the first half definitely had a fantasy-book-in-the-middle-of-the-series-transition feel to it.

Sometimes I forget that a little over 100 years ago kids were sent to work houses 😥

Okay unrelated, but the kids at this boarding school eat delicious-sounding meals. 😂

“Dating Pierce was the equivalent of being ravenously hungry and then eating one Pringle.”


Also, I don’t think our FMC should be taking dating advice from her mom given her parents’ relationship 🫣