RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER: 🦩 The Mid-Year Reset I Swear By
We're halfway through the year, friend — which makes this the perfect moment to pause + ask: how's it actually going? Not the highlight reel. The real stuff. This is the mid-year reset I swear by — your chance to slow down, reflect honestly on the first half of your year, + realign with what actually matters before the next six months slip by. Whether you're feeling behind or right on track, we're gonna look at the data without shame, set goals that actually fit the woman you are now, + put a gentle game plan in place to finish the year feeling like you again. Grab the RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER Workbook + Companion Guide + do this work right alongside me all season. You are NOT too late to join. 🌿🦩
In this post we'll chat thru…
✻ Why a mid-year reset matters — and how pausing creates awareness, awareness creates agency, + agency creates real change
✻ How to treat reflection as data, not judgment — looking honestly at your year without the shame spiral
✻ 5 powerful mid-year reflection questions to realign with who you are now
✻ The GROWTH framework — turning awareness into intentional action without overwhelming yourself
✻ Why "gray is a color too" — and how sustainable growth lives in the middle ground
LET'S DIVE IN. 🖤
Hello HELLO friends and welcome back to The SELF CARE Sisterhood Podcast. Today’s episode is honestly one of my favorite kinds of conversations because it’s one I come back to every single year around this time.
A mid-year reset.
Really, it’s simply a pause.
A check-in.
A moment to zoom out long enough to ask:
“How am I actually doing?”
“Where is my energy going?”
“What matters to me right now in this season I’m in?”
And:
“Am I living in alignment with the life I actually want to create?”
And honestly? I think this conversation matters even more this year.
Because if you’re anything like me, the first half of this year kind of… flew by.
I keep joking that I’m still mentally in March because the year has just felt like it’s moving faster than I can keep up with. And maybe you can relate in your own way. Maybe life has just been full. Busy. Heavy. Fast. Maybe you’ve been surviving the day to day instead of being able to slow down long enough to really check in with yourself.
And that’s actually a huge part of why I wanted to do something a little different on the podcast this summer.
This summer, instead of bouncing around to various topics every week, I really want us to walk through a theme together.
I’m calling it: RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER 🦩
And the heartbeat behind it is really very simple.
I think so many women feel disconnected from themselves right now.
Disconnected from:
their energy.
their wellness.
their peace.
their routines.
their joy.
their intentionality.
their WHY — like why are you even showing up and doing the things you’re doing. What is it all for?
And there’s not one specific reason I can point out to you that this happens, but I think life just gets loud.
Stress.
Burnout.
Work.
Motherhood.
Phones.
Pressure.
Comparison.
Survival mode.
Schedules.
Responsibilities.
The mental load of being a woman in this season of life.
And somewhere along the way, I think a lot of us slowly drift from ourselves without even realizing it. It’s like a slow decay. And one of the things I always talk about in coaching women is how to catch ourselves before we spiral out, burn out, or simply bottom out. So this summer, I don’t want us obsessing over becoming completely different people. That is NOT the point of this series. I want us focusing on reclaiming the parts of ourselves that maybe got buried underneath all the noise.
You know, I chose a pink flamingo for the title of RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER and I want that imagery to stick. I’m not sure if you’ve ever heard about the pink coloration of a mother flamingo, but when she’s raising her babies, feeding them, and pouring everything out, her bright pink feathers can actually begin to fade.
Her body literally gives so much away that she loses some of her color in the process.
And honestly? I think so many women are living in that faded season right now.
Pouring into everyone else.
Managing everything.
Holding everything together.
Running on empty for so long that they barely recognize themselves anymore.
But here’s the beautiful part:
the pink comes back — in the flamingo — yes, but I also believe we can reclaim ourselves, too.
With rest.
With nourishment.
With recovery.
With care.
We can get the parts of us back that have dimmed.
And that’s really the heartbeat behind this entire series.
Not becoming someone completely different or reinventing your life overnight. Not even a 12 week, here’s all you need to do program and life will suddenly be perfect. No.
This summer my heart is to help you reclaim the parts of you that maybe got buried underneath stress, burnout, pressure, survival mode, or self-neglect.
Getting your pink back 🦩🤍 Reclaiming what matters most to us.
And today’s episode is where I think all of that starts.
This summer we’ll talk about how to reclaim our wellness, our energy, our routines, our peace and joy…all of that. But before we do any of that, we have to reconnect with WHY it matters in the first place.
We have to pause long enough to remember: What kind of life am I actually trying to build?
And that’s why I love a mid-year reset so much.
Not because you need to overhaul your entire life overnight.
But because pausing creates awareness.
And when you become aware, you create agency for change in your life. That’s self care. That’s a deep ownership over your life.
So whether you’re listening to this episode feeling really proud of the year so far or whether you’re listening thinking: “Wait…where did the top half of the year even go?” I want you to know there’s room for both.
There’s no shame here.
You could be crushing your goals and still need a moment to pause and honor that before moving on to the next thing.
You could feel completely off track and still create meaningful momentum from this point forward.
Because truly, there’s no expiration date on becoming more intentional with your life.
I think we forget that sometimes. We treat January like the only time we’re allowed to begin again. But six months from now, the ball is going to drop whether you intentionally reconnect with yourself or not. So why not start now?
Why not pause now?
Reflect now?
Realign now?
Spend this summer reclaiming pieces of yourself. Dusting yourself off and trying again.
Okay okay…I SWEAR we are going to dive into the reflection side of this conversation, but one last thing really quick and this is IMPORTANT.
I created this summer series for the next 12 weeks from a serious place of intention and coaching. If you’ve been following me this year I shut the doors to The Sisterhood Membership as a brief pause while I truly figure out what’s next for this community. I don’t want these episodes to simply inspire you for 30 minutes and then disappear into the noise of life by the time you park your car, finish your walk, or take your ear buds out and move on with your day.
I wanted to create something that helps you actually sit with this work, reflect intentionally, and reconnect with yourself throughout the summer.
So I created the full: RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER 🦩 Workbook + Companion Guide — a 55-page workbook designed to walk alongside this entire podcast series.
Inside, we’ll be diving deeper into reclaiming your:
wellness,
energy,
routines,
focus,
calm,
intentionality,
…and more.
Think of it like your companion for the summer 🤍🦩
And as a kickoff to the series, it’s currently just $19 — which honestly breaks down to about 23 cents a day for the entire summer — which honestly feels like a pretty beautiful investment in reconnecting with yourself. 🤍
The workbook is linked in the show notes if you want to walk through this season alongside me a little more intentionally or you can go to inspirebeautybritt.com/reclaim to get your copy.
Alright friends… without further ado…let’s kick off this mid-year reset I swear by — and it all begins with reflection.
LET’S START WITH REFLECTION 🤍
Pausing sounds simple in theory, but I actually think it’s one of the harder things for a lot of us to do.
Because the second we slow down long enough to really look at our lives honestly, we notice things. We notice how tired we are. How disconnected we feel. How fast we’ve been moving. How much of life has started running on autopilot.
And when we notice, we start to feel things like guilt or blame or shame… so instead of staying with the awareness, we avoid it. We stay busy. Distracted. Productive. Anything to avoid having to sit with what we’re noticing.
But friends, I want us to think about reflection differently this summer.
I want us to think about it as data.
Simply things that have happened.
Patterns.
Choices.
Behaviors.
Rhythms.
Ways we’ve been living.
Without emotional spirals, moral judgments of our character, or stories that mean we’re failing. No.
Just data. Everything right now is just data.
And data tells us things.
It helps us see what’s working and what’s not working. Not “good” or “bad.” Not “successful” or “unsuccessful.” Just:
Is this supporting the life I want to live?
Or is it pulling me further away from myself?
That’s where the shift can happen. This awareness is where you build agency and agency is where change can begin.
The moment you notice something, you suddenly have choice again.
You can ask:
Do I want to keep living this way?
Is this pace sustainable?
Is this habit helping me become who I want to become?
Is this supporting the life I say I want?
And sometimes the answers surprise us. I see it time and time again with women I work with. We pause and realize:
we’ve been giving our best energy to things that don’t actually matter that much to us.
or we’ve abandoned the very things that make us feel most like ourselves.
or we realize we’ve been surviving for so long that we stopped asking ourselves what we actually need. We’ve mothered everyone else and forgotten about ourselves.
That’s why reflection matters because you cannot intentionally reclaim your life if you never stop long enough to notice how you’re currently living it.
And that’s really the invitation of this entire series — reconnection. A chance to slowly come back to yourself again.
To your energy.
Your wellness.
Your peace.
Your routines.
Your joy.
Your presence.
The things that help you feel like YOU again. 🌞🦩 Alright. Let’s dive into a few of my fave questions to reflect on this time of year.
✨ WHAT WERE YOUR ORIGINAL GOALS FOR THIS YEAR?
When the year started, what did you want for yourself?
What mattered to you back in January?
And maybe more importantly… does it still matter now?
Because life changes us.
Priorities shift.
Some things deepen.
Some things lose importance.
Some dreams evolve as we evolve.
I think maturity looks like being willing to acknowledge when a goal no longer fits the season you’re in instead of forcing yourself to keep chasing it just because you wrote it down six months ago.
So this is a really good place to pause and ask:
What still feels aligned?
What feels forced?
What have I outgrown?
What do I want to reclaim moving into this next season?
✨ WHAT CAN YOU CELEBRATE SO FAR THIS YEAR?
This question matters more than most people realize because I think a lot of women move through life constantly focused on what still needs fixing.
What they haven’t done yet.
How far they still have to go.
What’s still undone.
Meanwhile, they completely overlook how much growth is already happening in their lives.
And not all growth is loud.
Sometimes growth looks like:
getting through a hard season.
resting instead of pushing.
showing up consistently.
starting over.
setting boundaries.
asking for help.
taking care of your body.
learning how to breathe again.
That counts too. The celebrations that I find are often in the smallest of moments in my life, not big milestones. Bit by bit it becomes a lot.
If this question feels hard, go look at your camera roll from the last six months. Your calendar. Your photos. Your texts. Your journal.
There are probably moments you’ve already forgotten that mattered more than you realized while they were happening.
✨ WHAT ISN’T WORKING WELL RIGHT NOW?
This is where honesty becomes really important.
Because most of us already know where things feel off.
We know when we’re constantly exhausted.
We know when our phone is draining us.
We know when our schedule has become too full.
We know when we’ve stopped taking care of ourselves.
We know when we’ve disconnected from the things that make us feel grounded and alive.
The goal here isn’t shame.
It’s awareness.
Remember:
everything is data.
And data gives you something really powerful — choice.
You cannot shift patterns you refuse to acknowledge.
✨ WHERE HAS MY BEST ENERGY BEEN GOING?
This question tells the truth really quickly.
Because we can say something matters to us all day long… but where our best energy is actually going usually paints a much clearer picture.
And I don’t just mean your time.
I mean your best energy.
Your attention.
Your creativity.
Your emotional capacity.
Your presence.
Your excitement.
Your focus.
Who or what has been getting the BEST of you lately?
And what’s been getting what’s left over?
That question can be a little confronting sometimes.
Because maybe your best energy has been going toward work while your relationships are getting the exhausted version of you.
Maybe social media is getting more of your attention than your real life.
Maybe you’ve spent so much energy surviving, managing, and keeping everything afloat that you haven’t had much left for yourself at all.
Again… no shame.
Just awareness.
Just data.
Because once you notice where your energy has been going, you can start asking a different question:
Is this aligned with who and what matters most to me in this season?
And if the answer is no, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed.
It just means there’s an opportunity to realign before another six months passes on autopilot.
✨ WHAT WOULD FEEL SUPPORTIVE IN THIS NEXT SEASON?
I think this might be my favorite question in the whole process because it shifts us away from performance and back toward support.
Not:
“What would make me more impressive?”
But:
“What would genuinely support me right now?”
What rhythms would help you feel steadier?
More calm?
More energized?
More connected to yourself?
More present in your actual life?
Maybe it’s:
meal planning.
walking.
less screen time.
therapy.
more rest.
better boundaries.
more movement.
more joy.
more margin.
reconnecting with your faith.
simplifying your routines.
This is your life.
Your season.
Your reclaiming.
And from here?
We begin rebuilding intentionally. 🤍
LET’S MAKE MOVEMENT 🤍
So now that we’ve reflected a little and taken inventory of where we actually are about halfway through the year, the next question becomes:
What do we want to DO with that awareness?
Because awareness matters. A lot. Most people never even slow down long enough to notice the patterns in their lives in the first place. But eventually there has to be movement attached to the awareness or we stay stuck in the same loops, having the same realizations over and over again without anything actually changing.
And I think this is where a lot of women accidentally overwhelm themselves.
We notice something feels off and suddenly decide: “I need to wake up at 5am, overhaul my entire routine, train for a marathon, meal prep every Sunday, delete social media, meditate for an hour, and become a completely different person by Monday.” 😂
Meanwhile our brains are just trying to keep us safe and regulated and are like:
“…absolutely not.”
I’ve done this too.
The second I notice I feel disconnected or off-track, my instinct is to overcorrect instead of slowing down long enough to ask: “What would actually support me right now?”
And there’s a difference between those two things.
Because sustainable growth is usually a lot less flashy than the internet makes it seem.
Most of the time it looks like:
finally making the doctor’s appointment.
bringing breakfast from home because you know skipping meals makes you spiral by 2pm.
putting your phone down earlier.
going on the walk.
drinking the water.
getting back into a bedtime routine.
having the hard conversation.
following through on tiny promises you made to yourself.
It’s small choices.
Repeated consistently.
That’s what changes a life over time.
And I think this matters because we live in a culture constantly pushing extremes.
All in or all out.
Locked in or completely off track.
Perfect morning routine or total chaos.
It’s like we live only in this extreme black or white point of view. But may I offer you a gentle reframe that has radically changed my life? Grey is a color too. It doesn’t have to be black or white. There can be middle ground.
There’s a middle ground between doing nothing and trying to reinvent yourself overnight.
And I think that middle ground is where sustainable change actually lives.
So before you rush into “fixing” everything you noticed during reflection, I want you to pause and ask:
What is this awareness actually inviting me to do next?
Because maybe during reflection you realized your best energy has been going toward things that don’t matter most to you. Maybe you noticed there are habits and routines that genuinely support you, but you’ve drifted away from them lately. Maybe you realized your original goals still matter deeply… but your current rhythms aren’t supporting them. Or maybe you realized some goals don’t even fit the season you’re in anymore and instead of feeling guilty about that, you’re ready to redefine what alignment actually looks like now.
That’s the work.
Not becoming someone new.
Paying attention.
Adjusting intentionally.
Realigning where needed.
Building more support around what’s already helping you feel grounded and alive.
And one framework that has helped me tremendously over the years when it comes to turning awareness into intentional action is something I call the GROWTH Method.
It helps me move away from black-and-white thinking and reconnect with what actually supports my real life in the season I’m currently in.
So as you move through the first section of the workbook — spoiler you can snag yours now for less than $20 and do this work alongside of me all summer long — I want you thinking about these questions through this lens.
✨ G — GOAL
What are you actually trying to move toward in this season of life?
Let’s move away from vague “I want to be healthy” and get specific here. What specifically matters to you right now?
Maybe after reflection you realize it’s:
Rebuilding your health.
Protecting your peace.
Getting your finances in order.
Feeling more present with your family.
Creating routines that help you feel steadier again.
Clarity creates direction. So that’s the first part — GOAL — what are you actually trying to move towards right now?
✨ R — REASON
I want you to consider the reason behind the goal. WHY does this matter to you?
This question changes everything because goals that only sound good on paper or goals that someone else set that inspired you a little bit usually fall apart the second life gets stressful or inconvenient.
What’s underneath the goal?
Do you want more energy?
More confidence?
More freedom?
More peace?
More capacity?
More presence?
Your reason is what keeps you connected to the bigger picture when motivation inevitably comes and goes.
✨ O — OTHERS IMPACTED
This next one is my favorite. I want you to consider OTHERS that are IMPACTED from you achieving your goal. Who else benefits when you show up well in your life?
I think this question matters because our energy impacts every environment we walk into.
Our homes feel it.
Our relationships feel it.
Our businesses feel it.
Our friendships feel it.
When you feel healthier, calmer, more grounded, more supported… that naturally ripples outward.
✨ W — WEEKLY CHECK-INS
This is probably one of the biggest game changers for me personally.
Because I think many people wait until they feel completely disconnected from themselves before they pause and check in again. Maybe that’s where I’ve found you today. It’s okay. I get it.
But small check-ins help us course correct before things spiral.
How am I feeling this week?
What’s working?
What’s not?
Where has my best energy been going?
Do I still feel aligned with what matters most to me right now?
Those little moments of awareness prevent huge disconnects over time.
✨ T — TIME FRAME
One thing I’ve learned about myself is that if I box myself into a set time to achieve a goal it simply feels like pressure and performance — not purposeful or progressive. When I taught elementary school the big thing was SMART goal setting frameworks and the time stood for TIME BOUND. That just sounds terrible. Being BOUND to a timeline.
Because what happens if the timeline comes and goes and you haven’t fully reached the goal yet?
Do we label ourselves a failure?
Do we quit?
Do we assume we’re bad at consistency or discipline?
I just don’t think life works that way.
Some goals ARE seasonal.
Some goals take years.
Some goals evolve as we evolve.
And sometimes reaching one mountain simply reveals another mountain you now want to climb.
That’s growth.
I think there’s a healthier and more sustainable way to approach time frames, and it’s looking at the season of time you want to intentionally devote toward making progress.
Maybe this summer is the season you focus on rebuilding your health.
Maybe this next month is about reconnecting with your routines.
Maybe this year is about creating financial stability.
Maybe this season is about healing, rest, or learning how to slow down again.
The point of setting goals isn’t “Did I completely arrive by the deadline?”
The point is “Did I move intentionally toward the life I want to create?”
Meaningful growth usually isn’t linear or instant.
It’s layered.
Gradual.
Built through repeated choices over time.
And personally? I think that approach leaves a lot more room for grace, sustainability, and actual life.
✨ H — HABITS / HABIT LOOPS
And finally — the actual habits, behaviors, and routines that support the life you’re trying to create.
Because goals don’t usually change our lives overnight.
Our repeated choices do.
And I think this is where people often overcomplicate growth.
We think we need:
the perfect morning routine,
the perfect meal plan,
the perfect reset,
the perfect system…
when most meaningful change is actually built through small supportive choices repeated consistently over time.
Your habits are simply the things you repeatedly return to.
The things that shape your days.
Your energy.
Your mindset.
Your capacity.
Your life.
And this is where I really want you thinking about support over punishment.
What habits genuinely help you feel your best?
What routines help you feel calmer, steadier, healthier, more connected to yourself?
Maybe it’s:
drinking more water.
getting outside daily.
meal prepping breakfast.
going on walks.
protecting your sleep.
putting your phone down earlier.
doing mental hygiene before social media.
Tiny things matter.
And the goal isn’t to become perfect at them.
It’s building rhythms you can realistically return to again and again in the season you’re actually living in.
Because sustainable growth is usually less about intensity…
and more about consistency. 🌿
let’s reclaim your summer, together.
We're halfway through the year, friend — and summer is the perfect season to pause + take inventory of where you're at + where you want to go in these next 6 months.
This is your moment to slow down + intentionally look at what's actually working + what's quietly draining you. To check whether your goals + your daily choices are in alignment with the life you're craving — and to lovingly adjust any methods, actions, or behaviors that aren't moving you closer to where you want to be.
Bc here's the thing: this isn't about doing more. It's about coming home to yourself + reclaiming what matters most before the season slips by.
So let's dive in 🌿🦩
And friends… I think this is important to remember as we wrap up today:
Reclaiming your summer is not one decision.
It’s not one perfect week.
It’s not one journaling session.
It’s not one podcast episode where suddenly everything clicks into place and you never drift again.
It’s the PROCESS. The JOURNEY. The RETURNING.
Life changes.
We change.
Seasons shift.
Priorities evolve.
The goal isn’t staying perfectly aligned forever.
The goal is learning how to notice when you’ve drifted too far from yourself… and having the awareness to gently come back.
That’s reclaiming.
And that’s really where this whole summer begins: with your WHY.
Not the version of life you think you “should” want.
Not the version everyone else online seems to be chasing.
Your actual life.
Your actual values.
Your actual energy.
Your actual priorities in this season.
Because if you don’t intentionally decide where your focus is going, life will decide for you. I have a quote in the RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER workbook that says “Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others; choices make us” and I love that so so much. It’s the heartbeat behind this week bc:
Your phone will decide.
Your schedule will decide.
Other people’s priorities will decide.
And before you know it, summer is over and you’re wondering where all your energy went.
That’s why the first section of the workbook is all about RECLAIMING YOUR WHY. It’s the foundation for everything to follow this summer.
We’re going to look at:
what a “default summer” looks like for you,
what areas of a well-rounded self are getting your best energy and attention,
what you want this season to actually feel like,
and where you intentionally want your focus to go moving forward.
Because awareness gives you choice. And choice gives you the opportunity to realign your life intentionally instead of continuing to live on autopilot.
And be sure to come back next week, bc we’re continuing the RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER series by talking about: ⚡️ RECLAIMING YOUR ENERGY.
Because once you reconnect with your WHY, you start noticing really quickly what’s fueling you… and what’s draining you.
What’s giving you life.
What’s taking your best energy.
What habits, people, routines, environments, and rhythms are supporting you — and which ones are quietly leaving you exhausted, distracted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself.
So if you want to walk through this whole process alongside me, the full RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER 🦩 Workbook + Companion Guide is linked in the show notes or head to inspirebeautybritt.com/reclaim to snag a copy and follow along with this series together.
Alright friends. I love you guys so much and I’m grateful for our time together. I’ll see you right here, next week, on The Self Care Sisterhood Podcast. 🤍
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