Your RECLAIM Q's Answered 💬 (+ a quick end of month reflect + prep)
This one's a little different, friend. 🌿 We're wrapping up the first month of RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER, + instead of a regular series episode, we're doing a reflect, prep, + Q&A all in one — closing the container on everything we walked through together + answering the real questions you've been sitting with. We're looking back at month one, doing a gentle reflect + prep to carry the work forward without pressure, + then i'm honestly answering the things you've been asking — what to do when life interrupts your good intentions, how to know something's working when the changes feel small + quiet, + what reclaiming looks like on a hard week when you've got nothing left to give. And if you're just finding this series? You are NOT too late. Start wherever you are — it'll meet you there. Grab the RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER Workbook + Companion Guide + do this work right alongside me all season. 🌿
In this post we'll chat thru…
✻ A look back at month one — the mid-year reset, reclaiming your energy, + the two-part wellness conversation
✻ A gentle reflect + prep to carry the work into the next month without pressure
✻ How to come back when life interrupts your good intentions — without starting over
✻ Cycle syncing — what it actually looks like across all four phases
✻ The "future you" mentality, weekly Life Admin resets, + how to hold momentum when summer gets chaotic
LET'S DIVE IN. 🖤
Hello hello friends and welcome back to The Self Care Sisterhood Podcast. ☀️
If you're tuning in for the first time — welcome. I am so genuinely glad you're here.
And if you've been walking through our RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER series with me this month — hey friend. We made it through together. 🌿🦩
Before we dive in I just want to take a second and acknowledge something.
You showed up.
Maybe not perfectly. Maybe not consistently. Maybe you listened to one episode and then life happened and you're just now catching up. Maybe you grabbed the workbook and it's still sitting on your desk unopened. Maybe you've been in it every single week and you can already feel something shifting.
All of it counts. All of it is reclaiming. And I mean that.
Now — if you just stumbled across this episode and have no idea what I'm talking about, first of all hi, I'm so glad the algorithm brought you here. 😄 Let me catch you up real quick.
RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER is a 12 week podcast series I'm running all summer long — and honestly into the fall if that's when you find it — designed to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself, and move through this season with more intention, presence, and support. Each month has a theme. Month one is about setting the tone. Month two is about softening and savoring. Month three is about rooting and rising.
And here's what I really want you to hear if you're just finding this:
You are not too late.
There is no behind in this series. You can start right now, today, wherever you are, and it will still be worth it. The episodes will still be here. The workbook — which is your 55 page companion guide for the whole series — is still available at inspirebeautybritt.com/reclaim. You can grab it today and start working through it alongside us for the rest of the summer. Or the fall. Whenever you need it.
This series isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.
And one quick note before we dive in — if you're listening to this in real time, we're wrapping up our first month together, which for us is June. But if you found this series later, in July or September or honestly whenever — don't get hung up on the calendar. The months are just the structure I built this around. What actually matters is that you're closing out your own first month of this work, whenever that is for you. So everywhere I say "month one" just hear wherever you are. This episode is for you no matter when you press play.
Okay. Now that everyone's caught up — today's episode is a little different from our regular series episodes. This is our first bonus episode — something I'm doing at the end of each month of the series as a way to close the container of what we just walked through together.
We're going to do three things today:
First — we're going to reflect on this first month together. What did we cover? What landed? What are you still sitting with?
Second — we're going to prep for the month ahead. What's coming next and how do we carry the work forward without pressure?
And third — I'm answering your questions. Real ones. The kind that don't have simple yes or no answers but deserve real honest conversation.
So grab your coffee or your water or whatever you're sipping on and let's do this. 🌿
PART ONE: REFLECTING ON MONTH ONE
Our first month was all about setting the tone — SET THE TONE.
And I chose that theme intentionally because I think so many of us arrive at summer already running. Already behind. Already trying to catch up to a version of the year we thought we'd be living by now.
SET THE TONE was an invitation to pause before charging forward.
Here's what we covered:
We started with The Mid Year Reset — because before we could reclaim anything we needed to get honest about where we actually were. Not where we thought we should be. Not where we were in January. Where we are right now. We used the GROWTH framework to look at the first half of the year with compassion instead of criticism and we cast vision for what the second half could look like.
Then we talked about Reclaiming Your Energy — because energy is the thing. It's the currency of your life. And most of us are spending it without ever auditing where it's actually going. We talked about energy givers and energy leaks and the seven areas of your life you have more influence over than you probably realize.
And then we spent two weeks on Reclaiming Your Wellness — first by talking about the six simple habits that actually support me and then by having an honest conversation about when wellness starts working against you instead of for you. The weighted vest vs the life jacket. That one felt important.
So that's our first month. That's what we built together.
And now I want to invite you to do something before we move into prep and Q&A.
Take sixty seconds — literally just sixty seconds — and ask yourself:
What from this month actually landed for me?
Not what you wish you'd done. Not what you didn't finish. What landed. What shifted even slightly. What's still sitting with you.
Because awareness is always the first step. And if something from this month is still sitting in your chest — that's not unfinished business. That's the work doing its work.
PART TWO: THE REFLECT + PREP
Okay. Let's do a quick but meaningful reflect and prep together.
If you have your RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER workbook — this is a great moment to open it to the notes pages in the back. And if you don't have the workbook yet — it's not too late. We have two full months of this series ahead and it pairs with every single episode. You can grab it at inspirebeautybritt.com/reclaim.
REFLECT
Five reflection questions for this past month.
One: Where did I show up for myself this month — even imperfectly? Look for the evidence. Check your camera roll. Look at your calendar. The moments are there even if they felt small.
Two: Where did I drift? And answer this without judgment. Drifting isn't failure. Drifting is human. The question isn't whether you drifted — it's whether you noticed. Noticing is the skill we're building.
Three: What was I carrying this month that made it harder to show up for myself? Sometimes the reason we fell off isn't laziness. Sometimes we were carrying something heavy and didn't put it down first. Name it. Give it language.
Four: What surprised me about myself this month? Sometimes we show up in ways we didn't expect. We find a habit that sticks. We discover we're more resilient than we thought. What surprised you?
Five: How do I want to feel by the end of next month? Not what do you want to accomplish. How do you want to feel. Let that be your compass.
PREP
Now let's prep for the month ahead.
But before we look ahead, I want to name something I keep hearing from women lately — honestly, in passing conversations at the coffee shop.
So many of us start summer thinking we have all this time. Like summer stretches out in front of us, wide open and slow and full of possibility. And then somehow... we blink. And it's already filling up. The calendar fills. The to-dos pile on. The weeks start flying by. And suddenly we're staring down the back half of summer wondering where it went and whether we actually enjoyed any of it.
Anyone else feel that? Please tell me I'm not alone. 😅
Here's the thing — summer doesn't slip away because we don't have time. It slips away because we stop being present for it. We're so busy getting through it that we forget to actually be in it.
And that's exactly why this next month's theme matters so much.
Month two is our SOFTEN + SAVOR month.
And I want you to hear that theme for a second because I think it might be exactly what a lot of us need after the first half of the year.
Soften. Savor.
Now — I know some of you just heard "soften and savor" and thought, okay but HOW? How do I soften and savor when summer is way more full than I thought it would be? When the open space I imagined is already packed?
And here's my answer: we do it on purpose.
Softening and savoring isn't something that happens to us when life magically slows down. Because life doesn't magically slow down. We have to choose it. Intentionally. In the middle of the full calendar and the busy weeks and the season that's moving faster than we expected. That's the whole practice. Choosing presence on purpose.
We're going to talk about reclaiming your wonder — because somewhere along the way a lot of us stopped letting ordinary things feel extraordinary. We're going to talk about reclaiming your light — stepping out of pressure and back into play. And we're going to talk about reclaiming your calm — nervous system care, the stress cycle, and what it actually means to feel safe in your own body again.
This next month is going to ask you to soften your grip a little. To stop white knuckling it through the season and start actually being present inside it.
So as you prep, ask yourself three questions:
Where in my life am I holding on too tight right now?
What would it feel like to soften there — even just a little?
What is one thing I want to actually savor this month? Not accomplish. Savor.
And practically — look at your calendar. Where is margin? Pick one non negotiable for your wellness this month. Just one. And give yourself permission to go slower than you think you should. Soften and savor doesn't work at a sprint.
PART THREE: YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Let's get into your questions. The real ones.
Q1: What do you do when you start something with great intentions and then life interrupts? How do you find your way back without starting over from scratch?
Oh this one. This is the one I think most of us need permission around.
Here's what I want you to know first: interruption is not failure. Interruption is just life doing what life does.
We live in this all or nothing culture where if we miss a week or fall off a habit we decide the whole thing is over and we have to start from the beginning. And that thinking is what keeps us starting over forever.
You don't start over. You just start again from where you are.
There's a massive difference between those two things. Starting over means going back to the beginning. Starting again means picking up the thread right where you dropped it.
So if you listened to episode one and then disappeared for three weeks and you're just now coming back — you are not behind. You are exactly where you are. And exactly where you are is the right place to begin again.
The practical thing I do when I've drifted is ask one question: what is the smallest possible thing I could do today that would feel like showing up for myself?
Not the most impressive thing. The smallest thing. Drink the water. Take the walk. Open the workbook to one page.
One small thing done consistently builds more momentum than a perfect plan you abandoned. Come back. That's it. Just come back.
Q2: How do you actually know if something is working when the changes feel small and quiet rather than dramatic?
This one is so good because I think we've been conditioned to only trust dramatic results. Before and afters. Ten pounds in thirty days.
Real sustainable change almost never looks like that.
Real change looks like: you snapped less at your husband this week. You went to bed on time three nights in a row without thinking about it. The anxious spiral that usually lasts three days only lasted one. You chose the walk because you wanted to, not out of guilt.
That's the work working.
The metric I use is: how do I feel inside my life right now compared to a month ago? Not how do I look. Not what did I accomplish. How do I feel inside my actual daily life.
Small quiet changes are the most powerful kind because they're the ones that stick. They're not built on motivation or willpower. They're built into who you're becoming.
Trust the quiet shifts. They last.
Q3: What does reclaiming actually look like on a hard week — when everything is overwhelming and you have nothing left to give?
Honestly? On a hard week reclaiming looks like the bare minimum done with intention.
I want to be real because I think we put wellness on a pedestal where it only counts if you're doing all the things consistently with a great attitude and a full tank. That's not real life.
Real life is a hard week at the shop running on fumes. Real life is a week where your hormones are doing their thing and your body feels like it belongs to someone else.
On those weeks reclaiming looks like drinking your water even when everything else falls apart. Going to bed instead of doom scrolling. A ten minute walk instead of a forty five minute run because ten minutes is what you have. Saying no to one thing. Asking for help instead of white knuckling it alone.
The Best Self Choices framework exists exactly for this. On a hard week I'm not asking what the ideal version of wellness looks like. I'm asking what would genuinely support me right now with the energy I actually have.
Sometimes the most radical act of reclaiming on a hard week is this: you chose yourself in some small way when everything in you wanted to abandon yourself completely. That's enough. That's more than enough.
Q4: What do you do when wellness starts feeling like one more thing you're failing at instead of something supporting you?
Put it down. I mean that.
If your wellness practice has become a source of shame, guilt, or self criticism — it has stopped being wellness. It has become a weighted vest. And we know what weighted vests do. They make everything harder.
The question I ask is: where did I start treating this like a performance instead of a practice? Because wellness was never meant to be performed or measured against. It was meant to support your actual life.
When it starts feeling heavy I strip it all the way back. What is the most basic thing I could do today that would make me feel even slightly more cared for? Water. Sunlight. Movement I enjoy. One nourishing meal. Sleep. Start there.
And if wellness keeps feeling like failure, it might be time to look at the standards you've set. Often the reason we feel like we're failing isn't that we're failing — it's that we set expectations that were never realistic for the season we're in.
Compassion before correction. Always.
Q5: How do you hold onto momentum when summer gets chaotic — travel, schedules off, routines disrupted?
So real and so summer specific. Summer is actually one of the hardest seasons to maintain rhythms because the structure that holds everything together just disappears.
Here's what I've learned: momentum doesn't require your full routine. It just requires a thread.
If you can find one thing — one anchor habit — that you carry through the chaos, it keeps the connection alive. It keeps you tethered to yourself even when everything else is swirling.
For me that anchor is usually movement. Even a twenty minute walk in a city I'm traveling in. Even ten minutes of yoga in a hotel room. Movement keeps me connected to my body and my body keeps me connected to myself.
Your anchor might be different. Your morning journaling. Your water. A five minute check in before bed.
Find your one thread and hold onto it. Everything else can flex. That one thing stays. And when you come home, you'll find it's so much easier to rebuild when you never fully let go.
Q6: How do you move into the next month of this without putting pressure on yourself to do it perfectly?
Remind yourself why you started. Not the polished version. The real one.
You started because something wasn't working. Because you were tired in a way you couldn't explain. Because you wanted to feel more like yourself. Because you deserved a summer that actually felt like something.
That why doesn't require perfection. It just requires presence.
The next month doesn't need a new you. It just needs you to keep showing up honestly for the you that already exists.
Go into it with one intention instead of ten goals. One word. One feeling. One thing you're moving toward. Let that be your compass. Trust that small consistent steps will do more than a perfectly executed plan ever could.
Q7: Talk to me about cycle syncing — what does it actually look like practically across the four phases?
I love this question because cycle syncing sounds complicated when it's really just learning to work with your body instead of against it.
Quick overview — your cycle has four phases and each one comes with hormonal shifts that affect your energy, mood, strength, creativity, and capacity. When you understand those shifts you can stop fighting your body and start supporting it.
Here's how I practically experience each phase:
Menstrual phase — your period. Hormones at their lowest. Energy lower. This is rest and restore for me. Yin yoga, gentle walks, softer movement. Warm nourishing foods. I protect my schedule and give myself permission to go inward. Not the week to launch something big.
Follicular phase — the week or so after your period. Estrogen rising. Energy back. Creativity and motivation pick up. My best phase for starting things, hard conversations, planning, creating, trying new workouts. Higher intensity movement feels good. My best deep work happens here.
Ovulatory phase — around the middle. Estrogen peaks. You feel energized, confident, communicative, magnetic. Great for social things, important conversations, showing up publicly, recording. Not the time to hide.
Luteal phase — the two weeks before your period. Progesterone rises then both hormones drop. Energy wanes. You might feel more sensitive, more inward, more irritable if you're not supporting yourself. This is where PMS lives. Strength based movement early, gentler movement later. I eat more — my body needs more fuel here and ignoring that leads to cravings and crashes. I protect my social energy and get ahead on tasks early before my energy drops.
The practical takeaway: you're not the same person every day of the month. And when you stop expecting yourself to perform the same every single day, you stop feeling like you're constantly failing. Work with your body. It's not working against you. It's asking to be understood.
Q8: Walk us through your future you mentality when it comes to prepping for the week.
One of my favorite frameworks. The core idea: the choices I make today are a gift or a burden to future me.
So when I'm making decisions I ask: what would make Tuesday me really happy right now?
That question changes everything. On Sunday night I'm not just thinking about what I want to eat tonight. I'm thinking about what Wednesday morning me is going to need when she wakes up at 5:30 and has to be at Crave by 6:30.
Practically: overnight oats prepped Sunday so there's no decision fatigue on a Crave morning. Lunches packed so I'm not under fueling in a rush. Workouts roughly mapped so I'm not negotiating every morning. House reset Friday so I start the week calm. Groceries ordered so the food is there.
None of these are complicated. But the difference between doing them and not is the difference between a week that feels supported and a week that feels like catching up.
Future you is a real person who deserves to be considered. She's just you, a few days from now, walking into whatever you've set up for her. Set her up well.
Q9: Talk to us about Life Admin — what it is, why it matters, and how a weekly reset gives your life a place to come back to baseline.
Life Admin is my weekly reset day and it might be one of the most underrated wellness practices I have.
When the basic infrastructure of your life is chaotic, everything gets harder. Your nervous system is always slightly elevated because there's always something undone.
Life Admin is the practice of tending to the infrastructure so your nervous system can rest.
For me it's every Friday. Meal planning. Grocery order. Laundry. House reset — everything back in its home. Plants watered. Admin handled. A workout because movement is non negotiable for me.
And here's why it matters beyond a clean house: when your environment is ordered, your mind has more space. When food is planned, your energy is protected. When laundry is done, there's one less thing running in the background of your brain.
Life Admin is essentially telling your nervous system: everything is okay. The basics are handled. You can relax now.
Give your life a place to come back to baseline every week. It will change how everything else feels.
Okay friends. That's our bonus episode.
I am so proud of you for showing up this month. For pressing play even when life was full. For doing even one small thing that moved you back toward yourself. That's reclaiming.
The next month of the series starts next week and I genuinely cannot wait to walk through SOFTEN + SAVOR with you.
And one more time before I let you go — if you are just finding this series, or you've been listening but haven't grabbed the workbook yet — hear me clearly:
You are not too late.
This series runs all summer and every episode lives right here whenever you're ready. The workbook is your companion for the whole journey. You can start today, this week, this month, and it will meet you exactly where you are. inspirebeautybritt.com/reclaim — it's there waiting for you. 🌿🦩
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I love you guys. I'll see you next Monday on The Self Care Sisterhood Podcast. 🌿🦩🤍
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