You wake up already tired, your coffee tastes like regret, and everything feels ten degrees off. You’re trying to be the resilient, high vibeyyyy, wellness girlie and instead you’re one deep sigh away from flipping your desk or crawling back under the covers. We get it. At Grit and Glow, we’re not here to pretend. Sometimes your mindset sucks and that’s the truth. Sometimes it’s not entirely your fault and it feels like your world is working against you.
Sometimes it’s not just the day, or week, it’s a longer term “EVERYTHING SUCKS RIGHT NOW!” mindset and that’s okay. It WILL get better.

Mindset isn’t magic. It doesn’t make you immune to bad days. It’s a tool.

You sharpen it by using it, especially when everything around you feels heavy. Somedays you will feel on top of your game and ready to take on anything or anyone that comes your way and other days you watch “I’m just a girl” tiktok’s and can completely identify with those vibes. So How can we at least survive all odds on the shitty days?

Here’s how to work with what you’ve got when the day is trying to take you out.

1. Move your body, even if it’s dramatic

Walk like you’ve just been wronged. Pace. Stretch. Hit a bag. Dance weirdly in your kitchen. You don’t need a gym. You need to let the energy out.

Movement changes your brain chemistry and helps you get out of the mental mud.

Backed by science: Movement and mental health

2. Breathe, but like you mean it

Box breathing. It’s not cute. It’s powerful.

Inhale for four
Hold for four
Exhale for four
Hold for four
Repeat at least three rounds

This isn’t about becoming calm and zen. It’s about creating space inside a storm. Become the Thunder and if the rain (tears) pour out it’s better than striking someone with a lightning like vengeance.

3. Touch Grass, Babe

Sit on the grass. Lie on your floor. Touch something solid and let your nervous system catch up. Grounding isn’t fluff. It pulls you back from the spiral and into your body.

Start here: Intro to somatic practices

4. Say something to someone or to no one

You don’t always need a perfect listener. Talk to a friend if you can. If not, open the Notes app and rage-type. Voice-note yourself. Yell into a pillow.
Get the chaos out of your head and into the world so it stops sitting on your chest.This is also way more effective than unleashing hell on somebody because you feel off.

To add onto this as well…Hold back for a little bit and re-read or listen to what you vented out before sending it to someone.
THE LAST THING you need is to write a formal apology for a rage text lol.

5. Feel it fully. Don’t fake it

Let yourself be pissed. Let yourself cry. Don’t fake fine just to look put together. Emotions are not problems to solve. They are experiences to ride through. Once you let yourself get comfortable with feeling the emotions you can figure out why you don’t feel good and then it actually closes a loop in your brain.
Don’t think of it like problem solving. Think of it like feel what comes from the feelings.

You are allowed to be not okay.

Look. Some days are a mess. That doesn’t mean you are. You don’t have to sparkle your way out of a hard moment. You just have to stay in it without disappearing.

That’s what Grit and Glow means. You grind through the rough days and give yourself space to come back stronger. Not softer, not sweeter. Stronger, clearer, and still here.

Save this for the next time you feel like slamming your laptop and quitting everything. Then get up. Walk it off.

Come back when you’re ready.