This is the post where I recap what I’ve been doing throughout the week and share what I plan to post about next week. Starting in January 2023, I will be linking up Kim @ Caffeinated Reviewer and her weekly Sunday Post feature.

What Went Down This Week:

This week I tried something different, since I couldn’t keep going the way I have been. As I mentioned in my post last Sunday (Just Breathe), I really needed to focus on self care to try to get my mental health into a better place. So this week I stepped away from social media and focused on taking better care of myself. I incorporated deep breathing, stretching, meditation and a wake up routine this week. I plan to continue building on this throughout June.

I also decided to stop fighting against my current sleep cycle and embrace it while gradually adjusting my sleep and wake times. I started the week by being unable to fall asleep at night and not falling asleep until 2pm… this meant I woke up around 10pm and the cycle would just continue. So I decided to embrace that, but to try to stay awake a little later each day, but still allowing myself to sleep a full 8 hours, waking naturally. This should, hopefully, gradually shift things to where I am falling asleep later and later during the day and sleeping longer into the night. If this plan continues to work, I should be sleeping normally again in about a week and a half to two weeks. Along with that, I decided to just embrace my wake up time as though it were morning, eating breakfast and starting my day at night, and adjusting my meals accordingly. This should naturally shift with my sleep schedule as well and make sure that I am eating better.

Another positive note from this week is that my reading is pretty much back to normal after so few books completed in May. June should hopefully be much better, on all counts.

Posts from the Week:

Just Breathe
Reading Slumps
Top Ten Tuesday~ No Thank You
New to the Queue~ May 2023
Review~ Come On In
Friday Fun 6/2/23

Currently Reading:

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Junk Music and Guitar Dreams by T. James Logan
The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse
The Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick
Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren
Autism and the Stress Effect by Theresa Hamlin
Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket by Chris Grabenstein

Goodreads Giveaways Entered:

The Honeymoon Crashers by Christina Lauren
You, With a View by Jessica Joyce
This Spells Love by Kate Robb
Love at 350* by Lisa Peers
Artifacts of an Ex by Jennifer Chen
Something More by Jackie Khalilieh
Forty Words for Love by Aisha Saeed
Courting Samira by Amal Awad
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
Unnecessary Drama by Nina Kenwood

Coming Next Week:

I’m hoping for a review, plus my May reads, a summer book Top Ten Tuesday and some bookish Pride content.

All covers link to Goodreads, all thoughts and opinions are my own.