The world feels like a lot, and if you’re holding space for others, it’s even more important to practice these 5 grounded self-care practices for right now. Because true leadership starts with self-leadership—and you can’t support others from an empty, anxious place.
This post is for the woman who’s tired of fighting her way through the day. You don’t need a silent retreat or a perfect schedule. You need small, sustainable moments that help you feel like you again.
Let’s walk through five grounded practices that are practical, repeatable, and rooted in nervous system regulation.
1. Limit Your Information Intake
One of the most powerful self-care practices for right now is to decide when and how you engage with information. The world is loud. It’s full of crises, comment sections, and curated lives that leave you overstimulated and undernourished.
You get to have boundaries with the news and social media.
Try asking:
“What’s my capacity today?”
“Do I need this information, or am I numbing?”
Use tools like Freedom to limit access to distracting apps or set up “news-free” hours in your day.
🌀 Leadership impact: You teach others that it’s okay to unplug and protect your peace.
2. Move Emotions Through Your Body
Your body keeps the score so when emotions build up, they need somewhere to go. Suppressed emotion turns into anxiety, resentment, or exhaustion. Moved emotion turns into clarity and calm.
You don’t have to be a “fitness person.” Just move.
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Walk in nature
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Shake your arms and legs for 60 seconds (yes, like animals do after a threat!)
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Cry without apologizing
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Dance in your kitchen
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Journal what you’re feeling
- Stretch in your office space
If you need help processing emotions somatically, explore the free tools from Michele Lach and EFT Tapping.
🌀 Leadership impact: You lead from regulation, not reactivity and that changes the room you walk into.
3. Lean Into Nourishing Community
You’re not meant to carry it all alone. One of the most grounding practices is choosing not to isolate. Safe, supportive relationships can help you feel seen, soothed, and stabilized.
Make it easy:
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Send a “thinking of you” text
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Start a group thread for emotional check-ins
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Join a space where you don’t have to lead, teach, or manage
Need help finding safe community? Check out The Nap Ministry’s Collective Rest Events—a powerful space for healing and connection.
🌀 Leadership impact: You show that strength isn’t solitary—and leadership doesn’t mean loneliness.
4. Create Micro-Rituals of Peace
You don’t need 2 hours. You need 2 minutes.
Micro-rituals are simple, repeatable actions that tell your body: we are safe now.
Try:
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Drinking tea without your phone
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Lighting a candle as a signal to start or end your work
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Using a 1-minute guided breath reset to interrupt tension
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Putting on lotion slowly while noticing the sensations
These rituals help shift you out of fight-or-flight and into a regulated, creative state.
🌀 Leadership impact: You model nervous system regulation—something your team, kids, and community need to see.
5. Honor Your Capacity, Not Just Your Calendar
Self-leadership means asking:
“What can I truly hold today?”
Not: “What’s on my calendar?”
Your calendar doesn’t know your energy, your grief, or your body’s needs. That’s your job.
Some days, leadership looks like canceling the nonessential. It looks like saying “not right now” to the invitation, the meeting, or even the laundry.
If you’re unsure how to do this without guilt, read The Well Being Collective blog post on protecting your peace.
🌀 Leadership impact: You show that sustainability matters more than perfection—and that honoring your capacity is the most powerful boundary you can set.
Final Reflection:
These aren’t just self-care strategies—they’re leadership strategies.
When you unplug, process emotion, reach out, pause, and honor your limits, you create a ripple effect. You give others permission to do the same.
Start with one. Repeat it. Make it yours.
Because grounded leaders don’t wait for calm to come.
They create it—one small choice at a time.
