Soft Mornings & Other Forms of Quiet Power

Taking your power back after a life with trauma, is more subtle than you might think.

Hello cycle breaker & softness enthusiast,

Can we talk about the subtle power of slow mornings for a moment?

This morning, I sat by my living room window with a warm mug in my hand and the scent of my small but mighty basil and rosemary plants filling the air.

I didn’t rush to check my phone, but I did spend some time reflecting on the (years) that I spent conditioning my brain to relentless dopamine hits by going straight into social media at the top of the morning.

But these days have been different. Intentionally different.

These days, I just sit in the quiet of my home. Interestingly, this pace feels more productive than my frenzied morning routines. This pace is simple and soft…and it allows me to sort through my thoughts better than those overwhelming mornings ever did.

For those of us with trauma histories…especially intergenerational ones…slowness can feel unsettling at first. We’re often descendants of people who didn’t have the luxury of soft mornings…who woke up to scarcity, to urgency, to grief, with a level of deep immediacy attached to it.