Back to Self: Reclaiming Routines After a Break

Life will always ask us to ebb and flow, to stretch and contract, to drift and to return. For a while, I stepped back. Not because I lost my love for writing, but because I was pouring myself into another creation—one I thought would be ready by now. Truthfully, it isn’t. I gave it my full attention, believing I only had space for one creative flame at a time. When it didn’t unfold on my timeline, I felt the ache of trying to control what can’t be forced.

That’s the gift this hiatus offered me: surrender. A reminder that creation has its own rhythm, that the seeds we plant bloom when they are meant to, not when we demand them to. And so, I return to my routines now with a softened heart, knowing they are not cages of productivity but circles of trust—small ways I stay present while life’s bigger mysteries unfold.

September feels like the perfect month for this kind of return. This season has been layered with portals and eclipses, stirring endings and beginnings all at once. On September 9th, the energy of completion rippled through—a frequency echoed by 2025 itself, a universal year 9. It is the energy of closure, of karmic doors gently shutting. Yet what follows is not emptiness, but possibility. This is the invitation: to step into a new timeline where the page is blank, where the only limit is what we dare to imagine.

My routines, then, are no longer just tasks on a checklist. They are anchors into this unfolding story. A morning ritual becomes a way of grounding into this timeline. A daily choice to show up gently becomes a whisper to the universe: I am ready for what’s next.

If you, too, are finding your way back, I invite you to meet yourself where you are:

Begin with tenderness. Choose one ritual to reclaim, and let it be an act of love rather than discipline. Release the timeline. Trust that your creations, your healing, your becoming, all unfold in divine time. Welcome the portal. See your routines not as obligations, but as sacred steps into a timeline brimming with possibility.

Coming back to self is never about perfection. It is about presence—choosing, again and again, to stand open at the doorway of what’s ending and what’s just beginning.

What timelines are you ready to release, and what new ones are you daring to step into on this blank slate?

With love and light,

Jojo – Cozy Moonchild ✨

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