We see all this talk about the perfect morning routine and how to super fuel are mornings to super charge our day.
What an awesome concept, right?
Wait.
If you have adrenal fatigue, mornings can be really difficult.
It is really common to struggle with insomnia through the night, waking up and then feeling too wired to fall back asleep. When you finally do fall back asleep (usually in the early morning hours) it’s often just in time for your alarm to jostle you out of a sleep that feels as deep as the deepest sea.
Trust me, I know how hard it can be to shake yourself out of that when your alarm starts going off.
When I was struggling with stage 3 adrenal fatigue, I used to think not even an icy bucket of water thrown on me would have helped. In those days, I’d grumble to my boyfriend to “ START THE ENGINE” (coffee machine) and you can imagine how the morning went from there.
The experts on social media kept telling me to do stuff like this:
Get up an hour before my alarm and meditate
Get some exercise in
Do something for you
Spend time in quiet, journaling and feeling gratitude
HECK, I’m pretty sure we even tell you to do this sort of stuff from time to time.
I KNOW in theory a morning filled with self-care would be incredible and soul nourishing and that it would totally make me a more calm and happy person. I totally get it the concept.
But guys, if a bucket of ice water wasn’t going to get me out of bed, neither was the potential idea of feeling more blissed out in my day if it meant sacrificing an hour of sweet, sweet morning sleep (which according to Dr. James Wilson has been said to be some of the most adrenal nourishing sleep for burnt-out people).
Nowadays, things are different and I have become a morning person once again, but I remember the struggle. When I speak to clients, they can relate to this too.
Today, I want to share my 5 minute morning adrenal care routine— it’s the same routine I use these days if I have to be up really early for coaching calls or don’t have a lot of time or space to myself.
It’s the way I capitalized on sleep while STILL taking measures to implement some self-care into my morning.
Check out my walk-through video of my 10 Minute Morning Routine for Burnt-out People here.
