A concise list of everything I’m embracing and rejecting in 2025. 

Ins: 

• Shopping second hand / vintage 

• Peonies 

• Slowing down 

• Beach days 

• Green tea instead of coffee 

• Yoga 

• No phone 1hr after waking 

• No devices 1hr before bed 

• Marine collagen 

• Boundaries 

• Beach clean ups 

• Houseplants 

• Essential oils 

• Dancing in the kitchen 

• Meditation 

• Risk taking 

• Sunday resets. 

• Dinner parties at home 

• Quality over quantity 

• Self love rituals 

• Learning more about the world 

• Supporting small/local businesses 

• Dreaming big 

• Handwritten letters 

• Bees 

• Signature scent 

• Skincare 

• Gardening 

• Going to the library 

Outs

• Doom scrolling

• Saying “I will” and never doing the thing

• Dry skin 

• Fast fashion 

• FOMO 

• Impulse purchases 

• Bare minimum behaviour (how you treat yourself and how others treat you). 

• Under committing 

• Synthetic detergents

• Stress

• Anything / anyone that makes you feel less valuable than you are 

• Water wastage 

• Gossip

• Single use plastics 

• Toxic positivity 

• Staying up till 1am 

• Grudges 

• Toxic cleaning products 

• Buying the book and never actually reading it 

• Trying to control things we can’t

• Social media reliance

By Brooke