Romanticizing Your Life: Finding Joy in Ordinary Moments | Ep. 80

Let's explore the concept of "romanticizing your life" through finding joy in small moments, being intentionally present, and cultivating gratitude for everyday experiences. This episode reveals simple yet powerful ways to transform ordinary routines into meaningful rituals that enhance wellbeing and create daily magic.

• Discovering the power in small moments
• Defining what it means to romanticize your life through presence and gratitude
• Recognizing when you're living in an answered prayer
• Creating intentional self-care experiences
• Simple ways to add beauty to your day through mindful walks, thoughtful food presentation, and connecting with nature

I challenge you to find one way to romanticize your life today!

Laugh more and play often. Make time for fun in your life as it releases endorphins that improve both mental and physical health. Please rate and review the show, share this podcast with a friend, and let me know how romanticizing your life impacts you!

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Theme Music:
She No Dull Beat by Nana Kwabena
Festivities in Belize by RAGE Productions

Chapters

• 0:00 Episode Introduction & Wellness Tip
• 3:50 Power of Small Moments
• 5:59 Defining Life Romanticization
• 7:18 Valentine's Day Self-Care Example
• 9:17 Simple Ways to Add Beauty Daily
• 11:11 Episode Closing & Call to Action

Transcript

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:21

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Aliya Cheyanne: 1:51

Now, april is National Minority Health Month, so before we jump into today's topic, I want to share a quick wellness tip that aligns with the episode, and that is laugh more and play often. Play and joy are essential for well-being, and laughter and fun impact mental and physical health for the better. Laughter, in particular, releases endorphins that improve mental health. So make time for fun. Now let's get into today's topic Romanticizing your life how to cultivate more joy and magic daily.

Aliya Cheyanne: 2:29

There is so much power in small moments. For me. I love the feeling of holding a hot cup of tea between my hands, the first sip that's just at the right temperature, not enough to burn the roof of my mouth or my tongue, but warm enough to warm me up. The taste of my favorite flavors the spearmint and a little dash of honey, is so satisfying to me the joy in starting my day and saying to my dog, stormy Girl, okay, it's time to start our day, and we both hop to it her anticipation when it's time to go on a walk and her excitement and eagerness to go outside and sniff around. The incredible mood booster that the sun is and how its warmth can literally change how I feel and unravel me in ways that feel so necessary the softness of my favorite robe against my skin, or how pretty I feel at the end of the night once I've done my nighttime routine and have a chance to glance in the mirror. There's so much power in small moments that feel good and that help us to romanticize our lives and cultivate more joy and magic in our day-to-day. So what does it mean to romanticize your life?

Aliya Cheyanne: 4:37

When folks say that, they don't mean to turn it into a rom-com, no, it's simpler than that. It means finding small joys and being intentionally present in the moment, having appreciation and deep gratitude, moment by moment, and recognizing when you are and recognizing when you are and recognizing when you're living in an answered prayer. Leading up to taking the leap with my consulting work, one of the things that I said all the time was that I wanted to be able to spend more time with my grandmother and with my dog. I didn't want to have to sacrifice so much time commuting far distances or sacrificing all of my time constantly working, and being able to create more leisure and more spaciousness in my days has been really transformative for how I've been able to spend time with the folks who matter most to me. Romanticizing my life these days is being grateful for answered prayers, being grateful for bringing to life what I spoke over myself, and daydreaming about what's to come. Romanticizing my life has also meant being really present.

Aliya Cheyanne: 5:56

I mentioned previously on the podcast that I'm in the process of writing a book, and I'm super excited for that project to be coming out very soon. If you missed that episode, it's episode 69, why Singleness is a Gift, even if society says it's not. And something else I talk about in the book that I didn't mention in that episode is how I romanticized one Valentine's Day in particular. It was during a Valentine's Day that I really wanted to pour some extra TLC into myself, so I literally did everything in my power that would make me feel special and loved. On that day, I took a virtual siren flow class by Nat Naya, who owns Naya's Valley and who leads Siren Flow classes in person and virtually A movement practice meant to reconnect you with your body through touch and through movement. It was so special to take it on Valentine's Day. I made sure the lighting and the mood was right in my space and after doing that I set up some refreshments. And after doing that I set up some refreshments for myself and some wine. I set up some refreshments for myself and some wine, grabbed a book, ran myself a bubble bath and just soaked for a while and enjoyed some snacks and read and steamed and enjoyed it. It felt so great to show up for myself in that way, and that is an example of using that small moment to feel really connected to myself. It added beauty to my day on a day when I really needed it, and now I get to write about how impactful that was, in every single detail about it, and share it in a larger creative project.

Aliya Cheyanne: 7:52

Adding beauty to your life and romanticizing your life can be very simple. It could be taking a new path in a way that you typically walk to and from work and noticing the architecture around you, the scene, the nature, the sounds of children playing or the sound of dogs barking, it could be noticing a loving couple walking by in a quick embrace. Adding beauty to your day could mean being intentional about how you plate your food, adding more color, more texture to your plate, maybe with an edible flower or a new topping you haven't tried before. Adding beauty to your day could mean taking a mental health walk and getting some fresh air outside of your home, outside of the building that you work in or the space that you work in, and reconnecting with the neighborhood or the city around you. Adding beauty to your life could mean gardening in whatever way might be possible for you right now. Maybe that's growing something indoors or on a fire escape, or on a balcony or a porch or a backyard or in a community garden. It could look like connection with friends when you haven't had that in a while.

Aliya Cheyanne: 9:08

There are so many ways to add beauty to your life and to romanticize it and to make the small, mundane moments more powerful and more impactful. So I challenge you to find one way to romanticize your life today and to be sure to try out this week's wellness tip and let me know how it impacts you. Let me know in a review or in a text to the show. Thank you so much for tuning in to another short but sweet episode. If this episode resonated with you, please be sure to tell a friend. To tell a friend and to rate and review the show wherever you're listening to it right now. Thank you for lending me your time, your energy and your ears. I appreciate you for being here. Have a great rest of your day or night and I'll catch you on the next episode. Bye.