Analog Girl, Part 2: The Practice

I wrote about being an analog girl in a digital world about a year ago. And honestly, at the time it was mostly something I believed rather than something I was fully living. A value I held. An identity that felt true even if the practice hadn't fully caught up yet.

A lot has changed since then. Not dramatically. Not overnight. Just quietly, in the way real change actually happens the kind you don't notice until you look up one day and realize you're standing somewhere completely different from where you used to be.

If you know me, you know being in my own little world isn't new. This is just who I am when my spirit calls for it. But somewhere in the past year I stopped just believing in slowness and actually started building it. Day by day. Habit by habit. Without announcing it or making content out of it which honestly felt like its own kind of growth.

None of it is glamorous. Nobody is watching. There's no content in it. And that's exactly the point.

My mornings are slow now on purpose. I used to wake up and immediately reach for my phone, let the outside world set the tone for my day before I'd even taken a breath. Now I wake up and spend ten minutes in deep gratitude prayer just acknowledging that I have another day, because that alone is enough. Then I make my bed, stretch my body, hydrate, and spend five minutes on my vibration plate. There's a rhythm to it that I've built carefully and protect fiercely because I know how different I feel when I honor it versus when I don't.

My daily planner and budget planner have been part of my life for years but the way I use them has evolved. I'm not just filling in pages anymore. I'm being genuinely intentional about what goes in them streamlining, simplifying, letting them be tools that serve me instead of tasks that stress me out.

I meal prep on Sundays. I've curated a vitamin stack specifically for my body. I work out at home where nobody can see me struggle and I prefer it that way. I'm reading books again and I say again because I've always been a reader and a book collector, I just lost that part of myself for a while and I'm glad she's back. I take my ashwagandha every evening like the ritual it's become. Small, consistent choices that keep my nervous system calm and allow me to care for myself in a way I honestly never have before.

This is what the analog life actually looks like for me. Not aesthetic. Not curated. Just real.

I think about how much of everyday life is designed to pull you outward. Notifications. Noise. Trends. The quiet pressure to be visible constantly, to document everything, to perform your growth in real time. And I think about how much energy I used to spend moving in that direction not because it felt good but because it felt expected.

The life I've been building is a direct response to that. It's what happens when you stop performing your life and start actually living it the way you want to. When presence stops being something you write about and starts being something you practice at 6am in a quiet kitchen with a daily planner and an espresso with plant based creamer - same way, every single morning, no variation needed and no apologies about it.

Something I don't talk about much is how much I genuinely love the sameness of it all. I can eat the same meals on repeat, reset my space at the end of every day, and be in bed by 10pm like the homebody baddie I am. And I feel completely at peace with every single part of that because honestly this isn't new. I've always been this way. From a little girl alone in my room, coloring and journaling and daydreaming, I was already practicing this. Already choosing quiet over noise. Already myself when nobody was watching.

I'm not becoming someone new. I'm coming back home to myself.

And it feels exactly like I remembered.