Promptly Unhinged: What Does Your Bare Minimum Self-Care Look Like?

guiding chaos, one prompt at a time

Not every day is a spa day.

Some days, self-care looks like brushing your teeth and drinking a glass of water before collapsing back onto the couch like a Victorian ghost.

This prompt is about finding your bare minimum viable care plan—not the Pinterest version of self-care, but the version that actually keeps you afloat.

No gold stars required. Just survival-mode compassion.

Your Turn:

• What’s the absolute minimum you need to feel human(ish)?

• Think about sleep, hydration, food, meds, movement, boundaries, screen time—what’s your checklist?

• Do these things actually help? Or are there swaps you need to make?

• What’s one tiny thing that gives you 5% more capacity?

You’re not lazy. You’re recalibrating.

Let’s get radically honest about the tiny things that actually keep us going.

(And maybe put “lie on floor” at the top of the list.)

Just me, journaling in my car because that’s where the chaos paused for 5 minutes.

Sometimes self-care isn’t candles or routines—it’s scribbling a few thoughts in a parked car between life stuff.

This is my bare minimum care today. A pen, a prompt, and a moment to breathe.

Journal wherever you are. It counts.S

hare yours and tag me: @find.balance.with.monica