{"id":2429,"date":"2017-01-31T22:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/my-monday-night-ritual\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:11:48","slug":"my-monday-night-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/blog\/my-monday-night-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"My Monday Night Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWords: Christen Hammons<\/a><\/span>\n\t\n\tPhoto credit: Johanna Love<\/a><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n

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I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever met someone who likes Mondays. If you do, hats off to you, but I think you\u2019re one of the very few. My favorite day of the week is Thursday, but that\u2019s a story for another day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Most Mondays I wake up exhausted after a fitful night\u2019s sleep. I always seem to have trouble turning my brain off on Sunday nights and do more tossing and turning than anything else. I also usually spend any free time I have on Monday running errands I didn\u2019t get to over the weekend. It\u2019s not a great way to start the week, so I\u2019ve recently started a Monday night ritual that helps me settle a little better into the workweek.<\/p>\n

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Monday Mask Night started simply because I like giving rituals special names and I also love alliteration. I knew I had wanted to invest more time in my skincare routine and really love applying different masks. So, Monday Mask Night was born.<\/p>\n

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Each Monday night, just after my husband has gone to sleep, I get into my coziest pajamas, turn on one of my comfort shows (Gilmore Girls, Friends, and Golden Girls are my favorites), pour a glass of water or cup of tea, and apply a mask on my skin. My current go-to masks are those paper ones that make you look a little crazy when you put them on, but they feel so good.<\/p>\n

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The chill from the mask instantly relaxes me and my mind nearly comes to a complete stop. I zone in and out, sipping my beverage and occasionally shutting my eyes.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t make a lot of time for myself, but these 20 uninterrupted minutes of bliss are all mine. <\/em><\/p>\n

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What helps you survive a Monday? Share your Monday ritual with us in the comments.<\/p>\n

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  I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever met someone who likes Mondays. If you do, hats off to you, but I think you\u2019re one of the very few. My favorite day of the week is Thursday, but that\u2019s a story for another day.   Most Mondays I wake up exhausted after a fitful night\u2019s sleep. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,39,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-magic","category-health-wellness","category-lifes-beautiful-journey"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}