17/11/2025
Sundays Activities
Soap making (…which nearly broke me 😅), a big bunch of calendula drying on the bench, jars and jars of rendered tallow, and some meal prep for my anti-inflammatory reset.
The first time I made soap it went smoothly — I had a friend guiding me and it worked perfectly. This time it had me questioning all my life choices 😂 It curdled, it looked wrong, it refused to trace… I was tempted to quit the whole low tox life situation, get a job somewhere and just buy everything. But with a lot of troubleshooting (thank you, ChatGPT 😁) it finally did what it was supposed to do.
It made me think
We often put things off because they seem “too hard.”
Sourdough felt too hard.
Pressure canning felt too hard.
Soap felt too hard.
Anything with complicated instructions can scare you off before you even start.
But sometimes I think we overthink things...
You learn as you go.
You make mistakes.
But it usually works out in the end and you can onlygrow in confidence by actually doing the thing.
So if there’s something you’ve been wanting to try… don’t overthink it, just give it ago.
What's something you'd love to give a go but have been putting off because it seems too hard?
