It’s the start of a new year, and in the whirlwind of beginnings, back-to-school and chaos, we all need to check in with ourselves this month. To help us do that, an award-winning Capetonian writer has written a guide to a Self-Reset.
Karin Schimke is a poet, editor and translator who also writes essays and features. Taking to Substack, an online platform for writers and readers, Schimke began a new publication in early 2022: the Love Letters.
As she says, her monthly Love Letter “is not about work – it’s about the things and people [she] loves.”
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As the Love Letters grew, Schimke expanded her publication to include new sections available to subscribers based on how much they themselves were able to contribute.
The Love Letters continue to be free, but along with other exclusivities, paid members get access to the Self-Reset.
Schimke says the Self-Reset was born thanks to the fact that “by the end of the year, I have often forgotten who I am or what the plan is or where I’m going or what I wanted when I last had time to think about that.”
“So I often use January to gather all my bits together and figure out what I want next,” Schimke explains.
“I have created Self-Reset as a way to find my way back to a path that makes sense at the beginning of each year.”
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The Self-Reset is a 30-day course written by the author in which you are guided through a series of exercises and fun activities to help you check in with yourself.
“Self-Reset is a daily combination of useful questions that allow you to consider where you currently are in your life, and where you’d like to get to next. It’s not ‘heavy’, but it is serious,” Schimke explains.
“Along with those daily questions that are aimed at working on the fundamentals of where you are right now, and establishing what you want next, there are exercises to help you see inside your brain or heart and a daily exercise in doing or making something small and easy for no reason other than that making something always makes me happy.”
“Everything in Self-Reset is low-stakes. You can dip in and out (no one is marking you), choose only to do some of the creative exercises, or choose only the serious questions (which are in bold).”
You can sign up to do the Self-Reset, or subscribe to the Love Letters, here.
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