How to Build a Neurospicy Spoonie Morning Routine

So you’re neurospicy and/or a spoonie and you want to build an effective morning routine for yourself? By the end of this video you’ll know exactly how to do that, and more. 😉
Often, morning routine tips and morning routine examples are designed by and for “successful people” (aka able-bodied, mentally, healthy, and neurotypical people engaged in hustle culture). This time management advice leaves out us neuospicy spoonies and often makes us feel awful. What are WE supposed to do to care for ourselves in the morning? That’s what I’m talking about in this video.
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[@CassieWinter]

What is the purpose of your morning routine?

[@SpectrumOfChange]

This isn't quite an answer to your question (lol I am atyp after all) - but my mind was blown with Lazy Genius author Kendra Adachi saying that a routine is NOT rules and a set of things you do every day, but rather an ON RAMP to a FEELING STATE that you want to be feeling, so that you can then do the thing you're trying to do. Waaaaaaaaat 🤯😃🤯 It seems like this is a lot of what you're saying here, but in way more spoonie friendly terms. Which is brilliant. Thank you.

[@eacgrube8824]

Setting up my body/mind in healthy way to be able to have the most spoons i can :)

[@whiterabbittarotvideo]

I thought I was the only person who expressed my annoyance (with alarm, phone, internet, tv, people) by hissing. You'd think I was raised by feral cats. :) (also thank you for this video, I find that your content is always relatable and encouraging.)

[@BIBLE-a-s-m-r]

I hate green Alexa talks right when I’m having a moment

[@neoreoscar27]

Haha, the Windows 95 analogy is spot on! Made me laugh, thank you. I felt a bit emotional listening to you, it was like listening to a friend who ‘gets it’. I have been dismally and chaotically failing at life for too long with chronic illness…your realistic planning ideas are really helpful, thank you. I never felt like I could plan before because whenever I do, I fail. So I had given up trying to plan. Giving myself permission to tailor it to what I CAN manage and not trying to do what ‘normals’ can do - in other words, redefining what success is to me - is a game changer and I’ve no idea why I’ve not done that before. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Anyway, thank you and take care! X

[@CassieWinter]

Thank you for sharing! So glad I was able to help. And so proud of you for taking this important next step. You've got this! ❤️ Here to help if and when you need it.

[@BIBLE-a-s-m-r]

Mine is to empty my mind and feelings, then inspire them. So free write for 5 mins then listen to a beautiful string quartet piece while I hydrate. Then I get up and do hygeine and unload the dish washer. Then I spend my “work day” practicing my art skills for my future art small business. I haven’t seen much around in the capacity of self care for artists. I find beauty is my deepest form of self care. Candles; roses, art, music without interruption, poetry, and hearing humanity’s stories. Idk. In the world of practical activities eating our souls, something because it’s pretty helps

[@Hi_Im_Akward]

I just had someone recommend your channel to me. The conversation was about spoons and recognizing and budgeting energy. I'm already learning so much and can tell this will be a goo space for me. I am undiagnosed ADHD and Autistic. I have chronic pain, depression, anxiety, PTSD, chronic fatigue and just in general have been trying to live my life like a NT able bodied person when I'm not and going through continuous cycles of burnout and illness because of it. A lot of your stuff reminds me of DBT. I went through the program for a year and it honestly saved my life. I got a lot out if it, but it felt like the considerations and accommodations for Nurodivergant brains was not there. I recognize some of the things you're talking about but it's so refreshing to hear it be put into an accomidated way fit ND brains, something that was missing when I was in the program, and often felt like I was being pushed to "just be nurotypical". Thank you for what you're doing. I appreciate it.

[@kaz555]

Thank you! Those "successful morning" videos always left me wondering why I fail. Now I know they are not for me. Windows 95 analogy is spot on. This has helped me to make a new routine.

[@geneg3776]

For me the transitioning is tricky eg. going from work to say having to cook. Great vid thankyou

[@CassieWinter]

Transitions are so important! I talk more about them in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6S8dKJ-l9Kam9U

[@geneg3776]

@@CassieWinter Thankyou for the reply and link. Cheers😊

[@cutiefox6455]

Thank you. I’m not chronically ill, but I’m chronically tired 😅 So all this “jump out of bed as soon as you hear an alarm, make your bed every day, do a workout” does not help me at all. I relate to having to stay in bed for a longer time to gradually wake up, to snooze the alarm, to sit on the phone while in bed. Love the idea about opening up an inspiring feed. All this “do not use technology in the morning at all, it raises your dopamine, start with something productive” have never helped me. A great question you suggested - what is the goal of our morning routine? And I was surprised by my answer! That my goal is to have a good mood and to show myself that I can give myself treats and rewards whenever I want, even right after the wake up, I’m not a slave to always work for them and postpone them to the end of work, and also to give myself a reminder that there are fun and cool things in the world. After that with already a good mood it’s easier to get up and have energy! Thanks ❤

[@CassieWinter]

LOVE your why! Thank you for sharing. 🤩💖

[@TheLadyEnchanted]

Wonderful! I think my purpose is to help me feel good. Not to be efficient although that will help me be efficient but I’m not a machine. I’d like to start my day off by feeling good so I’m going to think and construct around that

[@CassieWinter]

❤️❤️❤️ Great work!

[@cutiefox6455]

Same

[@catsareawesome791]

My morning routine for the past few years has been the most basic, as I am permanently fatigued no matter how much I sleep I get or what I do the night before, and as I start work at 9am I need to be up by 7:30am: 1. Have coffee and watch youtube for 20-30 minutes 2. Get dressed, brush hair and brush teeth 3. Pack my lunch (lunch and a bunch of snacks I throw in) I really wanna do more, but I have limited energy, and I have found that morning routines out there (5am club, influencer routines etc) are exhausting. For many years I felt frustrated that I couldn't have my perfect morning routine, but as symptoms have worsened I have accepted that I can't do those routines and it's good enough for me to have a simple routine so that I'm ready for work.

[@glauciamsq]

I have two snooze alarms, actually, which gives me an hour of time I can either "sleep in" or do nothing in bed (usually I read my kindle). So that means if I have to be out of the house by 7am to work, I have to get up the bed by 6am, which means the first alarm is 5am. Works great. (But I do make sure to sleep 9pm tops)

[@eacgrube8824]

Thanks so much for sharing this! I really found a lot of solace and benefit in this

[@sofikat22]

I'm really appreciating your channel - I'm building back up after 18m serious illness and just reduced my scheduled rests, but I'm not "better", and I needed to hear that one size does not fit all - eg I have severe periodontal disease so teeth routine was top of my list.

[@minagica]

I'm watching and rewatching this. I will legit use this to build my own 👀👀👀

[@minagica]

I'm really hoping you're going to explain what you mean by "neurospicy" 🥺

[@CassieWinter]

Neurospicy is just slang for neurodivergent. 😊 It's become popular on TikTik and I love it. I prefer that as a label than the clinical "otherness" feeling neurodivergent gives me.

[@minagica]

@@CassieWinter sweet! I love it! 😍😍😍

[@SweetyHelen92]

What if you are having bellow 6 spoons for a week or two? How do you make your annoying brain wake up? 😢

[@CassieWinter]

If you haven't seen my 6 Muse Muscles class, which you can find on my website, I would recommend it. As I talk about radical acceptance in what I think is a unique way, and I think it would really help you when you're so low on spoons 💖

[@vickifrederick2934]

The truly intelligent realize that they should communicate in language that can be understand by a third grader!

[@user-vg4ox6mi5w]

I have a very foggy brain in the mornings too. Can’t figure out it yet, I can do running and etc it works at some degree, but still not quite waked, even after that 🥲 and I feel guilty about 1-1,5 hours passively scrolling on phone cause even when I finally waked I get sucked in internet and I can’t focus after that on important things. recently I find some close thing: started using app for learning language and it works as good as scrolling, I dunno why, maybe because the tasks is very easy even for my sleepy brain, it has a gameplay etc, and you just need to push buttons :) and listening some KZbin about language is guilt free and useful even in passive mode.

[@user-vg4ox6mi5w]

Not sure if it will be working for long, but I’m glad it works now

[@user-vg4ox6mi5w]

Windows95 computer association is hilarious 😆 will use it in need of explaining how brain fog works)