A Reminder to Take Your Soul Vitamins
Less burnout. More nourishment.
TL;DR: Do more of what you love.
We’re absorbing more than we were ever meant to carry.
We’re surrounded by information, but starved for peace.
Doomsday headlines echo through our consciousness like a horror film on loop. Politics and angst seem to seep into everything—friendships, entertainment, celebrations, family dinners.
Outrage is the default. Silence feels like betrayal.
And yet…
I’m not here to tell you to disengage. I care deeply about this world, and I’m sure you do, too.
But I am here to offer a gentle reminder:
You can’t metabolize the world’s grief on an empty soul.
The news cycle doesn’t just inform us; it often depletes us. Social media rewards outrage and performance, not presence or perspective.
It floods our brains with urgency, steals our attention, and leaves us wondering why we feel so scattered and low.
We absorb tragedy after tragedy—things we often can’t do anything about. We witness strangers arguing in comment sections we never meant to read. We scroll past 30-second videos of pure despair, then jump straight to an ad for skincare or a meme about burnout.
We tell ourselves it’s good to “stay informed,” as if information alone makes us better, wiser, more moral. But so often, what we’re left with isn’t clarity, action, or direction. It’s exhaustion, disorientation, and a rising tide of rage with nowhere to go.
That’s why we have to nourish ourselves—intentionally, consistently, and without apology.
Before we burn out, numb out, or lash out, we need replenishment.
I call them soul vitamins.
They’re not productivity hacks. They won’t fix your life or pay your bills. But they will give you strength when everything feels heavy. They’ll help you remember who you are when the world tries to flatten you into a reductive persona or a crisis-response machine.
What are soul vitamins?
Soul vitamins are the invisible nutrients that keep your spirit alive. They’re the things that remind you you're a human being before you're a headline reader, a content creator, or someone trying to hold it all together.
Soul vitamins are different for everyone, but they tend to have a few things in common:
They restore you—calming you, energizing you, or both.
They reconnect you to beauty, or inspire a sense of awe.
They make you feel more like you.
In short:
Soul vitamins are the things you love—that also nourish you.
Mine include:
Carefully curating and listening to music playlists
Writing music, songs, and lyrics
Working on passion projects
Having meaningful calls and meetups with friends who inspire me
Absorbing art in some way (museums, galleries, films, etc.)
Working hard at the gym (and taking my time)
Watching planes take off and land
Spending time with animals
Planning trips and traveling
Reading a few chapters of a book that I’m excited about
Writing posts like this 😊
Sometimes these things are cinematic acts of intentional magic. Other times, they’re quiet and barely visible to others, like rituals and small acts of presence. But they always nourish something inside me the world might not see—but that I need to keep going.
Yours will be different. That’s the point.
Soul-starvation doesn’t always announce itself.
Sometimes it creeps in quietly, like hours of mindless scrolling, or snapping at someone you love because you haven’t had a moment to yourself in days. You’re tired, but not in a way sleep can fix. You feel disconnected, uninspired, and brittle. The smallest things feel louder than they should.
You might lose your sense of humor, start ghosting people you care about, or catch yourself thinking, what’s the point in anything?—even when everything looks fine on the outside.
I’ve been there.
When we’re spiritually undernourished, we lose access to the best parts of ourselves. We default to reaction instead of reflection. Consumption instead of creation. Survival instead of soul.
That’s why soul vitamins matter. They don’t just help us feel better; they help us come back to ourselves—more grounded, more human, more whole.
It’s not about “treating yourself.”
I’m all for small pleasures—rituals, rewards, celebratory indulgences. But this isn’t that. It’s not a self-care slogan meant to justify zoning out, numbing up, or surrendering to inertia.
Soul vitamins aren’t about indulgence, escape, or checking out; they’re about checking in with the parts of yourself that are most alive, most curious, and most human.
Why we forget to take them
It’s easy to forget what nourishes us when the world feels like it’s on fire all the time. It’s not your fault, or mine. The information economy runs on attention, not wellbeing.
Culturally, we also tend to glorify postponing rest until the work is done. We confuse being overwhelmed with being engaged. We treat joy like a luxury, and exhaustion like a badge of honor.
So, we scroll instead of breathe. We argue compulsively instead of pausing to reflect. We look outward instead of inward. And in doing so, we miss the quiet signals that our spirit is asking for more—even when it’s begging us to listen.
But nourishment isn’t selfish. It’s not a reward for doing enough. It’s a requirement for showing up at all.
The world isn’t softening anytime soon. And the truth is, you may not always be able to opt out of the chaos around you. But you can choose to tend to your inner life with care. You can choose to be a little more nourished, a little more grounded, a little more you.
A gentle invitation
So here’s your reminder. Take a breath and ask yourself:
What’s one soul vitamin you’ve been neglecting lately?
Maybe it’s as simple as taking daily walks without your phone. Maybe it’s calling someone who makes you belly laugh, or listening to music that makes you feel like you again.
Let it be simple, honest, and yours—not because you’ve earned it, not because it’ll make you more productive.
But because you’re alive.
And that’s reason enough.
