How To Romanticize Your Life and Live Intentionally | We The Dreamers Podcast - Episode 3

Are we supposed to be making our lives romantic or something?

The bad news is I'm not sure I'm doing "romanticizing my life" right. The good news is we created a FREE workbook with journal prompts to help you explore what this means to you and you can get your copy here!

”Romanticize your life” is the phrase I keep hearing all over social media this season, and today we're back on our channel with a brand new video podcast episode trying to figure out wtf it means.

I tried to get into the spirit of looking inward to learn what romanticizing my life means to me by wearing a pink puffy sleeve floral print shirt, because obviously. And although I'm fully committed to leaning hard into my Victorian lady autumn era, the outfit alone shockingly failed to immediately unlock all the answers.

This episode was a lot of fun to record because I didn't expect to actually be tempted to take my own advice at the end of it (since I so rarely do, self-sabotage queen and all), but I came away feeling like I just might be in the right headspace to try this romanticizing thing out after all.

It's easy for me to see how this concept can get stuck in the shallow end and quickly manifest into the candlelit bubble bath + face mask quick-fixes lovingly lauded by Ye Olde Self-Care Wellness Gurus, but as we chatted about what "romanticizing" your life actually could mean in addition to those surface-y (albeit lovely) things, my cynicism was having a hard time ignoring the appeal.

I feel like I mention at least one thing in every newsletter that normally feels like an eye-roll to me, which is in and of itself kind of an eye-roll-worthy behavior on my part, but nevertheless in this newsletter I'm trying to reframe my view of the normally eye-roll-inducing concept of romanticizing something, or "doing things with intention."

This concept sometimes feels cringey to me because I think a lot of people who say it don't acknowledge the fact that if you really want to live intentionally, or 'romanticize' something, you have to play an active part in that. It's kind of in the same language camp as "setting boundaries" to me - people love to say it, but they don't actually wanna do the work it takes to DO it.

The truth is that it bugs me because I too struggle immensely to actually do the work when it comes to this stuff.

Ultimately, I'm trying to look at the idea of 'romanticizing' my life and living it with intention from a new perspective - one that actually allows me to see myself as someone who is not only capable of making the changes I want to make in my life, but who is also actually ready to change in the ways I really want to.

You can catch the full conversation over on our YouTube channel, and we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments on what "romanticizing your life" means to you!