#79: Shelby Hamilton
"I started reading 'A Course in Miracles' a few years ago but left it in a hotel room on purpose."
Shelby Hamilton (@meowshelbs2) is an artist and former fashion blogger/model. You may remember her as Meow Shelbs.
#79: Shelby Hamilton
Aries/Pisces/Aquarius
Auckland, NZ
What does health, or being healthy, mean to you?
Being honest about who you are and where you’re at — struggles and all. Having no filter between you and your experience of life, so no drugs. Touching grass. Sunbathing. Moonbathing. Exploring your unconscious. Going to therapy. Sleep hygiene. Kissing. High alkaline water. Asking for help. Accepting reality. Flushing out toxins. Crying when I need to cry. Having a sense of what is right and what is wrong. Organic foods and materials. Being gentle with myself. Being in tune with the natural rhythms of my cycle and my body. Keeping my hair a little greasy instead of washing it right away. Clean bed sheets. Not over-exerting myself. Cleansing your doors of perception. Telling myself, “I love you.”
How would you describe your current lifestyle?
Terra incognita. Transformative. Gentle. Repetitive. Painful at times. Structured. Working on building a solid, confident base for myself — internally and externally. Eye-opening. Humbling. Anti-inflammatory. Quietly revolutionary. And genuinely quiet. I like silence whenever I get the chance. Pilgrimage. Therapeutic. Alchemical. Honest. Rehabilitating. Nourishing. Orphan/hero’s journey. Psychological composting.
How do you start and end your days?
Start: Wake before my alarm that’s there for “just in case.” Lie there for a moment. I don’t have an alarm set on my days off. Take my phone off airplane mode and check it briefly. I try not to check it, but I think most days I do. Shakti mat for at least 10 minutes.
Drink about 700 mL of room-temperature water from a glass water bottle.
Shower. Brush my hair. Spray organic rose hydrosol face mist (bought in bulk and decanted) on my face. Massage oil blends I make myself with organic ingredients like camellia oil and blue tansy oil on my face, neck, arms, and legs. Apply Noosa Basics Coconut & Vanilla deodorant. Zinc sunscreen on my face. Get dressed. Head to the kitchen and make breakfast.
At the moment, breakfast is two or three fried eggs in butter with salt and pepper — really runny yolks. I like to eat them with a spoon and mostly with my hands. I basically eat the same thing every day with varying spices or condiments, depending on what my weekly or monthly fixation is. At the moment it’s extra butter on top of the eggs and lots of chili flakes. I don’t need coffee. If I’m working that day, I make lunch to take with me. At the moment I am fixated on making banana pancakes for my midday snack. I dissolve a 1/4 teaspoon of Superfeast Tremella powder in a cup of hot water and drink that. I take one Superfeast Ashwagandha and one reishi supplement. I was taking milk thistle as a supplement for a month or so, but I just threw all of them out because apparently you don’t need them, and they can contain estrogen. I try to sit outside or lie down on the floor and do “constructive rest” pose for my psoas for 10, 20, or 30 minutes depending on how much time I have before I walk or catch the bus to work.
