Working in Fashion is notoriously stressful. Despite its alluring facade, it's a fast-paced, high-pressure industry, fiercely competitive, with lofty expectations set on its workers.

Brands need to produce more with less time, keep up with new trends, and meet the industry's tough demands in constant innovation and creation. On the other hand, creatives usually face ruthless competition, frequent rejection, long hours and toxic working conditions. And, even if you're among the lucky ones and everything's going well for you, painful and unpredictable events can happen any day. So, how can you stay sane and mentally strong when life's giving you a hard time?

Daily rituals can add light to bleak days and help you move forward with a clear mind.

Rituals are mental exercises that, when done regularly, can help you understand a situation you're going through - and take the necessary steps to feel better. 

Rituals can support you when you're suffering from burnout or depression, lack of self-love or motivation, or when you feel anxious or afraid. They help us connect with our body and mind, fuel our energy into the right things, accept failures and rejection, and find joy.

You'll find plenty of rituals online, like the gratitude and morning rituals, which we strongly recommend doing. But we're sharing here three little-known mental health exercises you can easily add to your well-being routine.

The Total Acceptance Ritual is about accepting our flaws, life's unfortunate events, our pain and frustration, our darker parts and our weaknesses, our friends' imperfections and our boss's frustration. Total Acceptance soothes us when we're hurt, so we can heal, grow, and be authentic, kind and loving.

We all have moments when we're in pain. Everyone goes through life crises, big or small. Yet, each crisis and all the torment it comes with can be a gift. You can take it as an opportunity (sometimes brutal) to let go of bad habits, get closer to what holds true meaning to you, see what you want to do with your life, and love yourself and others with an open heart. Crises can help you take a necessary life detour, accept your fragility and vulnerability, learn and heal.

Write your feelings down or let them pass by your mind naturally, without restricting their flow, without looking for a reason or an explanation. Let them freely exist in your mind and move through your body. 

Ever noticed the word 'motion' is in 'emotion'? Feelings move. Emotions evolve. Embracing them can help you see where they're coming from and how they're changing over time. Do you see a positive trend? Think about what you're doing in your life that might be causing this change. And vice versa. What's causing a downward spiral, and how can you reverse it? 

Take time to meditate, exercise, go outdoors, read, and talk with good friends. Give yourself space to do the things that make you feel good.

Instead of trying to forget, hide or suppress them, try to think of painful moments as if they were pearls or precious stones. You can then allow yourself to see the beauty in your own fragility. Crises can help you reconcile yourself with your wounds. Identify them, accept them, and see what lessons you've learned from them.

In his book 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari' Robin Sharma made this beautiful analogy: our thoughts are like a garden. For it to flourish, we have to prevent weeds from growing inside it.

Think of weeds as negative thoughts. They overwhelm the healthy flowers - the positive thoughts - that can't burgeon anymore. So ideally, we'd have to cultivate a garden free of weeds to let it thrive.

But weeds sometimes make a garden more diverse and beautiful, right? Some even attract bees and butterflies. And we can't exterminate negative thoughts with pesticides in our human mental garden. If only it was that easy...

Negative thoughts are part of who we are as a person.

So our mental garden can very well be full of gorgeous flowers and have some weeds in it as well. The important thing here is to keep weeds from taking up too much space. Not to eradicate them, but to keep everything balanced. 

You can start with:

Our body and our mind are one unit. Whatever we do that makes our body feel good, our mind will thrive. Whatever we do to cultivate a positive mind, our body will prosper.

This is a quick and efficient way to get into a positive mindset or motivate yourself to reach your goals.

Lay outside in the sun, or somewhere comfy in your home. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and start imagining your ideal future. If it's easier, you can also write your thoughts down.

Dive in. Let go.

Then, think about what you need to do to reach what you've just visualised, one step at a time.

Start small…Even the slightest changes can make a difference. It doesn't matter if you ever reach this vision or not. Take pride in the effort you put in to move towards something you know can make you feel better.

When going through hard times, try to do these rituals a couple of days a week. Wait a month, and see if they've helped make things better for you. We hope they do!