Remember to be Nice to Yourself with These Illustrative Lock Screen Wallpapers

How often do you check your phone dur­ing the day? If you’re like me, you prob­a­bly pick it up near­ly 100 times. (I aver­age 87!) As long as you are rou­tine­ly turn­ing your screen on and off, you might as well make the most of it. For that, I sug­gest design­er Lucy Lit­man’s Sun­day Words Insta­gram posts and sto­ries. Each week, she intro­duces many short phrases—sometimes writ­ten, some­times spelled out with beads—that offer empow­er­ing mantras along with visu­al­ly stim­u­lat­ing tex­tures and patterns.

I have Lucy’s Sun­day Words as wall­pa­pers on all my lock screens and switch them up from time to time. They are bite-sized bits of moti­va­tion, best for when you’re feel­ing anx­ious or are uncer­tain about your direc­tion in life. Fol­low Lucy on Insta­gram to see what she’s cre­at­ed this week, and check out some of my favorites below.