
08/28/2025
I did a thing. After 7 years, I broke up with my Oura Ring. ✌🏽 😱
It seems like everywhere I turn, everyone is wearing an Oura ring. It has almost become a conversation piece, in fact with clients, it is! And it has been a great thing because we talk about sleep, HRV, stress, cycle timing. All of the wonderful things that the ring offers from a tracking perspective. So I am not discounting it at all.
However, for me, 7 years in, it has become a crutch, a pain point, a trigger of defeat, of continuously being the anomaly in my quest to better health inside and out.
For years now, my husband has begged me to get rid of it (mostly because I point out all the times he snores and how it affects my sleep per Oura tracking 😅) One of my best friends recently too has started pointing out how much I’m relying on the device over tuning into my body. Yikes. Then the tipping point was this podcast from of the FasterWay. She had an expert on who talked about Orthosomnia 20ish mins in, and my jaw hit the floor. That. Was. Me. Then she commented she had to get rid of Oura Ring 2 weeks because that was her too.
Then, I got an email that my Oura membership was up for renewal. The last sign I needed to actually do this. 7 years is a long time. But I realized my unhealthy routine of checking the app first thing in the morning to see all my numbers, feeling immediate defeat when my numbers weren’t where I’d like them to be, and that’s how I’d start my day.
Not good.
So it was a bittersweet moment to go through that process because of course I forgot to take my ring off last night, but I felt a weight lifted when I checked the app and couldn’t see all my numbers anymore. Relief. Empowerment. Resolve.
I do believe it is a wonderful tool and it can help many people. But when it took away from me, my intuition, my reliance on self, when it affected my self worth, my mood, my sleep, that’s when I realized I needed to step away.
So this is just an encouragement for you to take an inventory of your habits, your routine, your tools, etc., and see if anything might taking your peace away. Come back to you, your body, your soul. 🤍