Self-care

Have you ever heard the saying that bad things happen in sets of three?  Well sometimes it can feel like bad things happen in sets of ten. We face one challenge just for another problem or bad thing to happen. And then another. And another.  Before long it can feel like the entire world is […]

Do you want to start your own self-care journey but you aren’t sure where you should begin? Self-care can be intimidating at first. There has been such an influx of self-care information all over the place in the last couple of years. It can be easy to feel like new information is flying at you

One of the best things I started doing for myself when I was learning about self-care, was to begin having monthly self care nights. When I first started my self-care journey, I was extremely busy and overwhelmed with a high-stress career and a lot going on in my personal life. I was unsure how much

Want to hear something kind of silly?   Although for years I never made self-care a priority for myself, I always knew it was an important thing—for the people around me. I was always taking care of everyone else, or lecturing them to take better care of themselves, but I was not practicing what I

It’s time for some brutal honesty, my friends.   When it boils down to it at the end of the day, the only one who cares about you is you.   Now, before you get defensive, I can already guess what you might be about to say:   “But my family cares about me”  “I have

When many people consider self-care, they simply think of it as taking baths or papering themselves. However, true self-care has so many more aspects to it. There are eight main areas of self-care, or eight different areas that we need to take care of when we look after ourselves. Intellectual self-care seems to be one of the

For those of you that don’t know my story, 2021 was a super rough year for me. My personal life had been extremely stressful for the ten years prior, and the stress at my high-pressure career in the health field was only increasing.  I reached my personal rock bottom when I began experiencing panic attacks

Often times it can be difficult for introverts to live in a world where people that are outgoing and social are celebrated. Introverts are easily misunderstood and can be mistreated by others who do not understand them.   However, it is possible for introverts to mistreat themselves as well. The idea of self-care can seem

It wasn’t too long ago that I started my own intensive self-love journey. The first thing I needed to accomplish was doing a lot of soul-searching and self-reflection. By getting to know myself on a much deeper level, I was able to discover what I needed to do to learn to truly love myself, improve my

Full transparency here, I used to be one of those people who always made it my New Year’s resolution to focus on my health for the year to follow.   As most people do when they make a New Year’s resolution, I told myself that this next year coming up things were going to be different. 

Do you know someone that seems super strong and independent? Maybe they love to travel the world alone, and always seem like they are up to these breathtaking adventures. Or maybe they are a single parent with multiple kids and seem like they are juggling so many things at once and doing it without anyone

While the topic of self care becomes even more popular–you can no longer scroll through social media or watch the news without seeing content dedicated to it–it can be difficult to understand what it fully means or how it is different from some of the other things we have already been doing for ourselves on