These days, you can’t go a day without reading or hearing something about self-care. If you’re still a little unsure of what it truly means, it’s basically, taking a proactive stance in your mental, emotional, social and physical health to achieve and maintain holistic wellness.
Actively taking steps to take care of yourself enhances our ability to live fully, vibrantly, and effectively. The practice of self-care also reminds you that your needs are valid and deserve to be met.
Self-care is important to maintaining a healthy relationship with yourself, but realistically, it may not be so easy to put into practice. With epidemic/post-epidemic anxiety on the rise, self-care is part of the answer to how we can all better cope with life's daily stressors.
The key to healthy self-care is flexibility and determination. When it comes to building this practice, we have to ask ourselves if what we’re doing is good for us. This is not to imply we should adopt a selfish outlook, but instead, start gauging whether our actions are facilitating long-term wellness. If something is not living up to that standard, we need to be amenable to change and resolute in our efforts to improve.
We’ve been trained to believe that self-care equates to indulgences, when, in fact, it is the opposite. Self-care is creating a life where we don’t feel the desire to escape.
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