This is part 6 in a 10-part series on Taking Care of Yourself How many times, when you’ve really wanted to do something for yourself, have you told yourself that you don’t have time. Maybe later become pretty much never. Your days are filled with activities including work, child care, school activities, after-school activities, community commitments, and social outings. You barely have enough time to maintain a relationship with your spouse or partner, let alone a relationship with … [Read more...]
4 Tips to Stop Worrying About What Others Think of You
It’s natural for us to care, at least a little, about what other people think about us, that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily healthy. If you find yourself often creating mind stories about what someone thinks about what you just said or did, you are most likely creating unnecessary stress for yourself. It’s a symptom of low self-confidence that you should try and do away with. Here are 4 tips you can use when you find yourself worrying too much about what other people think of you. Tip #1 … [Read more...]
7 Ways Self-Care Can Improve Your Attitude
Sometimes an attitude problem can be the result of you just not feeling your best. When that’s the case, there are ways that self-care can help to improve your attitude. It doesn’t take much of an attitude adjustment to turn your bad day into a better one. As the popular saying goes “attitudes are contagious”, so it's best to do everything you can to keep yours as positive as possible. That way when you are around your friends, family, and coworkers you can help turn their bad days around with … [Read more...]
8 Simple Tips and Ideas for Taking Care of Yourself
Taking care of yourself doesn't have to be hard to do. I think we, as humans, tend to always make things more difficult for ourselves, especially when it comes to doing something that's just for ourselves. In previous posts I mentioned that self-care can be whatever you want it to be. Your ideas of self-care might be completely different from my ideas of self-care. That being said, there are some ideas that are almost universal when it comes to taking good care of yourself. Here are 8 simple … [Read more...]
3 Reasons Why It’s Important to Take Care of Yourself
If you had to define self-care, you could say that in its simplest form, it’s really just doing the things you like, and that leave you feeling happy, healthy, and energized. There is no right or wrong way to do self-care, because it’s all about what you like doing for yourself and your personality that makes you a better person, parent, spouse, sibling, and friend. What you don’t want to do when it comes to self-care, is do things that other people think you need to do. Most people aren’t shy … [Read more...]
How Do You Define Self-Care?
We talked a lot about self-care in the Confidence Challenge, but it occurred to me as I was going through the posts that we never really defined what self-care is. In this new series, let’s correct that and do a deep dive into self-care, what it is, and why it’s good for you. Self-care is the act of taking care of yourself. It is doing exactly what you need to do to not only feel your best, but to live your best life. This includes caring for yourself mentally, physically, and emotionally. And … [Read more...]
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