Do you feel supported in your self care practice? I didn’t. For a long time I didn’t feel supported by my family or even myself. I felt guilty taking time for myself and for spending money on self care. I would find myself coming up with the craziest rationals as to why my needs were necessary. What are needs anyway? I like to define needs as the impulses of life or our life force energy. They are not good or bad, there is no should or shouldn’t. How do we get in touch with them? By …
Self-care
Self Care Goals
What if the self care goal itself, is the obstacle to achieving it? We all know that self care should be a priority and when we make the time we realize the benefits but often we spend more time setting goals, beginning new programs and then allowing them to fall away. How many times have we told ourselves, I will lose weight by this date, to later find ourselves filling up on cake (nothing wrong with cake!) ? Or making a commitment to practice yoga and binge watching tv …