You Deserve To Take The Best Care Of Yourself Every Day

Hey girl, are you overwhelmed and exhausted from constantly “powering through” and pushing yourself?

Then listen up… I’m here to give you a little pep talk and some ‘tough love’. And by all means, if there is a better way to say 'tough love' -please let me know, 'cause I’ve shied away from it in the past myself feeling it as criticism and judgement. That’s not what I want to relay… I want to relay LOVE about something you need to hear, but maybe aren’t willing to see it fully or say it to yourself yet.

I speak to and work with women weekly/daily who feel so frustrated and burned out… this is an epidemic that women collectively face and a pattern women choose to continue and perpetuate and it has to stop.

I talk a lot about self-care… I write about it, I share my own story, I post memes about it.

Today, I want to dig into it a bit further because self-care is more than just doing some nice things for yourself, washing your face every morning, scheduling the coffee date with your girlfriend after 3 years of sleepless nights due to young kids nursing or keeping you up.

Self care is not optional if you want to truly thrive and it will save your life and it’s much deeper and vast than just getting your nails done and drinking gourmet coffee.

Self-care means you do not get a choice to abandon yourself anymore.

Self-care means you choose you first, you choose your healing every day and you don’t give up, ever.

Self-care means you let things go that are causing you to burn out and choose things that help you recover. Self-care means YOU matter. It's your gift to yourself because you recognize that very fact. Self-care means you learn to create healthy boundaries that serve your best health and well being. It means saying no to shit you hate and teaching others you matter in the process.

The truest self-care meaning of self-care is that, you must commit to yourself fully.

It’s deep work that doesn’t happen overnight.

Ladies, we are at the collective effect of abandoning ourselves time and time again to everything and everyone else.

If you keep pushing too hard you will eventually burn out.

It's basic physiology. Your nervous system requires balance. Powering through is a mindset we have to unlearn.

And trust me, burn out is hard to come back from. I’ve been recovering from it for the last 10 years myself. I’ve shared all about this on my blog if you want to read more.

The honest truth is, you can’t heal fully if you don’t shift this pattern.

The good news is, you can start to interrupt the pattern and consciously choose to balance your nervous system by giving it more direct nurturing, rest and time to process your feelings, emotions and trauma.

Today, I want to take a stand for you and remind you that your self-care is not an option -for you, for your family and for our collective earth home and mother.

We have to get out of our heads and into our hearts and be honest that we both need and deserve incredible care to fully heal. You can start today, you can start small and start wherever you are at.

Just start. Choose you. Know and believe you are worth it.

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