It is easy, so easy to focus on the things that suck. The things that haven’t worked out the way that we’ve wanted. Our failures to check things off our to-do lists. Our failures to meet our own expectations. I get it. I am not an optimist. I’m a realist that verges over into pessimist […]
Why You Need to Stop Saying Sorry
Lately I’ve realized that I say sorry way too much. This is not a new thing either. I’ve always been an over-apologizer. Sometimes to the annoyance of others and even myself. Here are some of the things I’ve said sorry for in the past couple of days: Almost colliding with my husband as we […]
Start Your Day with Self-Love and Affirmations
This post includes affiliate links. I will be the first to admit that I am not a morning person. As a result I can be rather grumpy, or at least foggy in the mornings. But how we start our morning can definitely influence how the rest of our day goes. Feeling rushed getting ready in […]
What is Self Care?
In the first month of my goal to prioritize self care, I have done a lot of thinking about what self care is and what it means to women. For one thing, I set out to figure out if I was right in my assessment that a lot of women associated guilt or selfishness with […]
Is Self Care Selfish?
When I proposed the question, “Does self care ever feel selfish to you?” to a group of women on Facebook, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of vehement “No!”s I got. But there were some that acknowledged feelings of guilt for taking time for themselves. Or admitted the self care was essentially non-existent in […]
Resolution for Self Care
I have never been big on making new year’s resolutions, mostly because they never seem to actually happen when I do. But I have decided to make one this year, not for self improvement, but to take better care of myself. Over the past few weeks I’ve realized that this year I’ve done a really […]
