Practicing Self-Love on Valentine’s Day and Every Day
This is an invitation to notice the thoughts you are choosing today and every day. Do your best to observe the thoughts gently, kindly.
On Asking for Help from Community
In order to navigate this week, I knew I was going to need some new and different help than last week or weeks prior. So, I connected with my communities to find a plan for care and support.
How to Tune in to Nature in Times of Uncertainty
Nature doesn’t judge your inner experience. The trees don’t care if you throw a full on toddler-level tantrum. They are still there, present, and willing to listen.
5 Ways to Practice Belonging to Yourself
As I navigate uncertainties and insecurities, some of the best medicine has been being with myself. But, like, really being with myself.
Committing to Self-Care and Community Care
Self-care and collective or community care are experiences and actions that are worthy of our time, energy, and effort. Furthermore, these acts of tending to ourselves and one another are required in order for us to thrive.
The Importance of Treating Self-Love as a Relationship
Self-love is not a destination. It’s a relationship. And like all relationships, it requires time, attention, care, and practice.
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15 Ways to Care for Your Sensitivity
“There are too many noises happening at once!” “I can’t go down that aisle, the scents are too strong!” :: screams or gasps when someone walks into the room ::…
How to Use Reading as Self-Care
Reading our books not only offered entertainment and education, but they also offered insight to our own circumstances, helped us to grow personally, and to connect with the books’ characters.
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12 Affirmations to Use When You are Facing Self-Doubt
As a parent, you are doing difficult work all day, every day. Self-compassion can be a pathway to deeper connections with ourselves and one another.
How to Talk with Your Teenager about Self-Care
There are self-care practices we engage in regularly to help keep our cups full, AND there will be times of intense stress, in which we need specific and sometimes more substantial self-care.