The holiday season can be wonderful and devastating---sometimes all in one day, sometimes in a single moment.
What a Positive Relationship with Your Body Looks Like
Having a supportive, compassionate relationship with your body is critical.
When Self-Care is Work
Sometimes, self-care doesn't look anything like we picture self-care to look. It's not a massage or manicure. It's not a bubble bath with book in hand and ice cream on a fancy tray. It's not even eating at your favorite lunch spot or treating yourself to some tiny luxury.
10 Quick Prompts for Cultivating Gratitude
Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S., a great reminder to shift our thoughts to gratitude, big and small. As such, here's a wide array of prompts to get you started in cultivating your appreciation---today and all-year round.
7 Strategies to Reduce Your Worries
Worry can feel stubborn and insidious. When you're filled with what-if thoughts, it's tough to concentrate on anything else. It's tough to fall or stay asleep. It's tough to enjoy yourself. It's tough to do anything but think about self-doubts, worst-case scenarios, and overwhelmed feelings.
3 Ways to Start Accepting Yourself
For many of us, self-acceptance is conditional. It's based on transient, temporary things, such as accomplishing a certain goal, getting to a certain weight, staying a certain size. Which means that we never feel comfortable. We never feel fully at ease.
Instead, we're forever trying to catch the carrot.
Instead, we're forever trying to catch the carrot.
Making Big and Small Dreams Come True
Whether you're dreaming up a big endeavor---writing a novel, moving to a new city---or a seemingly small project---reading more each month, making your bedroom into a sanctuary---it can easily feel overwhelming or downright impossible.
When You Don’t Feel Good About Yourself
You don't feel good about yourself. In fact, you feel terrible.
Maybe it's your weight, your hips, your nose. Maybe it's your inability to run or do push-ups. Maybe you compare yourself to others on everything---intelligence level, creativity, productivity, money---and inevitably come up short. Maybe it's because your once clear, smooth skin is becoming rough and wrinkled.
Maybe it's your weight, your hips, your nose. Maybe it's your inability to run or do push-ups. Maybe you compare yourself to others on everything---intelligence level, creativity, productivity, money---and inevitably come up short. Maybe it's because your once clear, smooth skin is becoming rough and wrinkled.
A Vital Self-Care Strategy Everyone Must Practice
How bad do things have to get before you actually ask for help? Before you actually utter the words, I'm not OK. I'm struggling.
Decluttering Can Be a Nourishing Self-Care Practice
It seems silly to think of decluttering as a self-care practice. In fact, it probably feels like the complete opposite. After all, decluttering feels like a chore, and who wants to do chores? After all, chores often feel like a struggle and a nuisance. And isn't self-care supposed to feel, well, carefree?
