Self care and I seem to have a sometimes on / mostly off kind of relationship. I know that I want to make it a part of my life, but it never seems to make it to the top of my list of priorities.
I know that I want to slow down, meditate, relax, journal, rest, and recharge, but it just doesn’t seem to happen as often as I would like (or as often as I need).
Because I’m a visual person, I thought it may make it easier for me to remember to take better
A Shared Wisdom Guest Post Featuring Tanja Gardner
Once upon a time, I didn’t realise I was introverted. It was weird. I knew I had THE highest alone-time needs of any human being I’d ever met. I knew I quickly got “peopled out” if I was around groups for too long. I knew that if I had to network in person, I’d sometimes end up having borderline panic attacks.
At that point, the only words I had to describe myself were “anti-social” or “shy.” And yet, neither of those really
My nose started bleeding today. It was a completely random event. I hadn’t had a nose bleed since I was a kid, and nothing externally had changed for me to have one now (the weather was the same, I don’t have allergies, I hadn’t knocked into anything, etc.). And yet, bright red blood was pouring out of it.
And here’s the part that I’m not entirely proud of saying, but I promised I would continue to show up here in-process and completely human, so here goes: I was more
If you’re anything like me, pushing yourself comes more easily than loving yourself. If you’re anything like me, giving to others comes more easily than giving to yourself. If you’re anything like me, moving quickly comes more easily than slowing down.
Does this sound at all familiar?
I just have a feeling that so many of us share this default setting.
But what I love about life is that our default settings can be changed.
Have you ever experienced that moment where you felt that your life was no longer your own? Where you realized that you were so immersed in the day-to-day routine and the “should dos” and the “must dos” and the “don’t forget to dos” that you completely forgot about your own needs and your own desires and your own purpose?
If so, you most likely looked around and felt a bit of resentment (or a lot of resentment), a bit of sadness (or a lot of sadness), and
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