self care journey Archives

You Can Find Love While You’re Still Finding Yourself, Here’s How

Let me begin this by saying, self-care is not finite. You don’t go to X number of therapy sessions, write “this” number of journal entries, meditate “this” many times and…

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How to Stop Crowdsourcing Your Decisions and Give Yourself Permission

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or most of us, we’ve had to ask for permission our entire lives. Beginning with our parents or caregivers, then our teachers and professors, and from there our superiors in…

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How I Realized I Was Practicing Self-Care Without Self-Love

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] spent a lot of my 2018 focused on self-care. Either through writing about it, practicing it, or discussing it with friends and loved ones. Yet, at times, I felt as…

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2019 Is the Year to Learn Your ‘Balancing Acts’

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s time to admit that “having it all” is no longer the golden standard. Thanks to the rise of self-care in 2018 and public figures such as Michelle Obama highlighting the departure from this…

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Self-Care Isn’t Always Pretty, and That’s Okay

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]s it just me, or have you ever noticed while scrolling through your Instagram and Facebook timelines just how blissful the self-care process seems to be for those around you?…

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