The “Un-Popular” Self-Care

Self-care, the buzz word in the mom world these days.

What do you think of when you hear the word self-care? Maybe it is a bubble bath, a good book, or wine with your friends? All sound pretty amazing to me!

I have often struggle with the term “self-care”. It makes me shift in my seat a bit.

Although the popular ways to perform self-care are pretty spectacular, sometimes self-care is pretty un-beautiful. Self-care shouldn’t be the way we escape from our own lives but a way we value our own health: emotional, physical, and spiritual.

Building a Life You Don’t Have to Escape From

Self-care is a choice to build a life you don’t have to escape from.

It may get ugly, it may be painful but sitting down and taking inventory of your life. What things do you need to evaluate closely?

• Maybe it’s a hectic schedule that you use as an excuse to not workout or eat healthier.
• Maybe its worrying about what everyone else thinks so your decisions look more like what they want instead of what you want.
• Maybe it’s getting real with your finances and coming up with a game plan to pay off debt.
• Maybe it’s letting go…of the job, an unhealthy relationship, the failures and disappointments.
• Maybe it’s regularly indulging in “trendy” self-care and not having self-discipline.
• Maybe it’s playing the victim rather than the hero in your life’s story….OUCH.

Whatever the thing is, it means getting honest with yourself. This may mean upsetting people or not fitting in. It may mean that you have some new habits to build into your life.

It WILL BE uncomfortable, GOOD. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. This is where you will grow as individuals.

What are the “thing or things” that are keeping you from living your best life?