It takes tremendous courage to leave a relationship that no longer fits. It takes tremendous self-love to know you deserve better. It takes tremendous faith to believe something better, someone better lies just around the corner in your future. It takes tremendous wisdom to feel deep in your bones that you were born to live a life of joy and that everything you dream about can be yours.
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The Importance of Self-Care for Caregivers [Infographic]
Caregivers, by their nature, will tend to the needs of others before looking after themselves. However, it’s important that caregivers don’t neglect their own health and wellbeing, or else they are likely to experience burnout and this would impact negatively on the quality of care they provide to patients.
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Dos and Don’ts: Self-Love in 2019
With 2019 upon us, many of us will begin to make our New Year’s resolutions along with a strategic plan to help keep them on track
We need to remember that the basis of a New Year resolution is to better yourself from the year before, and the best way to accomplish that is to show yourself love throughout all areas of your life, not just the areas that need taming!
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Self-Care: Your Ticket to a Happy, Healthy Life
Self-care matters. Let that sink in for a moment as you reflect upon all the ways you don’t adequately care for yourself. Going to bed late to fix the perfect lunch for your children, working through lunch to meet unrealistic deadlines, and satisfying hunger with boxed and processed foods are all examples of ways we think we’re doing the right thing. They are also examples of unintentional self-harm.
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Using Self-Care to Overcome Codependency
There is a series on Netflix now called Love, that is a Jude Apatow romantic comedy about a socially awkward man in his 30s trying to date a smart, successful, and beautiful woman in her 30s, who also happens to be a recovering sex and alcohol addict. I’ll admit that some parts of this show are a bit offensive, crude, raunchy and do show explicit sexual and drug activity. So, I am not sure I would recommend this show to everyone.
However, beneath the raunchy sex jokes and drug activity is a true love story about two incredibly flawed but decent human beings trying to stay open to the possibility of a loving and healthy relationship…even though one is a recovering sex and drug addict and her boyfriend has problems with codependency. This program actually shows us the importance of using self-care to overcome issues with codependency. [Read more…] about Using Self-Care to Overcome Codependency
