Self-Care

Goodness gracious where has this summer gone. I can’t believe we are already in September. These past few months I’ve been working with PiYo and love it. It’s a great feeling to see in our challenge groups people making noticeable progress. A topic has been coming up a lot for me in regards to self-care. What is self-care? How do you get self-care? Does it have to cost money?

Let’s face it especially for the mom’s out there self-care seems absolutely impossible but it’s what is needed most in order for us to get through the stress and overload of everyday life. Self-care could be a glass of wine at night, reading a good book for 10 minutes before bed, locking yourself in the bathroom for fifteen minutes, playing golf, for me it’s dancing, or maybe your self-care is calling someone who makes you feel better about you. What you should know is that YOU are IMPORTANT and deserve self-care. Please take some time to think about what self-care looks like for you and do one thing for yourself this week. Sometimes we consider work out as self-care, which it is definitely needed as self-care to boost our mood, increase our energy and help us feel good about ourselves, but getting in that work out can almost become a stress in itself. So please do yourself a BIG favor and make you a priority.

I have to plan out my self-care and I don’t always get it in. Sometimes I plan, tonight I’m going to have a glass of wine, Saturday I’m going to watch Pride and Prejudice, my husband and I are going to have a date night, I’m going to take a bath with a glass of wine, I’m going to have a jam session with my favorite music on my way home from work. These are just some ideas of what I do for self-care.