Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “self care”
“Healthy selfishness feels like taking a risk. It does not mean disregarding other people’s feelings and needs. It simply means we do not disregard ourselves to please others or to support others at our own expense. It means we take care of our body and value our needs, desires, feelings and dreams.” – Blake D. Bauer A recent post at …
One of the items on my Top 100 List of Ways to Love Myself is to make time to curl up with a cup of tea and read a good book (fuzzy red socks optional depending on the season). Reading makes me feel happy and according to a recent New York Times article there’s more to it than just feeling …
As I lay in Savasana at the end of yoga class today, the song Sanctuary by Donna De Lory played softly in the background. I heard the word sanctuary quietly repeated in the chorus over and over again and I thought to myself, “This is what I get from yoga: sanctuary. My yoga mat is one place I find sanctuary. …
This photo from the blogger extraordinaire Sally Schneider’s Improvised Life web site sounded like the perfect advice for how to take time out for self care. It’s extremely difficult to come to a full stop in life and make time to take care of ourselves. But sometimes that is just what is needed. A friend of mine recently made one …
When I mention to friends that I have a web site about self care, I often get great ideas for future posts. My new friend Denise couldn’t contain her excitement about a book she was reading. And it wasn’t a murder mystery on the NY Times Bestseller List. Gut, The Inside Story of our Body’s Most Underrated Organ, written by …
