Find that time
Consider what do you need to put in place, to be able to make time for yourself?
Is it childcare, or doing it during school time?
Juggle your time so that you can go and do something nice. Find the windows of opportunity, book them in (like you would an important meeting) and make it non-negotiable.
Ask yourself would you advise your own children to do the same and not feel so exhausted and drained by parenthood when they are parents themselves?
If we start to speak about ‘me time’ with our children they will begin to understand the idea of it as well.
How much time you are spending on your phone?
We are all guilty of it, it’s the time we live in.
I challenge you to use an app and figure out how many hours you spend scrolling, because it’s probably more than you would expect.
It could be part of your self-care to sit and scroll with a time limit. Fair enough. But if there’s something else that you could do, that maybe would give you more connection, help you feel calmer, then that is going to be much more beneficial.
Another thing for the ‘to-do’ list.
If we feel we don’t have the time for self-care, it can add to feeling overwhelmed and becomes just another thing we have to do and creates a circle of negativity. So the alternative is not doing anything. I truly believe we can do self-care all the time by tuning into our inner voice and dialogue and checking in with how we feel daily.
Your self-care comes from self-acceptance and valuing yourself enough, finding small windows of opportunity for activities to help you feel more connected and have fun. Try to be consistent and kind to yourself.
Find those windows and make them non-negotiable.
This is about you. If you are not making time for your self-care and to appreciate and value who you are, then when do you plan to do that?
When will you do that Or who will do that for you?
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