Self care for your self worth.

Why when we need it the most does self care become so hard?

This month has been a battle, apart from the growing cost of living & the scary doom of a recession. I have spent some of my quiet days at work with my nervous system on the edge, staring at a blank screen trying to come up with some form of wisdom for social media, questioning everything I am putting out there, my self worth taking a bashing from seeing a quiet booking diary.

Am I doing something wrong?

Maybe I should quit?

Am I not good enough?

With all these things spinning around my mind, I have also been missing some essential self care. Not sleeping well, too much television, drinking too much coffee to stay awake, avoiding movement and cutting off all my self care pleasures through fear of money.

Every time I try to do a bit of self care it sends me into a spiral of over whelm and guilt that I should be "doing work" or "I must do more" but from having no self care, I have been paralysed with over whelm and not "doing" any of those work tasks anyway.

Sound familiar?

It is always when we need it the most that self care becomes difficult. I read this amazing statistic from a therapist which I can relate to this month and so much of what I hear from my clients when it comes to practising self care during stressful times.

According to California therapist, Melinda Haynes, “Taking time to administer a healthy dose of self-care can trigger feelings of guilt (I should be working/cleaning/spending more time with my kids), or stir up unresolved feelings related to self-worth (I don’t deserve this or I’m not good enough for this).”

What we all NEED right now is self care, I need to switch off from the world in a healthy way.

When times are hard, self care becomes our most important tool we have.

I have designed a retreat all about this topic about bringing this element of calm & ritual into your day to day, but I also need a reminder sometimes of the simple daily things we can do to truly relax.

More on retreat HERE.

Remember even just 1% can help - deep breathing on the toilet, sitting for 5 minutes before we go on our phones, putting a meditation on to sleep.

Over next week I am going to send you an email a day with some SIMPLE self care practices that can shift us out of overwhelm even if just for one second.

Over the weekend I invite you to work with these affirmations below, we need to tell our UN-conscious mind that it is safe to switch off during this time.

(for more information on how to use affirmations, check out my blog on them)

I hope this has helped someone today, because I really needed to hear it too.

-Put on a meditation.

-Book that massage.

-Get to that yoga class.

Your body & mind need you right now.

See you Monday for a week of self care rituals to calm & soothe the nervous system!!

Light & love,

Amanda

Sound Touch Treatments.