Self-care isn’t separate from how you live. It’s embedded in it. As I reflected upon in my last article, for a long time, I thought self-care meant squeezing in activities that made me feel better — like reading, knitting, or the occasional kick-boxing class. And while those activities do matter for my self-care, I eventually…

Before you can build habits that truly support your well-being, you have to change how you think about yourself, your time, and your needs. I used to think self-care was going to get a pedicure. Or taking a yoga class. Or maybe a quick journaling session squeezed in between client calls or kid activities.  (Opens…

The difference between what’s energizing and what’s exhausting is the foundation of sustainable self-care. “I have two kinds of days,” a colleague who had just become a new mother once told me. “The kind where I’m full of fire, and the kind where I’m burning out.” That comment stuck with me — because so many…