True self-care isn’t reserved for spa days or weekends. It’s built through small, deliberate choices you make every day — at home and at work. In the first three articles of this series, we explored how noticing your energy, shifting your mindset, and aligning your choices with your true values are critical foundations for sustainable…
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…