Self care is a lot of things. But it isn't selfish.
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Self care is a lot of things. But it isn't selfish.
Here's where you can find me:
Blog - https://sarastrives.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarastrives/
Intro and Outro Music:
Summer Vibes by Simon More https://soundcloud.com/user-73416670
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Welcome to the me myself and you podcast.
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My name is Sara and I'm your host and I'm glad to have you here again today.
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I'm going to be talking about why and just reminding you why self-care isn't selfish.
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I think hopefully this has been hammered into your brains by now.
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I know for me personally, I have had a hard time A lot of times with things words like it logically, I understand this.
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But it takes me a while to emotionally get there and sometimes I need to hear it 20 million times.
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So hopefully that sounded a little Canadian I think but okay.
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Well, I'm just going to talk through this a little bit self-care is not selfish.
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It is absolutely a necessary part of life.
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I do see people in my life that don't practice self-care and it's damaging.
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It's not good not take care of yourself because self care is a lot of things self-care isn't just bubble baths and face masks.
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That's not my oh my go to although those things can be as I've ranted about that before.
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It's not just that it's setting healthy boundaries with people with work with all kinds of things.
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It is getting enough sleep.
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It's drinking water.
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It's literally taking a shower or brushing your teeth or basic hygiene practices even taking the time to like Use the bathroom
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or make your bed super simple tasks can be self care things that help you feel like you have your head screwed on straight.
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Maybe that is eating something green once a day or going for a walk for 10 minutes, or maybe it's taking a nap.
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Maybe it's literally just going okay.
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I'm supposed to work 40 hours a week and trying to stick to those 40 hours so that you're not having an unhealthy work-life
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balance.
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There's so many boundaries and healthy habits and things that are hands down one of the most important parts of self-care and if
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you ever heard somebody say, oh, yeah.
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Well, I just need to jump through the shower or I need to sign off for the day because I've gone over time or whatever.
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Do you think that they're selfish?
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No because it's not selfish.
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It's self-care its setting healthy boundaries.
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It's doing the things that you need to take care of.
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Or you that are just for you because ultimately you cannot pour from an empty cup and you cannot function.
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Well, when you're not taking care of yourself self-care isn't about being selfish.
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It's taking care of you so that you can flourish and so that you can help the people in your life flourish because you can't do
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what you need to do in your life.
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If you're not taking care of you first.
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Does that resonate?
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Hope it does you have to pause and breathe and take care of you so that you can perform better.
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Does that make sense?
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If I am working 60 hours a week and never taking time for myself.
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Am I going to be at my best self at work?
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No, because I'm not getting enough rest time.
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I'm not able to take care of things.
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So my I'm distracted about other life things and I'm overwhelmed and tired and rundown.
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It's important to take care of you to Able to do well overall.
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It's important to be doing self-care things so that you can take care of other people if you need to if that's your thing and
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that may not be the best example only because I don't think that you taking care of yourself should be primarily so that you can
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take care of other people I think taking care of you is important because it's showing love to yourself and you're going to be a
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lot happier.
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If you're loving yourself.
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I feel like sometimes when I'm talking Going through this stuff.
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I it really like resonates with me.
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Even though I'm the one saying it's like oh crap.
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Yeah, but it's just so important to take care of you because if you really are not taking care of you.
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What's the point if you're not happy if you're not healthy.
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What are you doing?
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Yeah, sometimes you got to just do things to stay afloat.
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I get that for sure.
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There's a lot of times where you're going through those phases where you just have to work like a dog and You're just
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overwhelmed and all of that but I think there's still small things you can do with that point that are self care.
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You can still pause to drink water or make a doctor's appointment or eat something green simple stuff that are still self-care
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things.
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It's so important and it's absolutely the foundation for good mental health.
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I hope this helps you if you feel like this episode resonated with you.
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