Putting off the things you like to do doesn’t make coping during the day easier. Sacrificing the 30 minutes you usually have to exercise won’t make being yelled at by a toddler easier. Bumping the coffee date you had with yourself won’t make your schedule feel easier. Having no boundaries around self care won’t make things easier. Actually in my experience, it does the opposite. As Mama’s we have so much going on and so many ways we have to split our attention & energy. It’s so easy to see why we start to tell ourselves “it’s just easier if I don’t.”
The thing is though, it’s not easier.
When we subtly nudge and negotiate our self care out of our days we end up in the exact position we wanted to avoid in the first place – stressed, overwhelmed, resentful, run down and less energised. Plus we feel less equipped to deal with it all because we haven’t taken the time fill up our cups. This was me last week. The narrative that “it’s just easier” has to be interrupted because it’s not. Our days will come and go and it is up to us to be kind enough to ourselves to set the self care boundaries that will help us flourish, not just survive. I’m working on this this week, drop a 🤙of you’re up for remembering your self care too!
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