Self Care is a foreign Concept

Feb 07, 2010

As I continue on my journey of self discovery many new things come to light. I bash my head against the wall and wonder why....why do I still use food in ways it was not meant to be used? Why have I gained some weight back? These answers can be obvious to me when I am helping someone else, but remain elusive when I am trying to work on me.

One thing that I have learned recently is that I have NO Self care rituals. I do very little to care for myself, ongoing, daily, or even on a intermitten basis. I mean really I dont wash my face at night, I just collapse into bed, I am lucky if I brush my teeth.  I dont care for my skin, I dont do any kind of spiritual development, meditation etc. I do the bare minimum. I take my vitamins, i dont eat sugar or soda, but beyond that my self care is poor.
When I am in a place where i need to feel self love or nurture myself? I have no idea how to do it. No resources at hand to use. So i eat. My new goal and newest plan in my tool kit, is to work on having a tool kit of self care ideas and options. One of the first things I am doing is asking others what kind of self care activities they have? One of my good friends, said that she will give herself a mask and and sit and read a magazine away from her husband the tv and the kitchen. She said she had to learn how to love herself with skin care. SO I wonder what do you do???  I thought getting a facial or massage counted, and it does to an extent but that is something that is done to us, not something we do FOR ourselves, to ourselves, in a loving way to ourselves.

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