The REAL COST Of Not Taking Care Of Your Self-Care

Y’know good people, I am gonna just lay this down: Y’all gotta stop treating self-care like it’s an optional extra! Like it’s the thing you will do… once all the important sh*t is done. Like it’s the side order of fries rather than the burger. Like it’s an optional extra to think about…when you have time. Like it’s a freaking LUXURY. We treat self-care like there is NO COST to NOT doing it. Be super clear: If you are not taking care of your precious self And by that, I mean not just your physical wellbeing But your mental, emotional and spiritual health too You will be practicing self-care-compensation instead: and it costs us far more than genuine self-care. There is an immediate cost to not taking care of ourselves: it’s expensive and it looks like this: We will be drinking wine to feel better after a hard day because we do not have a regular mental or emotional health practice to tap into to unwind and rebalance. Expensive. We will be trying on 15 outfits and creating a floordrobe or buying clothes in sizes we don’t want to compensate for the activity we didn’t do. Expensive. We will be buying shiny new shoes because they are the only thing we can guarantee to fit to compensate for the stress-eating we did. Expensive. We will be losing our rag at someone we didn’t mean to, in a way we regret because we didn’t do our own emotional boundary work before we had the conversation. Expensive. We will be feeling pissed off or sad… Read more