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For now, remember that you can only fully enjoy the good NEW things in your life if you are making space by clearing out the obligations that no longer serve you.

If you don’t build this muscle of disappointing others with the little stuff, and thereby create a thicker skin to the judgment, you might face, you’ll end up, betraying yourself when it comes to the big stuff – and you might find yourself moving forward in a relationship or in a career that isn’t right for you.

The problem with this mentality is that the longer you stick with a relationship, a job, or a situation that isn’t working for you, the higher the emotional cost becomes to eventually set a boundary.

Over time, Tonya was able to recognize that the feelings of guilt were not a moral judgement on her, but instead an internalization of a lifetime of conditioning to serve everyone before herself.

Real-self care is all about making space for YOU - your thoughts, feelings, and priorities in life. Most of my patients need to fight their way to having this space, because they don’t see their time and energy as belonging to them.

They were willing to let go of who they thought they should be in order to be who they were.

Its having the audacity to say “I exist and I matter.” Make decisions from a place of reflection and consideration

Real self care is an assertion of power

Real self care brings you closer to yourself

Real self care means treating yourself with compassion

Real self-care requires boundaries and moving past guilt. It’s ultimately about decision making

Eudaemonic well-being focuses on deriving meaning and having our actions be congruent with out values; it is the feeling that our lives are imbued with purpose.

The wellbeing of mothers is liked to four factors: feeling unconditionally loved, feeling comforted when distressed, authenticity in relationships and satisfaction with friendships.

3 common reasons we turn to self care 1 escape 2 achievement 3 optimization

Your formal educational training, no matter what the field, may have equipped you with skills that will serve you in caregiving. For example, an engineering degree may help you with prioritizing. A teaching degree may help you establish a routine.

What are you willing to do for what you believe in? That is what conviction is

My job is to protect human kind v my job is to do what ever it takes to purge the earth of evil

Our culture has taken wellness and foisted it on the individual - where it can be bought, measured, and held up as personal success _ instead of investing in making our social systems healthy.