Do you feel that sometimes you neglect your self-care because your endless 'To-Do' list hasn't been completed? Are you in a place where you don't feel like you deserve to engage in self-care? Join me for this week's episode so we can deep-dive into these feelings and explore some strategies to overcome them. |
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Hey, it's Gail here. It's something I've spoken about before, these are really difficult times that we're living through at the moment. A lot of things happening around the world that are changing, social aspects of things that are going on, and if you're in business, in allied health you're probably dealing with the NDIS as well. I want to talk about my experiences because I feel like I've been feeling quite overwhelmed, and angry, and upset in my personal life, and it's coming through into my work life, from all of these different pressures that I'm feeling at times, and I've realized ... I've actually just finished my Pilates class, and I've just realized that I have been neglecting my self-care in a big way. I have lists of things that I need. I need to do my Pilates every day, I need to drink enough water, I need to eat green foods like vegetables every day. All the things that we know are good for us, I need to exercise, I need to sleep enough. |
But I've realized that I've been letting those things slide, but I need more than that as well in these moments, and I've been feeling like I don't deserve to take care of myself because I haven't done all the things that I want to do. I know there's a lot of you out there that probably feel like that. But I will just get through this report and then I can book a massage, or I'll just do this extra bit of work, and read another email, and I'll just reply, and then I can take a break and walk around the block. I'll just stay up a little bit later and get a few more things done, and then I'll go to bed, or I'll just sit on the couch and veg out, which isn't really helping if you're watching mindless TV instead of getting the rest that you need. |
In these challenging times is actually when you need to give yourself more self-care, even though it feels like the exact opposite of what you have time for, now is what you need to actually give yourself more of what it needs to be, to just be okay. We're not talking about, you know in this moment being your absolute best, but what is it that you need to just be okay on a day-to-day basis, and be able to show up in the world and serve your clients, and be there for your family in the way that you need to be. What is it that you need to do to help really, really look after yourself and take care of your needs. |
I'd love to hear from you, what sort of things that you are doing to take care of yourself. Are you getting enough self-care in? I don't just mean massages. I mean the things that we know are good for us, whether that's getting our exercise, setting boundaries and saying no to too many commitments, reducing the number of commitments you have. Simplifying your life at home so that you don't have to deal with those kind of things, whether it's too many clothes, or a cluttered house, or you know all of those things that we know are good for us and also make us feel better. What are the things in your life that you can do to take better care of yourself? |
Please share. Our community needs to hear the things that work for other people, so we can maybe learn from each other and adopt new practices, and so as a whole we can really be there for one another. We can't do this type of work on our own, we need to be there for each other and support each other, and make sure that we're all okay. So share what's working for you, and if you're not feeling okay, I would encourage you to reach out and get support, talk to you colleague, talk to a trusted friend, a family member, call a support line. You know do what you need to do to get the support you need, and you know let me know. You know you can send me a message or send me an email if you just need to talk to someone, you don't have anyone else. We're all here for each other. So go and just do what you did in the next five minutes, to do something for yourself, and take care of yourself in these really challenging times. |
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