These days, I spend quite a bit of time thinking about what contributes to my happiness, what brings me pleasure, and what makes me feel good. This isn’t to say that I just started pondering this topic in my (ahem)…
As I sit down to write this, my heart has been feeling pretty heavy. I’ve also been tired; not the tired you’d expect from multiple nights of poor sleep, but the tired you get when you are feeling totally spent.…
(in no order of importance) take a nap take a bath call someone you love take a walk get a massage (from a partner or a professional) read a book or magazine hang out with animals (your pets, go to…
Feeling frazzled? Check. Feeling torn? Check. Feeling exhausted? Check. Feeling resentful? Check. If you’re anything like me or pretty-much-most-people-I-know, you have a hell of a time saying no to people: to invitations for parties and dinners and lunch dates, to…
Modern women are notorious for shitty self-care. With families, jobs, school, and/or social lives, as well as the ever-elusive (read: nonexistent) superwoman persona, it can be incredible easy to let any focus on ourselves go by the wayside. I’ve personally…