Over the last few months, I have learned some precious lessons that I guess if I hadn’t quit teaching, maybe I wouldn’t have learned at all. I was always focused on looking okay and smiling even if I didn’t feel like it. It’s something they drill into you on the job. It doesn’t matter if…
Tag: self-care
You don’t have to heal according to other people’s expectations
Healing is a different process for everybody. Some people process events faster and others take a lot longer to come to terms with a new reality and both of these things are okay. I dislike hearing people say “but you have to move on already”, or “that was a long time ago, you’ve got to…
It’s time!
There comes a time when you must decide to put your energy towards yourself, investing in your well-being and your future. I like to think there is no better time to start than today. If you’ve spent a lot of time caught up in meeting everybody else’s needs, catering to everyone else’s agenda or even…
Stop being so hard on yourself
I love today’s quote beyond belief! I was always so sure that if I put unrealistic expectations on myself I would eventually meet them. Even if they made me miserable and depressed all the time, the hard work would eventually pay off, but it didn’t. Being hard on myself didn’t work towards making me feel…
On the road to self-care
On the journey to self-care, one must understand a few things. You only have one life, do you really think spending it overlooking your needs is the best way to live it? Looking after others and helping them is an honourable thing to do, but forgetting you are somebody too and you need some help…
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