So probably for me ACTUAL self-care is eating a salad, but a bag of chips feels like self-care.
Taking care of yourself includes living by a budget and whatever, but shopping feels so right!
Yeah, I read something once that said something along those lines, like we always think self-care is ice cream and Netflix, but self-care is ALSO paying bills and going to the dentist and getting the tires rotated. I think the idea is that self-care should encompass both (1) time for ourselves, which can be indulgent, and (2) literally taking care of stuff that needs to happen to keep our lives trundling forward.
Yeah, sure, what is self-care as an occasional thing can become self-destructive as a habit. Can't imagine that is a bright line most of the time.
And I think it's also hard to distinguish between "things I gotta do for my own good" and "things expected of me by family or society or whatever that I am actually better off without" because they both feel like obligations.
See also: wants vs needs, our own and others'
Russia, Canada, Costco, and JCP are all conspiring to make me a giant ball of stress, which apparently makes me chatty!
ETA: and now the Caribbean is getting in on the fun. You are not supposed to increase my stress levels, tropical islands!
a car twenty years younger than the Jeep
So ... does this make you a car cougar?
So ... does this make you a car cougar?
It only just became old enough to drink this year, and I haven't seen it trying to get cozy with the youngsters in the parking lot.
I need better self-care strategies than just looking at pictures of CEvans.
I will note that this is a pretty decent one, but I still need better ones for when the Zebra Footage folder just ain't doing it.
Right long term self-care is trickier because it does not always = making my brain feel better. The gym does, so that's good. I had a salad for lunch instead of cupcakes so woohoo for me. salad should release endorphins.
At this point I think CEvans would need to show up at my house to take me out and tell me I am pretty to actually lift my mood. Pics no longer work. They make me sad that I have not had a crush on real person I know in years.
One of my college crushes just posted on FB that he is in a new relationship. Someone I had not seen in probably 10 years and it still felt like a possibility being scratched off the list.
