If you had the opportunity to watch yourself as you moved through your day, would you see a person behaved as though they valued themselves?

We want to avoid emotional pain. It generally feels awful. The physical sensations are sometimes unbearable. Suffering sucks. Ugh. Of course we want to get rid of these feelings!!

Life is hard enough. You need an internal best friend, not an opponent. Here’s how to get one.

Self-care can be problematic for person with perfectionism. Why? First, and perhaps most obvious, your self-care has to be perfect, too…

The two major fallacies of self-care:

(a) Self-care needs a separate time from the rest of the daily grind; and

(b) Self-care is only needed when you are falling apart.

Emotions are responses to what is going on in our internal or external worlds. Just like a rumbling tummy tells you to go eat, emotions tell you to go do something.

Self-care has been prescribed as the panacea for preventing mental health problems and maintaining emotional well-being. Which seems like a major feat for a fizzy bath bomb…! So, what is self-care