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How To Develop A Self Care Mindset
If you’ve ever been to one of my groupinars, you probably know how passionate I am about how we define self care. I’m constantly promoting the importance of developing a mindset that defines self care as just simply “taking care of yourself.” It’s not a noun, its not a verb, self care is a concept.…
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How To Be Your Own Best Friend
Are you your friend? This is one of my goto CBT examples in my therapy practice. I remember the first time that I used it. I was counseling a teenage girl in her freshman year of high school. Beautiful girl, smart girl, and overall wonderful compassionate human. The kind of girl that most people would…
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Self Care Isn’t Selfish
Note to self: Self Care isn’t selfish. Why we have to keep making these notes to ourselves, I have no idea. I’m a therapist and I still have to remind myself of these things on a daily basis. Logically, I know that self care is not selfish, but it can certainly start to feel that…
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Self Care Tips From A Therapist
Licensed therapist here with some self care tips and tricks for your everyday life. In my practice, I see lots of people who want to build and enhance their self care. I love going through this journey with them and I, myself, have learned a few things along the way. Focus On Your Own Self…
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Essential Self Care Tips and Tricks
I bet you think that I’m going to tell you exactly how to practice self care. Well, I am. But this is not your typical trendy list of prescriptive self care tasks. The way I look at it, true and essential self care comes from a way of thinking more than a list of doing.…
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Positive Self Talk Works
Did you know that we talk to ourselves all of the time? Sometimes we aren’t even aware of the thoughts that we are telling ourselves throughout the day. The way that we think about ourselves, and the way that our inner voice interacts with us, can really affect the way that we handle things in…
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Self Care Confession
Sorry to burst your self care bubble, but just because I know a lot about self care doesn’t mean I always take the best care of myself. I talk about this stuff for a living. Yet I still catch myself ignoring my self care needs from time to time. Self Care Confession: turns out therapists…
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Today’s Joyful Things
One of my very favorite things to do is to ask people to look around and find three things that bring them joy. Without further ado, here is a list of today’s joyful things brought to you by my fabulous groupinar friends: The Joyful Things Colouring! Hot tea. Rain on the windows. singing. Smelling flowers.…
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Morning Journaling for Self Care
Practicing reflection first thing in the morning gives your brain a minute to catch up. Early morning journaling can help you notice things that may need your attention so that you can work to address them before everything gets muddled by all of the new thoughts of your day.
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Bundles of Joy: Coffee Cats, and Yard Ghosts
Coffee, cats, and yard ghosts. These are the three things that bring me bundles of joy right now. I’ve done quite a few more self care webinars than usual this past week and it’s starting to seep in a little. The first thing I always ask of my tribe is to “Name three things that…