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The 5 Myths of Extreme Self Care: Part 1
…..(Or what kind of excuses can I come up with today?)
Myth: This make me feel too selfish!
Truth: If you don’t take care of you, who will?
It is human nature to take care of others first; normally it is our immediate or extended families. It is survival right, taking care of our offspring, making sure that humanity survives the big bad world. Okay back to reality now, in North America we don’t have to worry that much about surviving. We can find shelter, food, and clothes those most basic survival needs. So we can move past the “survival of fittest” and work on self care.
What would your family do, they are expecting you to take care of things, they are expecting you to cook, clean, do laundry, mend their bodies, help them feel better, get them over heart breaks and problems.
Ask yourself this… what would your family do if you died of a heart attack? Who would fix them then?
They would mourn and miss you, sure! You are a great person, well liked and dearly loved. But they would pick up their lives and move on. They would grow up and grow old, whether you are there or not. Wouldn’t you like to be there?
- What exactly have you done for yourself lately?
- How do you take care of yourself?
- How do you acknowledge yourself?
You are waiting for other people to do these things for you? Why, because you don’t deserve it, you are unworthy of it.
Wrong, you do deserve and are very worthy of some Extreme Self Care! This will be the turning point in your life!
There are many things that you can change about your life: jobs, careers, husbands/significant other, cities, countries, houses, cars… But does changing any or all of these things accomplish the feeling you are looking for? And if you make changes and do NOT change how you are taking care of yourself, does it really impact your life?
Things might change for awhile, but they return you right back to the same space unless you decide to change yourself. Changing how you treat the most important person in your life … YOU! Then and only then will things flow together and begin to feel like what you are looking for.
