Self-Care
Supporting our Mind, Body and Spirit
What is Self-Care?
Our relationship with ourselves…
Self care is often taught from a point of view of developing skills, practices or finding something external to ourselves to soothe or cope or decrease experiencing our pain. But fundamental to Self care is caring for oneself - cultivating a loving relationship with ourselves in which we have the capacity to feel our pain and meet our own needs. These resources become self care when we mindfully connect with ourselves, identify our unmet needs and then respond lovingly to meet these needs for ourselves. This cultivates a new loving and responsive relationship with ourselves, a relationship we often did not consistently get as children, a relationship with our whole selves at every age and stage of development.
Mind
We all experience suffering and trauma, which informs how we cope and relate with ourselves and others.
What am I feeling and needing?
How do I cope?
How do I connect?
What does it mean to be loving?
These resources on feelings and needs, attachment, trauma states, dependency/codependency and narcissism help answer these questions and give practices for healing…
Body
We all live in a body that needs nourishment and care -
one of my favorite definitions of nourishment
comes from my dear friend, and health coach, Robyn Landis:
“Nourishment is everything
you put in, on and around you.”
This includes food, clothes, beauty products, relationships,
the environment in which we live…
and so much more…
Spirit
At the core of being able to care for ourselves is the practice of awareness. The meditation and mindfulness practices provided here help cultivate
a state of staying
alert & relaxed,
present & responsive
to what we are feeling and needing
in each moment.
This practice provides the foundation from which we can actually
respond and care for ourselves…
