As a self care coach, I help women set up healthy self-care habits to maximize well-being, creativity, and productivity. Self-care is all about really getting to know yourself, your needs, and your potential. This requires that you become aware of your limiting beliefs and your negative habits that stand in the way of your happiness and well-being. You may have heard this phrase before and it’s true: the only thing standing in the way of fulfilling your true potential is YOU—and the habits you have created.
Your habits include lifestyle habits such as your diet and work-rest-play patterns. They ALSO include internal habits such as your thoughts and beliefs about yourself.
That’s why self-care has many layers to it. You can practice self-care by creating new and positive habits, make changes to your lifestyle, and include supportive rituals and routines into your daily life.
However, when you’re not good at taking care of yourself, there often is a deeper cause too. This usually traces back into childhood where you either didn’t learn HOW to take care of yourself or where you learned to make yourself small.
This then results in issues later in life such as:
- Low self-esteem
- Dependency
- Toxic relationships
- Lack of boundaries
- Anxiety
- Over-achieving
- Being very hard on yourself
- Lack of self-love
- Depression
- Burning yourself out
- Stress