Self-Care is bunk.

Bubble baths. Scented candles. Mani-pedis. BUNK.

Now, I love a good massage or coffee date with a friend and it certainly feels good in the moment yet I find the next day…I’m back where I started.

Feeling stuck in life, suffering with feelings of inadequacy, overwhelm and being unfulfilled no matter what I do.

Can you relate?

I’m not saying you’re not worthy to treat yourself to an hour (maybe two) of relaxation with a massage – and it certainly can help down-regulate your central nervous system…

What I AM saying is that you’re worthy of a more sustainable, long-lasting, “feel it everyday” relief from stress, self-doubt and negative self-view.

What do you think about this?

self-awareness is the way to sustainable self-care

Self-awareness is conscious observation. Everything you experience runs through the filter of your past experiences and your mindset which acts as a lens of how you look at and perceive things.

Awareness interrupts the subconscious programming that is already in place and acts as a catalyst for changing or upgrading that programming.

Self-awareness helps you decide which programs you’d like to update to grow and experience life better.

Every experience in life has the potential to shake up, refine, strengthen, reinforce, and/or upgrade your programming.

You can experience self-awareness by tuning in and becoming an observer of your body, thoughts, emotions, beliefs, desires, behaviors, & your deep knowing or IT-Inner Truth. The very fact that you can observe these things means you are bigger than them and therefore have the power to reprogram them and to reprogram your mindset.¹

“Once your mindset changes,

everything on the outside will change along with it.” ~ Steve Maraboli

Your mindset can be an expression of a belief you hold and you can change your mindset by opening to and embracing a new belief.

When you wake to the day with an agile-growth mindset, self-awareness and the belief that you are enough in each moment you won’t turn to traditional self-care to fill you up – to fix you – to feel a tiny bit better in life.

You’ll experience that massage or bubble bath or coffee with a friend from a place of abundance versus burnout with the awareness that you’re already miraculous AND more is available to you if you so desire.

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¹ Thrive – a human development company