One of the most important relationships in your life is the one you have with yourself. How often do you nourish it? How often do you make yourself, or your own happiness, a priority? You spend a lot of time giving. Giving yourself to others, your work. Life gets busy and you often put yourself last. You sometimes commit to doing things you don’t feel like doing. Some days, you can’t help but beat yourself up over a stupid mistake…
Resting against the warm radiator, reading books while sipping peppermint tea and snacking on sugar cookies. Growing up, that was my ideal recipe for a crappy day. I guess I had my little self-care survival kit (which included Harry Potter books and my favorite peppermint tea) long before I knew what self-care was. If you want to practice more kindness toward yourself, creating a self-care kit is a great place to start. What’s a self-care kit? Think of it as…
“Promise me something. Promise me that you’ll always have fun, that you’ll always have a heart of a kid, that you won’t change.” These words were spoken to me by one of my very good friends. It’s been over ten years since that moment, yet I remember it as clear as it happened yesterday. It wasn’t until recently, that I started to wonder; what does that mean, anyway? I mean, you can’t always have fun, can you? You can’t help, but…
True story: Monday is one of my favorite days of the week. Everyone always looks at me like I’m insane, whenever I mention this. I get that. Admittedly, I was once one of those people who lived for their weekends. I’d run on an autopilot mode during the week- literally. I’d get in my car, drive to work and think, as I pulled into the parking lot, “how did I get here already?”. All I thought about was that getting through this…
I love spending time alone. As long as it doesn’t involve me leaving my house. Whenever Mark wants to go somewhere where I know we can expect crowds I always tell him: “but… but there are people there and I’ll have to interact and stuff“. It’s become somewhat of a running joke in my family. We’d go out to dinner and someone will suddenly look at me and say “Paula! I see people!” So yeah, I’m a bit (or a…