JolieLife 101: What is Self-Care

Self-care is practicing caring for yourself as you would a dear friend.  You make self care a priority because when you feel good and good about yourself you are naturally kinder to yourself and others.  If you have a hard time seeing the correlation, think about when you are hangry - you act angry not because you want to bite someone’s head off, but because your deprivation, hunger, makes it hard to be kind.

Likewise, when we feel like the best version of ourselves, kindness and giving flow more abundantly and effortless from us.  Self-care will energize and recharge you because it turns us on and makes us present to our lives.

You don’t need a lot of free time or to start a new exercise routine, or start eating clean to engage in caring for yourself - in fact, all of those things are usually the effortless outflow of self-care. cared for and good.

with love + light,
​Julia