Setting Personal Boundaries
What Are Boundaries Personal boundaries are emotional, physical, and mental limits that each individual must establish based on their own needs and desires to protect him or herself from being used, manipulated or even...
Category: CoDependence
Codependency is characterized by a person belonging to a dysfunctional relationship where one person relies on the other for meeting nearly all of their emotional and self-esteem needs.
How to Move from Low to High Self Esteem
How can you tell if you have high self esteem or low self esteem? By definition, self-esteem is the value you place on your own worth. It impacts how you think, how you feel...
Be Nice to Yourself – 31 Practical Suggestions to Get Started
Life can be complicated. The only person you are going to be in a relationship with your whole life long is yourself. So it’s simply going to go a lot better if you learn...
Start a Journal and Improve Self Reflection
Has “start a journal” been on your to-do list or self-improvement plan for a while now? Has your critical inner voice been whispering thoughts such as “journaling is supposed to be easy, why...
11 Self Care Strategies to Put Yourself First
The ability to set goals and achieve them requires mustering up the courage to take responsibility for your life. That involves putting yourself first. By putting yourself first, you are simply making it a...
Dare to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
Comfort. Who doesn’t love comfort? Comfort is a good thing. But in order to learn and grow, you will need to step out of your comfort zone from time to time. You want to...
Stop Saying Yes When You Mean No
Do you say yes to things and then immediately think, “Why did I do that?!!!!” Do you say yes to projects when you’re already running on empty so you know you can’t do your...
Identifying Hidden Barriers to Self Care
Despite your deepest desire to nurture yourself and take good care of your mental and physical health, there are things that will inevitably come between you and your best intentions. Many of these are...
Self Care From Head to Toe
Let’s face it. You’re exhausted and stressed out. There’s never enough time to go around. You’re on an endless hamster wheel of items to do. You need a comprehensive plan of self care from...
What Self Care Is and Is Not
Self-Care IS an Antidote to Chronic Stress Many people suffer from a wide variety of stress factors today. It can come in so many different forms: internal, external, from school, from work, from relationships,...