"We all know that self-care is important, but most of us fail to grasp how deeply impactful and strenuous it is to honor what is authentically best for us. I hope in this article to transform how you see self-care, and to create a healthy fear of self-neglect because it does nothing less than destroy our happiness and capacity to give to others."
"Patterns of Self-Neglect Start Young Often, it takes a breaking point to finally surrender and prioritize our well-being. I see this with my clients more than ever. Maybe it's a whopper panic attack, a ruptured relationship, or an illness, but unfortunately, so many of us need to reach desperation to finally break the barriers we have to care properly for ourselves."
"I recently found myself back as a freshman at self-care when I noticed how burned out I was. The writing projects and being there for others, which I typically love in my depths, fell flat. I realized that a very young part of me had taken control of the wheel. She's the one who believes that "more" is better, that doing is what makes me valuable, and that it's okay to ignore the wellsprings that feed my body and soul."
Self-care forms the essential foundation for feeling powerful, happy, and capable of giving to others. Patterns of self-neglect often start young and can require a breaking point—panic, illness, or relational rupture—to force change. Chronic overdoing and basing worth on productivity or others' opinions erode well-being. Recovering self-care demands courage to resist external validation and to tend to the body and soul. Spiritual grounding can strengthen confidence to choose self-care and enable genuine giving. Valuing humility and surrender over material gain reframes self-care as serious, necessary work for full potential and sustained generosity.
Read at Psychology Today
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