For a long time, I was never a fan of Mondays. I always dreaded when the day would come because I knew that, that meant it was the start of a new week, which meant that I had 5 whole days to go before I got to the weekend again. Mondays have always been hard days for me because I would be so tired and not ready to start a whole new week at all. I got use to relaxing and being lazy over the weekend that I never did anything to prepare myself for the week ahead. And this wasn’t only as a teenager, this lasted for most of my young adulthood as well.

However, the reality is that Mondays is a day of the week that can’t be skipped over. Whether we like it or not we have to greet Monday in order to greet any of the other days of the week. For those of us for usually don’t look forward to Mondays, what do we do about it? We create a routine that helps us prepare for the week ahead.

This routine needs to consists of various self-care practices that will help you get ready for the week ahead. It’s important to have a routine that helps you unwind from a busy weekend, or to restore energy from a relaxing weekend, because it’ll also help you reset and be emotionally, physically, and mentally prepared for the upcoming week.

Sounds daunting but it’s a lot easier than you think. Continue reading to learn what I do to get ready for the new week. You may just find that you can incorporate some of these practices as your own. [Read more…]

If you’ve been following my blog for a while now then you know that I constantly talk about self-care and why it’s so important. Even if you’re not hearing about the importance of self-care from my blog, or the internet, or any form of social media, chances are you’re hearing about it somewhere.

There used to be a time when I was so confused about why everyone would talk about self-care so much. I’d go to the doctor and my doctor would always tell me to make sure that I was engaging in self-care. I’d hear it from my teachers all the time (college and graduate school), that self-care was so important and it was something we needed to do more of in order to be the best therapist, coach, counselor, or whatever we wanted to be, that we could be.

Believe it or not I even got told from my acting teacher about the importance of self-care, and that we (her students) needed to be doing it as often as we possibly could.

Self-care has been a popular topic in my life for a while now, and honestly up until about a year ago I wasn’t even the best at it. In fact, I had no idea what self-care was, what it looked like, or what constituted for self-care, that I didn’t even start engaging in it religiously until earlier this year. This was because it took me a while to really understand just exactly what real self-care meant, and to identify what that looked like for me. [Read more…]