This has been the kind of week where I coach two people before I can even grab coffee! I feel like its been full throttle, lots of tasks to complete, interruptions, and possibilities. My schedule changed February 1 and I’m still getting used to it. With change comes choices, and two of the choices I’ve been actively making are 1. To sleep enough. 2. To eat enough.
I am aware that these are subjective goals. But their aim is the same: to provide consistent and balanced energy throughout my day. I have been reminded lately that not eating enough interrupts the body’s processes, including the ability to sleep through the night. Sleep is the body’s time to restore itself. Without the nutrients the body needs needs to restore its self, it can’t. Without the time to rest through sleep, it cant.
We all struggle with change because it takes a while to rewrite the neuro-pathways in the brain. It is easy to judge ourselves, and each other, for not achieving change as quickly as desired. It can be easy to hate change because it can be such a difficult process. In fact, I’ve found that humans tend to avoid change until staying the same is more painful than walking through the process of change. Which is why during this season of changes in my daily and weekly schedules I have been choosing to support the one thing I cannot allow to change: my health. I need to remain healthy and strong to accomplish all I need to do. I want to remain healthy and strong because I love me. Thus I choose to care for my self in a way that will keep me healthy and strong by prioritizing sleep and adequate nutrition during this season of change.
I am all too aware that when people think of self care they think of luxuries big and small. I too struggle with this because I do love little treats. But self care is also the tough love of making the better choice when we want to “treat” ourselves to the easy. “I’ll treat me to brownies tonight because ______.” When we know that the better choice may be foregoing it. But to truly love one self, to care for one self, to value one self as worthy is to acknowledge that we are worthy of the tough choices. Instead of “treating” myself to one more episode of my current binge I’m going to turn it off, do my yoga, do my nightly supplements/face/teeth/essential oils routine, and get myself in bed in time to get my needed sleep. Choosing priorities and routine during a season of change is self care. Choosing to accept the change and the modifications that are necessary is self care. Choosing to care for me in the most basic ways during turbulent times is self care. Its not glamorous or Insta worthy. But I am worthy of it.
So what basic self care are you choosing today? Let me know in the comments below!
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