I have not always valued self-care. In fact, for most teenage and adult life I have devalued it - believed my "can-do" mentality, self-will, intellect, and general emotional fortitude could get me through anything. After a series of life experiences and events over the past 10 years, I began (thankfully) to question those beliefs and began to explore ways to better take care of myself. 

Even after I started "getting" the connection between taking care of myself and what that allowed me to do and experience in life, it took some real exploration to discover the "right" forms of self-care specific to me along with when and how to adjust those forms based on what was pulling at me in life. And, now, I teach and coach others about why self-care is critical (not over-exagerating there) to the quality of their lives (in all aspects) and how that directly affects how they show up to the important things in their lives (children, partners, work, self, community, etc.).

Here's a blog post that I wrote about self-care several months ago. And, below are two upcoming ways to begin to explore and choose self-care for yourself. I'd love to see you at one or both events. 


, always.
Ellie