What Exactly is Self-Care?

Happy February! we are starting a new month, and you know that that means a new newsletter topic. February is the month of love, now putting hallmark aside and Valentine's day traditions. I think having a month where we celebrate love is a great thing - this includes love for others, for animals, for the environment, and of course, love for yourself. 

Humans can feel so many different emotions, but the feeling of love is perhaps the most powerful – probably because there’s so much passion wrapped up in it that love can make us act differently than we usually might.

When many of us think of “love” we think about how to love others – but during the next few weeks, I'm going to be talking about the importance of loving yourself as well.

One way to love yourself is by making self-care a must in your daily routine. The term “self-care” is thrown around a lot, but what exactly does it mean?

Self-care is the practice of taking an active role and making a priority protecting one’s well-being and happiness, in particular during times of stress. Whatever that care is, care means different things for different people, but it generally, it falls into the following categories:

• Being more physically active to care for your mind and body.
• Doing exercises to take care of your mind and manage emotions
• Cutting toxic people from your life
• Taking a break when you need it
• Maintaining a healthier diet
• Learning to say “no”
• Moving away from harmful habits and behaviors
• Treating yourself to things that make you happy

There are many ways you can choose to self-care. The idea is that you take the time to do it daily. You are important and you deserve to practice self-care daily

What’s your favorite way to practice self-care? What’s a new way you plan to practice self-care?

Remember, I'm always here to help if you have any self-care questions email me at Toni@drToniCamacho.com

See you next week,
Toni