When my business coach asked me “What do you do for self care?” I cringed as I typically do when I hear a buzzword. She noticed. This is when my coach stepped in and offered up a reframe. “What if you thought of self care more like leader care? How are you taking care of the leader within you?”
That resonated, and maybe it will with you as well. I let go of the pressure of making sure my self care was approved by everyone else and reframed it to “leader care.” I feel energized after I get my work done. I feel satisfied when I create something new. I feel seen and nurtured when I have calls with my coach. Those things really have taken care of me, but they don’t fall into the traditional self care bucket and therefore weren’t valid to others.
However, the leader in me sometimes needs to stop in the middle of the day to take a really hot bath and think - and that’s ok too. The latest Instagram influencer might tell you a face mask is what you need in order to take care of yourself, but if you need something a bit deeper - you do you.When things get chaotic and stressful, stopping to get a massage might be the least helpful thing you can do. Julie Longyear - Herbal Chemist, Formulator and Founder ofsays, “We have to look for what resources we each have and then think creatively how those can be applied.
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