Ask yourself, “What do I need at this moment?”

This is how you really practice real self-care. Get in touch with your feelings and actual needs. Most of us reach for all that fake self-care as a way to cover up what we’re feeling. Reach for something that will help you experience your emotions. Calling a friend, moving your body, meditating, journaling, and going…

Self-care not enough to beat depression

Self-care not enough to beat depression

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-hubble-anxiety-medication_us_5b3ba71ce4b09e4a8b27f269 At its worst, anxiety controlled my future. I always wanted to go backpacking, but travel had so many inherent risks: Open water was home to lurking sharks, every mosquito was loaded with a deadly tropical disease, my plane would crash, I would hurtle through the window of a taxi onto a dirt road and…