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Making progress with Self-care

    I know I've taken a few months break from my blog and that isn't because I'm super forgetful, well I mean i am, but the reason is because not up until recently have i actually started to make some progress again and not so stuck in the depression. want to know the secret? it's been around all along I just somehow keep forgetting about it and its importance. Self-care. it sounds silly and so cliché but I'm telling you recently I've started eating a healthier breakfast and choosing healthier snacks instead of my swiss rolls, made extra time for myself to practice my morning yoga and for a few days I've been doing really well and I'm proud of myself. I even started working again and have even been able to obtain some clients of my own! Its stressful sometimes like the days I'm really struggling and don't even want to get out of bed i just get up and tackle it and I'm really happy I've taken this step and have made a little reputation for myself. I know to a lot of you it sounds like such an easy step that almost seems normal but to come from a relationship where i physically wasn't able to work, I couldn't. My ex questioned my every move to where i wasn't able to leave the house without him or he would freak out on me. That was my life for over 7 years it just became to where I just always had someone to take care of me, not happily, because I was treated as if i was a burden for not working and it was somehow all my fault? Sometimes I think back on my life and how it use to be and it scares me how brainwashed i really was. Thinking about some of the stuff I use to put up with but now can so easily tell when something isn't right but when you have someone constantly gaslighting you for years you start to doubt yourself and truly think everything is your fault. Fast forward to now and seeing how i am now i never want to forget. I also been trying to talk to God a lot more and that's been giving me a lot of inner peace. I'm so grateful on the progress, even little, I have made on my life. becoming more mentally aware of my feelings and understanding that your mental health really does make a difference. take it from someone who literally stopped everything self-care and just started doing what everyone else wanted of me. 
Take the time to read that book you've been wanting, stretch, take the alone time and learn to appreciate it rather than fear it, make time for yourself. Do what makes you happy and don't feel selfish for it. I'm making a serious effort to make this self-care thing a regular part of my routine cuz I like how I've been feeling recently. So, color that damn coloring book and sing loudly to your favorite songs in the shower. Buy yourself flowers and write little love notes on what you love about yourself to stick to your mirror. So many ways you can give yourself that little extra love we probably all have been needing right now. 
    This is a reminder to you and even me is that we all should love ourselves and that there is nothing wrong with taking extra time for yourself, you'll feel better I promise.

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