Look at You Girl
Look at you.
You’re incredible.
This is your friendly reminder to NOT discount your efforts to take care of yourself.
Because I know you’re not getting reminded enough of how much your efforts count. Even when they feel too small and too insignificant for you to feel like they matter or will make a difference.
Taking time out of your day to take care of your health, to workout, to eat well and make sure everything else in your life is handled is not a small feat. It’s not something to be discounted or ignored.
More often than not, we don’t give ourselves any credit for all the things we do.
We feel like it’s the expectation that we’ll just handle everything even at the cost of our own health and wellbeing. We know that without us, the things that matter wouldn’t get handled.
So that chaos of managing our circuses becomes an expected part of life. It doesn’t mean we do it alone, but it does mean that our focus more on those things than the things we need.
It’s just our nature right? Make sure everyone else is handled before we give anything to ourselves and if we run out of hours in the day taking care of everyone else well then…oh well.
It’s the thought that “if I have enough time, I’ll take care of me” with the caveat of knowing taking care of me means everyone else is already taken care of.
When you’re being diligent about your health and mindfully planning taking care of yourself into your day, don’t discount that effort.
Don’t downplay it, don’t ignore it, and don’t think it doesn’t matter.
Even if it feels like you’re making baby steps forward, they’re still steps forward.
