This idea of self care is all the rage, isn’t it? I get it, I hesitated to borrow it myself, and still, the more I contemplated what self care really means, how the science says it works, and why it helps with mental health, wholeness, and happiness – I was nerdy for it.
Any intervention that is simple, sustainable, and best yet, free – I’m down for it.
As my fantastic web designer and developer – Digitally Distilled – and I were pulling ExOr together, I discovered that May is Mental Health Awareness month. Delightful, I thought. Another reason to explore Mental Health Matters. Sad, I contemplated, that I hadn’t known that already.
Listen, we all struggle. For some of us it’s episodic, but for others it’s a chronic condition. Either way, pain is real and should be seen and valued.
I’ve come to learn that one way or another, if one’s wounds are unattended, they find a way to make themselves known – sometimes in the most dramatic of ways – like when I had my first panic attack in the middle of a benign load of laundry.