Self Care: Know Your Value

What is Self Care?

Self Care is practice of doing things that improve your mental and physical health and increase your innate self value.

Why is Self Care Important?

Self Care is important because how you treat yourself largely contributes to your overall self worth. You are the most important person in your life. We often sacrificing ourselves for others, for things we don’t want to do, and to ways we don’t want to feel. When we do this we aren’t communicating our value to others or to ourselves. Don’t say no to yourself at the expense of someone else.

Mistake to avoid when practicing self care

looking for validation
comparing yourself to others
putting yourself down/last

When you don’t consider your wants and needs before someone else your value is decreased. When you allow people who don’t treat you well continue to have access to you, your essence is dimmed.

not checking in with yourself

Your value contributes to your overall worth and when you start to value yourself, your worth increases as a result.

Think of it in terms of supply and demand.

Today you’re going to stop sacrificing yourself for others, for things you don’t want to do, and to ways you don’t want to feel.

Every time you say yes to someone else when you really didn’t want to, you are saying no to yourself.

is the act of giving up something highly valuable for the sake of something else considered to have a greater value or claim.

Your self worth is determined by how you treat yourself.

When you don’t consider your wants and needs before someone else your value is decreased.

When you allow people who don’t treat you well continue to have access to you, your essence is dimmed.