Self-Care

We all know how important sleep is, but why is it for those with sleeping issues, it can be one of the biggest challenges there is? Let's dive into some unique tips for falling asleep including Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the acupressure points they massage to induce sleepiness. I'm excited to share with you what I've learned and how it has helped me.

Welcome to Season one of my self-care series: Physical Self Care. You may see "bloody fingers" and suck a quick breath in and want to look away, but I would like to raise awareness on this topic and the effects it can bring.

This ancient Egyptian method for hair removal has lasted this long for a reason. It is relatively easy to use with the right technique and better for the body. Clean-up may still be a little sticky but it comes right off with a little hot water. You can purchase sugar wax at many local beauty supply stores such as Ulta. You can also make your own sugar wax mixture at home with just a few simple ingredients. I’ll share a recipe that works for me.

Welcome to Season one of my self-care series: Physical Self Care. This week I will be talking about skincare, something I'm really excited about. Apparently you guys are excited too, because in my poll on Instagram 88% of you said you wanted to learn about ingredients with me. I feel like within these past 4 weeks, I've already developed better eating, sleeping, and exercise habits (take a look at my previous blog posts for that information) and I'm ready to move onto something really fun, but also really important; our skin. A person's face is usually the first thing someone sees on a person. It can be the culprit of poor self esteem, or it can be something someone is proud of as they walk the streets. As I've gotten older, I've started to want to reach out into the world of skincare. But getting started can seem somewhat intimidating. Active ingredients, Acids, niacinamides, alcohols, what is safe and what is harmful? Can we really shrink pore size? Can wrinkles really be prevented? Lets first go through the basics and work our way up.

Welcome to Season one of my self-care series: Physical Self Care. This week is all about hair, and we're going to take a different approach to hair care. I have had some bad experiences with my hair a couple years ago, and it was quite scary. So I'm going to keep this article simple and talk about 5 things in my life that accumulated to hair loss, and 4 things that helped me grow my hair back. I will also share 5 ways to cope during the difficult time of waiting for the hair to grow back.

Welcome to Season one of my self-care series: Physical Self Care. This week I will be talking about exercise, a key to good health. Every week in this self care series I try to come up with a new goal for myself. I've already started eating at the same time every day (for the most part), have improved my sleep quality and am falling asleep faster, but this whole week I was struggling to come up with an exercise challenge. I even asked my friends on IG to give me some ideas. In this episode I am going to share what my personal goal was and how I suddenly at the end of the week switched gears. I will also get into some biological chemistry information that I learned and why I even went researching there in the first place. Lastly, I will share a little more personal information about myself as well as talk about how much exercise is the right amount.

The past few weeks have been wonderful. We have been focusing on physical self care and I have grown so much as a person and feel more comfortable in my skin. I have better eating, sleeping and exercise habits. My skincare routine is on point. My nails are thriving. I have more energy. Now that I have taken care of myself physically, one step at a time, it is time to move onto the bigger stuff. The things that are not so easy to control... my mind.

We've been hearing this phrase a lot. Practice self care, love yourself, give yourself "me time", be mindful. But in reality, self care is so much more than just having a cup of tea or applying a face mask. It's so much more than taking 3 deep breaths. It's a complete mindset and lifestyle change. In my future self care series, I'm going to be taking on self care in four categories: physically, mentally, emotionally and environmentally.

"Journal writing allows you to write down your experiences and thoughts and use them to identify your future goals and aims. Writing down even everyday experiences helps in identifying various mistakes that have been made or decisions that have proven to be unfruitful." (Spreeder, Why you need to write a journal).

Welcome to Season one of my self-care series, where we learn to hit pause and take care of ourselves. As I stated in my blog post last week, self-care is so much more than just getting your nails done or taking the time to read a good book. Its a whole new mindset, and a lot of work physically, mentally, emotionally, and environmentally. That's why I started this series, mainly for myself due to my anxiety and depression issues. In this process, I will experiment and document what things work and what things don't work for me, but might work for someone else. If you are reading this right now, I am so excited. I am so grateful. And I am so touched. If you choose to try this self care series with me, or even just pick up little things here and there from my research, I am even more ecstatic.