Welcome to Your True Self Blog where age doesn’t matter…except when it comes to the Coronavirus. Since this pandemic hit the world and eventually the place where I live, fear and anxiety have become a real tangible issue: first when people panicked and cleared the shelves of everything we needed at the stores, and then when each one of us in my family began to realize the possibilities of what it will do to us. So what are the best ways to calm our fear and anxiety?
I was going to research all the best ways and post them all here. But then, I decided to just share my story and the ways that my family is coping with the fear. As I did, I came up with 17 of the best ways to calm our fear and anxiety. There are many more. I welcome you to leave your ideas in a reply below this post! Continue Reading
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Here I am at the American Polish Century Club at the annual Wigilia, the traditional Polish Christmas feast. We had 11 dishes served at the dinner this year. Now I’m looking forward to our family Wigilia, where a couple of dozen members of my extended family will gather on Christmas Eve. Because of all the cooking and feasting and merry-making, I will take Christmas Day off from blogging for the first time since I started Your True Self Blog. So before I go celebrate, I want to send my gift to you: wishes for happy holidays!
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My son, Chris, and I have been making health goals together each month for years. I wrote about our experiences with this in my Health Goal Diary here on the blog. It has made a big difference in our health habits, especially with diet and exercise.
It has been beneficial to both of us. Age doesn’t matter. Besides keeping us healthy, it has kept our weight down and made us look our best.
We took a break when the weather got cold in the fall and the holidays rolled around. We got busy, sick, and then surrounded by holiday feasts and goodies.
When we decided to take a break from making health goals, we had a conversation about how overwork was taking a toll on us. Self care was lost in the shuffle and we needed to find time for ourselves and our needs. It was a goal that has not been easy to achieve.
Intending to think about what I needed to do to make time for myself, I dove right back into my work and never gave it another thought. So I’m taking a moment in writing this post about self care to explore what I need to do that I haven’t been doing all this time. I’m hoping this will be helpful to you as well.
Included is:
- What happens when we don’t make time for ourselves?
- Personal examples, both unsuccessful and successful.
- The basics of self care.
- Self-care tips based on specific needs.
- 20 general self-care tips.
As you read on, you’ll find more and more helpful information beyond what you might already think of, which I hope will inspire you with some helpful ideas.
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