More Self-Care, Less Rush Rush Stress and Anxiety

I am still learning about self-care and self-love. I mean, I know what those things mean, and I’m getting better and being kind to myself in all of my moods and modes. BUT… I am not very nice to myself when I start assessing where I am in life, where I am in my progress towards world dominations, and where I am in terms of my love life. I’m not very good at managing those things in my adult life.

Self-care

Let’s start with how well we take care of ourselves. I was talking to a friend today about their routine and why I thought they might want to consider enhancing their diet along with doing a tiny bit of exercise, regardless of how they felt about doing either of those things. “I don’t cook,” he said. “Well, my friend, you cannot live or be happy eating microwave dinners, even from Whole Foods.”

“I know,” he said, “But I don’t like vegetables.”

“Same,” I replied. “Except, vegetables are not optional. They are a must-have. And vitamins and smoothies, and green supplements aren’t going to hack it in our modern stress-filled world. We need to learn to take chare of our food intake. We need to eat more vegetables and less meat, and zero saturated fats and zero empty carbs. We’ve got to take charge of the things we can. And, while cooking is not natural to me, it is actually pretty…