Breathe

I want to be completely transparent with you all, my faithful readers.

Life is slightly complicated for me at the moment. I am struggling under the weight of external stressors.

I am completely fine, but I need to really just remember the importance of ‘self care’. Many of us have times where this journey of life can become quite messy and we have this crazy idea that we just have to keep pushing through. I have learned that when we keep pushing through we only do ourselves more damage. We also then render ourselves unable to journey well, through the mess.

I have also discovered that many people try to complicate self-care. I heard someone say just the other day “Well, when this and that are sorted then I will take some time for me”. It has often been my experience that until I take care of me, ‘this’ and ‘that’ will never get sorted.

Self care can be as simple as getting up from where you are sitting now – walking outside and looking up to the sky, or listening to the birds – trust me when you take the time to listen, even on the busiest of streets, you will hear them.

We cannot give out of an empty cup and when your cup is empty you need to fill it up again. So, my words of wisdom for today are, find out what fills your cup or what adds to your cup and take some moments to do it.

You are loved and treasured more than you know.