If you grew up in a family where your needs were seen as unimportant and you were asked to suppress those needs in order to please others, you may relate to what it is like to feel you need to be a people pleaser.
Approval seeking and people pleasing are wicked habits.
Life can be traumatic and wounding and may interfere with our natural ability to feel confident and capable. Sometimes it can feel like we have lost access to our own wisdom. It can feel like a siren overpowering and drowning out the quiet voice inside telling us the things we know to be true.
Underneath figuring out how to fit all of life into our new framework of days, our wisdom remains; no one can take it away.
Self-care is much more than a facial or a pedicure (though those are two really lovely examples!). Self-care at it's truest is saying no to something requested or demanded or expected by others in order to say yes to our own emotional, physical and mental well being.
Self care sits opposite the defense mechanisms of people pleasing and approval seeking.
In self care....
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