Treehouse I love your quote I've re-read it many times...

When it comes to self care I think I struggle with letting myself be okay
with where I'm at... kind of like, since I am an Early Childhood Major we are
always talking about the developmental stages of children, and just like children,
we are all developing throughout life in different stages

like we don't expect a baby who can't walk to run
or a baby who can't crawl to walk,

developmentally, this baby cannot even do these things yet...

Yes, as adults, we are more mature beings but,
we all still go through different stages of life...

and sometimes going through one stage ( even a bad one) helps
us get to the next one more smoothly...

so yes, taking care of myself.. when I think of working on that quality in myself
it would be to be more accepting of myself and where I'm at.

I also think that sometimes self care doesn't have to be planned so detailed..
sometimes just jumping up on instinct and doing something that truly makes you
happy inside is really good for us....

cliched or not.. I guess I'm saying we should be silly sometimes, laugh, --let the kid in all of us come out... just play.. it's so funny, as children we expected to get some of our needs met ( unless a parent just didn't treat us properly) Somehow, when we become adults all of this get's stifled. Now, we have to really, really think about what to do to take care of ourselves or have fun. In reality though, when you we're a kid you didn't think about not doing what made you happy...you didn't go through the reasons why other people deserve more then you did or didn't... you just did it.! .. you just did those inate things/gifts inside of you that made you happy... However, I know for many of us we didn't have the opportunity to be this kind of kid, if that was you--go outside, go to a mall, just go somewhere, and take a peek at a healthy child...that freedom to just do what makes you happy without thinking too hard...

to me, is self care.

just my two cents... lol. i know it could be a stretch.

Truly, I just feel when you accept yourself-- self care is more complete-- you can't even complete this process without first doing what you need to do to be okay with where your at, where your going, all your beauty, all your scars, all of it, all of the things that make you human. I just don't think we can one day just jump up and start taking care of ourselves without first accepting where we are at on our healing journey and being okay with it.

And of course, it's taking care of those basic needs... if we haven't started that yet, I too think, doing the extra fun stuff will be harder.