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How to Make Self-Care a Lifestyle Without Guilt.
Self-care is self-remembering.
Diets don’t work because they’re temporary; they are a pseudo-commitment.
For sustainable change, it’s your lifestyle that must change. It’s your identity that changes. You start to call yourself a healthy person and then act like healthy people do. More importantly, your mindset shifts from a victim mentality of punishment to an owner mentality of freedom.
Ultimately, your way of being changes. It is not one thing you do but a stacking of choices over your day that contributes towards your weight loss goal. It’s not just one meal but sleep, water, nutrition, and your emotional world — everything in the periphery done consistently will help you achieve this.
Self-care feels the same. You’ll do something now and then, but for this to become a way of life, you need to adopt self-care as a lifestyle, not something you’ll try and see how it goes.
It is more than fitting in some exercise, journaling or meditation in the morning. Have you considered the periphery factors you must focus on to enable self-care to become a lifestyle?
Here are new habits to convert self-care from a nice-to-have to a permanent fixture:
