SelfCareSchool.co.uk's Self Care Sundays Postcards: 23rd July 2023 TLDR link page

Sometimes criticising ourselves can be a habit rather than a conscious choice, and I have found it is useful to create disruptors to pattern

life is that it involves a full load of different emotions. There is fear, anger, disappointment, confusion, excitement, apathy, joy

We are told that we need to constantly monitor what we eat, how much we exercise, and how our bodies look. All of which often includes...

The reason why we make things really complicated is because we think that there's a right decision and a wrong decision.

Saying goodbye is hard. But in the words of an author who is beloved to me, Cheryl Strayed “Sometimes you need to be willing to break...

It can be exhausting trying to take jigsaw together life, work, health, family and the cost of living, And this can be this underlying back

We've all experienced feeling overwhelmed and having a never-ending to-do list. If you don't want this to be your narrative forever, perhaps

By calling it “emotional baggage”, we immediately label the emotions as heavy, inconvenient, cumbersome, and something to be manoeuvred.

have you ever stopped to think about why you look for external validation? It's easy to fall into this trap, especially when we're feeling

Connection is vital to happiness and fulfilment, it's not always that easy to connect with others, especially when we feel disconnected

Very few revolutionaries have ever sat around thinking, “Well, this is all really big, so I may as well not try."

Even though these lovely inspirational quotes on our wall might be something that we can see the benefit of, if we were to believe them.

the truth is that underneath the words, is the thinly veiled whisper “I don't like how I look.” - which is what so many of us are taught to

How many times have you caught yourself or noticed or acknowledged yourself paying for things in a restaurant you couldn't afford.

I wonder how much looking at big groups of people and claiming to know what they're thinking is a dopamine reward and helps us feel safe in

the circumstances around you can change, but if you are still having the same old thoughts (hello ingrained beliefs) you’ll still feel

ne of the ways that you can find a connection to some of these words is just to find some incremental, neutral thoughts that are more in the

When we stack up obligations, and we know full well that we give ourselves a terrible time when we get things wrong it feels dangerous

When we prioritise self-care, we give ourselves the space and time we need to recharge and refocus. This, in turn, helps us build