Self-Care or Self-Nurturing? Between Breaks and Productivity

Self-care in everyday life – a buzzword?

Do you want to help people connect with themselves?
To connect with nature? To meet one another?
Self-care is an important component.
Even though it has become fashionable and is proclaimed everywhere that it’s not selfish. The phrase “You can’t pour from an empty cup” has been repeated so often that self-care almost gets a bad reputation.

Self-Care Between Intention and Reality

Self-care in everyday life is more of an intention than a lived reality for many. Good intentions, and then you constantly find yourself doing things? You start the day early, even marking a workout or a walk in your calendar. But then you tell yourself: just quickly this email, this invoice, this post. And suddenly it’s time for the next appointment – or just enough time for quick shopping and cooking. In the evening, you usually go to bed later than is good for you.

Balancing Between Doing and Being

I found myself in this dilemma – and blamed myself for not being in alignment with what I actually want to realize. If I don’t live it myself, who will take me seriously if I don’t take myself seriously?
A coaching conversation with Karin suddenly opened my eyes: The part that drives me to constantly do things also just wants to take care of me. It wants everything to be well prepared, everything ready for starting self-employment. And I realized: It’s also self-care – just different.

One Need – Multiple Strategies

As with all needs, there are different strategies. In my case, I discovered two:

  • constantly doing until everything is finished – a strategy to calm my system in these unfamiliar waters of becoming self-employed
  • sports, yoga, and walking

I can consciously decide what takes priority today: Today it’s important to make progress with back-office work and texts. Or I treat myself to a break after lunch with a walk in nature, because I know – that stimulates my creativity, and afterward I find new ideas and solutions.

Self-Care in Everyday Life: Very Practical

A few ideas of what I like to do for myself:

  • Physical well-being through market shopping: good food for the coming week
  • Emotional well-being by attending cultural events, like “Cagliostro,” ideally with friends – beauty and magic.
  • Mental well-being: Lazy reading (Sunday) evenings on the sofa

And you, what good things do you do for yourself?

How else could you take good care of yourself?

Photo Credits: Evelyn Binder

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