From Emotional Shutdown to Self-Compassion: My Self-Care Evolution

Over the last two decades, I’ve learned to pay attention to signs from my body and my life that I need attention and/or that I need to ask for or seek additional help and support from safe sources. This attitude is a dramatic shift for me because for the 28 years...

Stop shaming you for having needs

Acknowledging that you have needs is like acknowledging that you breathe.  Do you know when you won’t have needs? When you’re dead.  From the moment we are born until we die, we have needs. And every single last thing that we do is about meeting a...