Summary: Sometimes we can find ourselves reaching for a bowl of chocolate, scrolling through social media, or checking out for the night, and call that self-care. But that is really self-comfort and only serves to numb the discomfort instead of fixing it. Self-care is tuning into ourselves and finding out what we need to do to care for ourselves. Listen in as I discuss self-care and self-love, and how that has changed over the years since our mothers were young.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Main topics:<br> <br> * The difference between self-care and self-comfort<br> * Meeting our needs and our capacity (window of tolerance)<br> * Accepting cheap substitutes to meet our needs<br> * What we think it means when our needs are going unmet<br> * The culture of moms meeting their needs, is it intuitive? <br> * What we learn from our mothers about self-care and self-love<br> * Why the term self-love feels challenging. <br> <br> <br> Related links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/content/dam/socialwork/home/self-care-kit/self-care-assessment.pdf">Self-care assessment </a><br> * Is self care the answer when motherhood sucks? (<a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/lost-in-motherhood-find-yourself/">blog post</a>)<br> * Understanding how the window of tolerance impacts your stress in motherhood <a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/window-of-tolerance-motherhood/">(episode)</a><br> * How to find confidence in being the mom you are <a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/confidence-intentional-motherhood/">(episode)</a><br> * Being a mom on purpose (it is not about happy, obedient kids) (<a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/mom-on-purpose-intentional/">episode</a>)<br> * <a title="67. Making motherhood harder than it needs to be (Mom Martyr)" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/mom-matryr-motherhood-hard/">67. Making motherhood harder than it needs to be (Mom Martyr)</a><br> * The<a href="https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18207516670239537/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> highlight reel</a> of moms talking about self-care and meeting their needs <br> <br> <br> <br> Simple Saturdays email (<a href="https://intentional.simpleonpurpose.ca/simplesaturdays">sign up here</a>)<br> <br> Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/simpleonpurpose.ca">message me on IG</a>)<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> FULL TRANSCRIPT (unedited)<br> We're gonna continue on with our series about meeting your needs. And I want to talk more about self care and self love and how this is about it. But it's also not about it. The whole series, meeting your needs, I don't think that is one that I would listen to if I saw that title sounds kind of weird to say, but I think many mums might feel this way you see something on meeting your needs, and you might think, I don't need that things are fine. Or there might be some resistance, because you're kind of worried is this another pitch for that self care, self love, do face masks in the bath, treat yourself, you deserve it love yourself, you're amazing. We are a little bit worried about where this is going to take us. Because I think some of us know that. That self care, self love cannot be an entire approach to living. There's parts that are so helpful, for sure. But the approach needs more to it, it kind of feels like thin ice over water. But we need that iceberg. Underneath we need that iceberg of values and beliefs. We need awareness, validation, radical acceptance before we move into self care and self love. So as I move forward with this topic of meeting your needs, I want to approach this topic from the work I've done with moms of all ages and stages all over the world. And that's the approach of addressing the overwhelm the stress, the expectations, the mental load that moms are under.
