Self-care for Single mums
Self-care , in my book, is more than just doing something nice for yourself when you can it is instead about taking your power back. As single mothers, raising kids, running a household and being the sole income earner with financial obligations coming out of every orifice (pardon my French!) - on top of everything else going on in our world - we often give our power away by focussing solely on everyone else’s needs and ignore our own. And I think we often know it too, but are at loss for how to change things for the better. We are told in so many circles that we need to ‘do self-care’ by choosing something from a lovely list of things like going for a walk, hugging a tree, stretching, yoga, reading a book, having a bubble bath and more. And these things are just fantastic and, by all means, choose one or more from those lists that call to you and do them as often as you can. I’m all for that! A Deeper Perspective In this blog however, I want to give a deeper perspective on the concept...