Self Care Club

This year I've been learning how to "self care" in a healthy way.

I don't make a lot of new years resolutions, but I knew this had to be the year that I take my self care seriously. I turned 25 this year and I just knew that this was the year to take control! I wanted to learn how to better take care of my mind, my body, my spirit, and my emotional state. So I made some goals to help me in this!

I have always struggled at some level with anxiety, but it has been pretty bad this year and has actually been affecting my physically more than it ever has. I knew at the beginning of the year that this was something I needed to focus on, but for me it is so easy to get overwhelmed and lose control of that. I love my job and I love to work, but with that I can easily overwork myself and start to lose control of my boundaries and that never works out for me. So that is something I'm currently working on, creating boundaries for myself and knowing when I need to take a break and rest before it's too late. I definitely don't know how to do this yet, but I'm putting it here in this post to keep me accountable. So any advice in this area is very much welcomed!

Another area of self care is taking care of my physical body! I have never been one to watch what I eat, or exercise, or even really care about what I look like. But these last few years I've not been taking care of myself in that way and I've started losing confidence in myself, and that's when I knew I needed to make a change! So I went to my husband and told him I needed help! He was a personal trainer when we were first married, loves going to the gym, and is really good about eating what his body needs and taking care of himself, so of course he's the guy I'm going to go to! So he's helped me put together a workout plan, and helped me find things to eat that are good for my body and will help me live my best life! It's crazy for me to say this, but he's actually helped me to love going to the gym! My goal is to go to the gym three times a week and get anywhere between 7k and 10k steps a day. I don't meet those goals as much as I want to, but I'm slowly getting back to feeling confident in my body and I'm so grateful for that!

My relationship with God is the most important thing in my life and the area I need to grow in the most! You can never fully know God, and there is always so much to learn! I felt like this last year I was lacking in my spiritual life and wanted to grow my relationship with God, so I found some friends and have started going to a Bible study and it has been the best thing for me! Being in community with other people who just want to know Jesus more has been so vital in my life and it's probably the best form of self care there is! Highly recommend this to everyone!

Our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit so we should treat them as such! Creating space for God to be the center of our life while honoring the life he's given us. These are just some ways I "self care" and ways I'm learning to do better. How do you self care?

thanks for reading

xoxo, talia

PS I found this super cute sweatshirt at H&M and knew I needed to have it! Grab one and join the "self care club" with me! Linked here.