Living Life: Self Care

Living Life:  Self Care

So far, in my blog life, I am averaging one post a year...it looks like I may be overdue for a post.  I crack up, because I realize that mostly, I write for myself.  It is hard for me to believe there were 260 views of the past two blogs...that made me feel extremely vulnerable, by the way--especially because there was not one comment!  Perhaps the lack of commenting spared me from the criticism that I may have deserved?  Who knows!  (I write for myself, yet, who am I talking to?  Strange...)  If you know my personality, this makes you laugh.  If you don't, you think I am crazy.  I can live with that.

What is going on with me...

Since August 2011, I launched into a new phase of life through a part-time position as a School Social Worker.  This was a dramatic shift from coordinating Mother's of Preschoolers and pouring into the lives of my household family members.  I started my Master's in Social Work at George Williams College, mostly three weekends a month, year-round in order to maintain an educational license to keep my job.

Living on the edge of busyness and chaos...it is what me and my husband of 19 years appear to continuously strive for...why?  Personality?  ADHD?  An odd love for self-inflicted chaos?  This one stumps me as it carries baggage for sure.  Yet, grace has always prevailed in our crazy endeavors and we continue to trudge on!

Having said all that...I move on to the reason for this post...THE NEED FOR SELF-CARE!

The next three weeks I am chronicling my journey of self-care.  My heart is longing to rekindle the relationships that I have sacrificed to this "careerish" journey, my 40 year old body is longing for healthy meals and exercise, and my soul is longing to rekindle connection in my walk with God and allow him to center me in his will.

This blog will be my accountability and my journal for me.  If you happen to stumble across it, I would hope that you would feel a spark for self-care as well, as this is the only life that we have and it is important that we get it right.

I love themes so...I think I will sum my thoughts up in quotes:

Feed your faith
and your doubts will starve to death...
-Author unknown

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
Truth and courage aren't always comfortable,
but they are NEVER weakness.
-Brene' Brown