Tag: self-kindness
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For most of my life, I was the good girl. Good for my parents, good for my partner, good at work — where “good” mostly meant assistant, secretary, the person quietly making sure everyone else’s day ran smoothly. I didn’t choose those roles so much as fall into the shape of them, over and over,…
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I don’t have children. I want to say that at the start, plainly, because it matters. I’m not writing this from the inside of parenthood. I haven’t been woken at 3am by a small person who needs something only I can give — or had to strip a bed and scrub projectile vomit off the…
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Asking for help is supposed to be the obvious part. And yet, for so many people, it’s the hardest. You’re more irritable than usual and you can’t quite explain why. Your body feels heavy in a way that sleep doesn’t shift. There’s a fuzziness in your head that makes simple decisions harder than they should…
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Rest sounds simple. Until you try it. If you’re here because you’ve tried to rest and found that you don’t actually know how — that stopping just makes you restless or guilty rather than calm — here’s the short version: that’s not a failure on your part. Rest is a skill, not an instinct, and…
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Some days just don’t go the way you planned. The coffee spills. The inbox fills faster than you can empty it. You forget what you meant to say, or say too much. The calm you promised yourself in the morning slips quietly out the back door before noon. It’s okay. Slow living isn’t a perfect…
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Some people think resilience looks like pushing through exhaustion. Like showing up no matter what, always striving, always doing. Falling down and bouncing straight back up — faster each time, stronger each time, never letting anyone see the effort it takes. But what if that version of resilience is part of the problem? What if…
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I doubt almost every post before I publish it. Am I good enough to be saying any of this? Who am I to write about boundaries, or burnout, or kindness, as though I’ve got it figured out? What will people think — too preachy, too soft, a bit of a know-it-all dressed up as gentle…