Cater to Yourself: Self-Care
We encounter stress on the daily. We stress over school, family, relationships, finances, and more. If you're like me, you automatically shut down under stress. When I am completely overwhelmed and stressed out, I find myself back in my room in my bed with snacks scrolling through my social media feed for the 1000th time avoiding everything and anything. Is that productive? Not at all. Over the years, I've found better, healthier ways of dealing with my stress even though I still find myself shutting down sometimes. It's a journey to self-care and self-love, but one thing I've learned is that you waste so much time and energy being stressed. Life is too short for all of that. I'm going to share some of the tips and advice I've been given about self-care: Use Positive Self-Talk : When you are stressed, you automatically start to talk down to yourself, and you blame yourself for what is happening. When your state of mind is low like that, you don't want t