17 Women Share Their Version of Self-Care

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We’ve all been there, when life gets a little too stressful and you need to take a break. Classes are overwhelming, there’s too much reading to catch up on, you’ve spent most of your week outside of school at home studying or working, and it’s all catching up.

Before you have a mental breakdown and decide you want to shut out the world, you should probably take a moment to give yourself some time to relax and focus on self-care. When I was in the midst of a bad relationship, going to school, and working to pay tuition, I never gave myself time for self-care. This resulted in constant breakdowns and making myself physically sick, complete with constant headaches and throwing up all the time. My body was in stress and I hadn’t realized that I needed to take care of myself.

First off, I left that sh*tty relationship (that was probably the biggest step in self-care I’ve given myself) and then learned to take a step back and give myself at least an hour or so every week to focus on de-stressing. Don’t get me wrong, I still get pretty stressed out and life, in general, can get pretty overwhelming, but my version of self-care (binging Gilmore Girls and a bottle of wine) helps me chill out and decompress before going back to running the world.

These 17 women share their version of self-care:


1.

If I can, I’ll chill naked for a lil bit.

2.

I like to give myself a spa day- paint my nails, deep condition my hair, exfoliate, put on a face mask, moisturizer my feet. Light some candles.

3.

Sometimes, I recite the mantra, ” I am brilliant, beautiful, and bright .”

4.

My therapist shared with me this thing called the Self Care Wheel. If you look it up, it should be the first image that comes up. I’ve found that its been really helpful with figuring out what I could use given the day.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.