So many women feel guilty prioritising themselves.
If we unpack this, first, I think there’s a problem with the word ‘prioritising’. Straight up, it brings to mind to do lists, competing stuff that needs to get done, stuff like washing, remembering to pick up the birthday cake, booking appointments, that email to your kids’ teacher and the list goes on.
Self – care doesn’t belong in a list like this.
Nearly all of the women I’ve spoken to across the span of my life have felt some kind of insecurity about their body at some stage or other. Many of us still do. Even me, on the odd ocassion.
What I see is that a preoccupation with our appearance can mean we’re so busy worrying about how we look and whether people like us, or find us pretty that we’re actually not living IN the moment.
The perfectionism and insecurity that comes with these feelings to present perfectly are debilitating.
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