Whilst kindness to others is something most people keep at the forefront of their mind, practicing self-kindness can be too easy to forget. I am often guilty of beating myself up about things or demanding things which I would never be as hard to someone else about.
Self-care is to remember that your best is good enough
This is my first weekly self-care reflection, after deciding to move from daily to weekly posts. It is not the best of starts because it’s late! In the spirit of self-care and self-kindness, I am just going to forgive myself. I genuinely am doing the best I can at the moment and my best is good enough. I am enough.
Stop beating yourself up and start practicng self-kindness
My thyroid is kicking my butt at the moment. My goodness, how this tiny gland can have such enormous power over the body is incredible.
Anyone who as an underactive thyroid will know that it causes fatigue like nothing you have ever experienced. This tiredness isn’t the sort of tiredness that you can push through where once you get going yo start to feel better. This tiredness is utter exhaustion which turns your bones into solid lead. Dragging your limbs around, even a short distance from the lounge to the bathroom, leaves you gasping for air.
Because of this exhaustion, I have had to cross out a lot of my to-do list and do the things which are of the highest priority. However, I’m finding this to be incredibly frustrating. There is so much I want to be doing right now. I have writing ideas to finalize, pitches to submit, but I can barely keep my eyes open, let alone write anything of any sense.
Self-care this week has been about telling myself that I can only do my best and my best is good enough. I’m also reminding myself that I always attempt to do my best these days. Before I started my recovery from addiction, I rarely attempted to do my best; I gave up even trying. Now, I am excelling, every day, just by showing up to life.
This blog is day 135-137 of the #365daysofselfcare challenge