Practicing Self-Nourishment

Self-care – self nourishment?

How are we fitting in time for ourselves, the common saying “self-care”, but what is self-care? How are you defining what that is? How are you maintaining that care to yourself? My head spins with questions, as I too fall into the self-care need. But what I am wondering is, why aren’t we pushing self-nourishment?? Self-care is often more than the face mask, facial and massage, is it the self-treatment we need to feel warm inside? Because I can’t help but wonder, are those self-cares lasting long enough to “care” for us?

I know, it sounds like gibberish right now, but I found myself wondering this last week as I took off for my 36 hour soul mission. What sparked that trip was my husband was leaving for his week-long hunting trip. Here we just moved to a new state, a new town where I know- NO ONE. I had a moment of sincere frustration at him for “leaving me here” to fend for myself. Then, something spoke to me and pushed me entirely out of my comfort zone. The stereotype of women who are left behind as their men go hunting, “the hunting widow”. This term literally makes me cringe, as most women I have come across during this time of year are fed up and annoyed, myself included ladies!! But why??? Why are we angry? (Don’t mind you I am not entirely fond of the sport however, let’s save that conversation for another day). I literally asked myself a weeks ago, why am I angry? I don’t need to be “left behind”, I also don’t need to be “sad” or feel widowed. I refuse to use that term, because I am not a hunters widow. I am a woman who has a adventurous soul that needs to run wild.

So, here as I try to sum this up. My thoughts are, I feel self-nourishment is so very important and it might change week by week. Last week, I needed to nourish myself by, choosing to let my wandering soul loose! And not being held back because I was alone! The result was life changing for me, to be brave enough to fight my fears of being alone, driving alone, staying in a hotel alone, hey- I even went wine tasting alone. And it turned out to be the most nourishing thing I have done in MONTHS!

How can you start to incorporate self-care/ self-nourishment so that it can be maintained and evolve to who you are being to yourself?

With love,

Amanda