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SAVVY SELF-CARE
best practices
Drink, Eat, Sleep: Mastering Essential—
and Sacred—Self-Care Practices
By Heath and Nicole Reed
Self-care is not being selfish; rather, self-care is being self-aware.
Have you noticed, though, that many of the fundamental cues our body
communicates are often ignored, discounted, pushed to the side, or
completely overridden? For some, giving or doing something good for
themselves may be entangled with feelings of selfishness, childishness, or
complete impracticality. What if, instead, self-care was a declaration of your
alignment and connection with yourself, nature, and all your relations?
We invite you to consider your self-care practice as an opportunity to listen and respond to
your body's messages. We encourage you to recognize how cravings, ideas, movements—and
even pain, tightness, and feeling stressed—are invitations to do something good for yourself.