Self Care Secret Weapon
Dear Beautiful Mama who has lost her joy,
I see you. You are exhausted and overwhelmed but you keep playing the game of “We are great!” You assume I am not talking about you because your mess feels eons away from anything beautiful – but it’s you reading this right now that I am talking to. Yes, you. You need to take care of yourself.
Taking care of yourself isn’t selfish. It doesn’t mean you forgo all of the God-given responsibilities of feeding your brood or scrubbing toilets or all of the other mediocre moments required of you. But it does mean you add yourself to your list of priorities.
Let that soak in while I say it again: You add yourself to that never-ending to-do list as a priority.
If you know Jesus, but don’t believe you are worth taking care of, sister do I have news for you! You are a daughter of the living God. You are worth dying for. Shouldn’t a person like that, who rolls out of bed and does absolutely nothing yet still is of priceless value, take care of herself?
My self care secret weapon is simple. Add yourself to The List! You know the one you enjoy checking off all of those boxes from? The one that you aren’t likely to finish in this lifetime because you keep adding stuffs to it? The one on which you secretly write things you have already accomplished, in order to check them off (I do it too 😉 ). ADD yourself.
What things feed your spirit and make your soul feel alive? These activities fill your heart with gladness and make you pause to thank the Almighty for this life you don’t deserve. Write them down, and add them to The List.
Here are 20 things I do simply because they make my heart happy. They make me a better mama, and like the oxygen mask in an airplane that’s gone too high – they allow me to take care of those around me fully alive.
Self Care Secret Weapon List
- Drink hot herbal tea by myself
- Read the Bible and talk with God in the stillness of the morning
- Eat chocolate while hiding in the bathroom
- Get in the floor to play with my kids
- Do nothing but sit and watch my children play together
- Sing at the top of my lungs
- Dance like a crazy person until my kids (and husband) can’t help but join in
- Stop to smell the coffee before I inhale it all
- Color. With my kids, in an adult coloring book, or just doodle in a notebook.
- Learn Hebrew alongside my kiddoes
- Bask in the sunshine with my eyes closed
- Watch the same old movies my husband at home after we put the kids to bed
- Dream about a bucket-list of experiences to do with my kids before they are grown
- Cook anything from scratch without “punching a time clock”
- Painting my daughter’s fingernails
- Listening audiobooks (this is my favorite right now!) while folding laundry or doing dishes
- Chasing my kiddoes like a tickle monster when they least expect it (I am going to need an alternative to this for when they are older….maybe they will enjoy drinking coffee with me? 😉 )
- Stargazing in wonder as a family
- Exploring outside without a planned destination
- Reading thick chapter books
- Nerding out with my hubby (He enjoys physiology lectures, I enjoy finding flaws in clinical trials – total nerd stuff 😉 )
- Drinking copious amounts of coffee by sipping on it all day
- Eating nut butter out of the jar with a spoon (this is my all-time favorite healthy nut butter!)
- Having a popcorn movie night as a family
- Sitting still to watch the world go by (can be nature outside or the people in the Wallie World parking lot 😉 )
To sum it up, my self care secret weapon is to do things that feed my spirit. If my joy feel like it is waining, I start intentionally doing at least one thing off of my list every day.
Make your own self care secret weapon list to keep on hand for when you need your oxygen mask to drop so you can keep serving those around you.
What is your self care secret weapon? What things do you do that feed your spirit? <3
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