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As a Type-A Mom Trying to ‘Have It All,’ I Suffered a Breakdown. These 5 Tips Helped Me Regain Control and Prioritize Self-Care on a Daily Basis.

By Jessica Milicevic — 2021

Self-care in its most basic form are things you do to take care of yourself. As working moms, we’ve become conditioned to do everything for others, so the idea that we should do something for ourselves can seem entirely selfish and foreign.

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Self-Care for Grief: 100 Practices for Healing During Times of Loss

When faced with loss or trauma, the grief can oftentimes feel overwhelming. It can feel difficult, if not impossible, to focus your attention elsewhere. And yet, during hard times is the perfect time to look inwards for support and practice self-care.

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Nneka M. Okona
2025
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Notes to Self: A Journal for Self-Care

Self-care has become a buzzword--and a necessary part of life in our stressful and uncertain times. As this creative, insightful journal demonstrates on every page, self-care is whatever you want it to be. Taking a walk in nature. Meeting a friend for tea.

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Lisa Currie
2019
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Ah, wonderful sleep. I love to sleep. It’s one of the things I’m really good at.

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Kate Johnson
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The overuse of prescription drugs provides a vacation from personal responsibility.

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Bruce Lipton
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

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Harriet Lerner
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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Harriet Lerner
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Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch—there’s not a chance.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

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C. S. Lewis
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

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C. S. Lewis
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Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society

The Rhythm of Compassion addresses one of the central spiritual questions of our time: Can we heal ourselves and society simultaneously? The core premise of this book is that the health of the human psyche and the health of the world are inextricably related, and we cannot truly heal one without...

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Gail Straub
2001
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