Re-Art Your Life
Basic self-care – the simple, the complex, the misunderstood, the necessary
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Aug
Aug
I finished the work on my art of the heart – the mandala and flowers tray, early in the afternoon.
I had several hours till my usual end of the working day in the late evening hours. And I had a next piece to work on.
When I realised that I simply can’t.
I was feeling so deeply exhausted that I could hardly stay upright and couldn’t even get to a good cry to release the tension. So, unlike in the past, I called it a day and went home instead.
A total of 12 hours in bed followed, with exceptional 8 hours of sleep, which found me waking up today unusually fresh, with a clear head, joyful, and more than ready to jump on my new day.
It made me realise that my love for my work still inspires me to push through with little sleep per night, and brings not my spirit but my body to exhaustion. Because I am able to go on sheer enthusiasm far beyond the resilience of the body, I tend to be oblivious of my basic self-care needs. Who needs sleep with another exciting art piece, or another amazing client waiting, anyway?
But that’s it.
You can’t neglect your core needs because sooner rather than later it backfires.
It’s hitting your resilience and energy level for exactly the things you love to do. Let alone for those that you must do whether you love them or not.
The topic of responding to the core physical needs of sleep, food, hydration and movement is so overused that the very mention of it causes irritation and brushing it off.
It takes the heavy reminder of hitting the physical bottom and think it’s the mental and emotional bottom that you reached. Only then you realise you actually need these simplest things.
One way is to set reminders on your phone – stand up, walk for 10 minutes, drink those damn 8 glasses of water, eat, for gods’ sake!
I have tried the reminders, too. Guess what? I neglected them, and when the pings of the phone irritated me, I just turned them off.
The other way is to have someone to not just remind you but help you prioritise yourself and your needs to such an extent that listening to your body in time becomes unquestionable, natural and automatic.
That’s one of the things I do for you through my Re-Art Your Life 3-month program.
Because no goals and dreams are achievable if you are falling asleep as you sit, and all there is in your head is not the vision of your dream but painful exhausted fog.
I don’t claim I’ll create a miracle for you, and you’ll turn into a perfect self-care machine. No.
But under my guidance – the external force that is sometimes the necessary surge of energy to pull you out of your self-neglect routine – you’ll rewire your brain to new paths. They will include a new understanding of self-love and make basic self-care a desired care for someone you love and cherish – YOU.
We’ll explore your personality, and in the safe space of working with me you will test and acknowledge those activities that work just for you.
Do you want us to find yours together? Let’s talk and work on it, and find out.
Book a free discovery call with me here.
P.S. In the photo it’s the now completed tray. It’s one of my largest and finest pieces of the kind, even if it’s me saying it 
If its energy speaks to you, here you can find more photos of it and claim it for yourself.
If its energy speaks to you, here you can find more photos of it and claim it for yourself.