CONQUERING A ONCE-DIFFICULT ROUTINE

What are your daily habits?

I wake up around 4-5 am, take my early morning tablets, and write down the tasks for the day. Some days I journal around this time.

After a short nap, I prepare for my daily exercise, followed by rest and getting ready for work. Once I’m ready, I have breakfast and leave for the clinic.

At the clinic, my day includes routine patient checkups and treatments, as well as spending time on social media, revising short-term courses I’ve completed, networking, and applying for new jobs, among other tasks.

As the day ends, I leave around 7 pm and head home. Relaxing afterward ensures that I am recharged after a busy day at work.

Afterward, I have dinner and then engage in a reading session before bedtime. Thirty minutes before going to sleep, I do my skin and hair care routine. I typically sleep around 10-10:30 pm.

That’s my daily routine and habits.

SELF CARE and SELF LOVE

How do you practice self-care?

How would a person with low self esteem rise above the wounds that made her so? Well, I would be a walking example of that.

Today, healing has helped me in loving myself whole heartedly and caring for my body and mind equally on a regular basis. Self care involves everything you do to make your body feel genuinely loved and cared for, not  some instant dopamine rush or impulsive love.

I care for my body by taking care of its health problems, having a healthy lifestyle by exercising and having a balanced diet, taking care of skin and hair on a daily basis and acknowledging the imperfections I feel I have. Accepting your body as such without promoting either  toxic body positivity or fad diets. Being responsible for my actions and taking steps to correct those in case of mistakes is also a method of personal growth and self care.

To maintain my mental health, I journal regularly, try to exercise daily, and seek help if necessary. Avoiding toxic environments and setting boundaries with others, personally and professionally, is also a kind of self care that almost everyone struggles to achieve.

Cheers to the self love one can give to ourselves and thus can love others more truly.