12 of the Easiest Self-Care Activities Ever

If you’re feeling like self-care is out of reach, take a look at these ideas before you give up

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As a single mom myself, there are two things I know to be true:

· We’re often so busy that self-care gets ignored

· It’s because we’re so busy and because we’re single parents that we need self-care so desperately

It can easily feel like a Catch-22. And it’s generally easier to ignore something that’s difficult than to try to find a solution — especially when that thing doesn’t seem like it’s all that important.

But self-care is important, especially for single parents. As the sole parent, responsible for not only ourselves but our kids, we have to make sure that our own needs are being met in order to be there for our kids. We have to be the ones to make ourselves a priority because we don’t have a partner who can insist we do it and take over the parenting for us so we can have a break.

I believe one of the biggest reasons single parents, and others, tend to ignore self-care is they have a serious misconception of what it should be. They see it as indulgence, doing things like bubble baths, massages, and other luxuries that we often don’t have time or money for. And even if they don’t…