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6 Self-Care Things You Shouldn’t Do
Sometimes the best self-care is what you don’t do.
When we talk about self-care, we spend most of our time talking about what we should be doing. We talk about what we should be eating or drinking. We talk about how we should be making more time for ourselves, or seeing the doctor regularly, or pampering ourselves with bubble baths and truffles.
Sometimes, though, the most important self-care we can do actually comes from what we don’t do. Sometimes the best way to take care of ourselves, to love ourselves, and to make life both better and easier, is to avoid or stop doing certain things.
These are six of the things I think you shouldn’t do for some of the best self-care there is.
Don’t care what other people think
We can waste a lot of our lives worrying what other people think of our clothing, our body, our relationships, and every other aspect of our lives. But why do we do that? Does their opinion really matter that much to us? Does it change anything?
Stop caring what other people think of you and what you do. You’re not living your life for them. You’re living your life for you and that means your opinion is the only one that really counts. Do what you want to do, what makes you happy.
