8 Steps to Emotional Self-Care

If you’re feeling anxious, scared, or otherwise off-balance, here are some emotional self-care things you can do.

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For most of us, life is looking very different right now than it did just a few weeks ago. We’re not able to go out to dinner and movies and other things we’ve always enjoyed. We’re cooking at home, working at home, or going to work each day knowing we might be exposing ourselves and our families to a virus that still has many unknowns.

This is creating a lot of stress, anxiety, fear and other uncomfortable feelings. If we don’t take care of ourselves, those feelings can become overwhelming.

I don’t think there’s ever been a time when emotional self-care has been more important. If you’ve never done it before, though, you might not know what to do. Here are eight easy ways to engage in emotional self-care right now.

Honor your feelings

This is perhaps the most important way you can engage in emotional self-care. Honor your feelings, whatever they are.

Too often, we try to ignore, shove aside, or change feelings that re unpleasant or that we simply don’t want to feel or deal with. This doesn’t do any good. It just makes the feeling more persistent, and it will come…