How do you nurture yourself?

[Jesse]

I too have been doing a lot of thinking and work in this area the last couple of weeks.

I've realized that:

• I was never nurtured as a child, nor was I taught how to be self nurturing.
• In turn, I never allowed myself to be truly nurtured by anyone else
• I learned how to nurture others later in life, but never how to self nurture
• The whole self nurture thing bothered me at first, because I was taught that is selfish behavior.
• I am able to teach myself how to do this.

Some of the ways I self nurture now:

• I try to make sure that the things I need to have done are taken care of so that I do not have feelings of guilt .
• I am exercising more; bike riding and walking on the treadmill.
• I make sure to eat healthy, but do not forbid myself of things that I like that may not be so healthy; I just limit my intake of those.
• I do what I need to do to take care of myself emotionally; that sometimes means leaving toxic people behind and I am okay with that.
• I am working on going back to school, hopefully in January.
• I tell myself the truth and that means doing my own inventory.
• I allow myself to have a voice in things that are important to me.

Jesse