Here’s what I learned from losing a child. Emotional health is a real thing. It is the foundation that holds up everything else. A wife and mother’s emotional health hold up the whole household. Without it, everything crumbles. I’m not a #selfcare Instagram-style person.
That type of self-care assumes that one’s family is a burden and getting away from them is self care. Self care is being honest with oneself about where you are and how you are doing. And allowing the time and the physical strength necessary to process things that happen, to deal
with grief, to slow down to process change, to recognize feelings of helplessness, or just not feeling like yourself. To give yourself the time you need too get to where you need to be, and not sacrifice the most essential things for proof or feeling of accomplishment.
Self care is about feeling entitled to good things that come your way, not beating yourself up over things that are nonsense, or even important things you worked through already.
Self-care is about self-awareness and recognizing the very real consequences of crumbling emotional health.
Caring for emotional well being comes out of the same bucket as everything else. It takes time, physical energy, etc. But it cannot be neglected.
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