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Don't Wait Until You Have To Put Your Mask On - Fill Your Tank Every Day

By the time my butt hit my office chair this morning… honestly… I was looking up for the oxygen mask to come falling from the ceiling.

It’s pretty common to use the phrase ‘put your own mask on first’ as a way of celebrating or promoting paying attention to your self-care. But think about it... ‘put your own mask on first’… is an emergency response strategy to a pending disaster.

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Perfectionism is No Match for Self-Compassion

From the outside I seemed to have it all dialed down, but inside my shoes, my socks were slipping off. For I am a (recovering) perfectionist.

My three year - ongoing practice of fostering self-compassion and ditching my perfectionist inner critic has paid off. I feel like the woman I'm aspiring to be.

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