Self-Care for Cynics

I started this blog on New Year's Day 2018 as a way to kick off my year of self-care. I think I was feeling wounded by some events of 2017 and needed to look inward and try to take better care of myself. I started this blog as a way to share my progress, but then as the John Lennon song says, "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." While I failed miserably at meditation, and quite clearly failed at updating this blog, my year of self-care evolved into something else. Let's just say the first half of 2018 was more or less uneventful. There were minor triumphs and disappointments, of course, but nothing to write home about, so to speak. Things didn't start truly picking up in my life until Spring 2018. A year that began with the promise of better self-care turned into a year of taking chances, which I think can be a form of self-care. Self-care doesn't have to just be taking aromatherapy baths and drinking tea - that stuff is e...