Self-Care

By Trina Stanford “At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” Lao Tzu Self-awareness is defined as the mindful consciousness of your strengths, weaknesses, actions and presence. It also requires having clear insight of your emotional and psychological states. Self-awareness is important…

By Trina Stanford “Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.” Simon Sinek Many of us think that we are effective listeners and therefore don’t need to enhance and improve our listening skills. Unfortunately, very few of us are truly effective…

By Trina Stanford In our prior issues, we discussed understanding self-care, identified myths surrounding the topic, and ways we recognize when self-care is needed. In this piece, we will do a deeper dive into focusing on the five essential self-care principles. Practicing self-care principles that focuses on your physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual health…

By Trina Stanford In our prior issue, we discussed self-care and identified myths surrounding the topic. In this piece, we will delve deeper into self-care and focus on practices that will help you to implement a self-care system so it becomes part of your regular habits.  Let’s start by focusing on ways you can recognize…

By Trina Stanford, MA Self-Care is any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual health. When we believe we are too busy for self-care, we are sacrificing critical factors that contribute to our ability to perform at our peak. Contrary to perception, self-care is…