Month: November 2018

Self-Care Isn’t Selfish

Published by Jennifer Gregson on November 9, 2018

I wasn’t going to write about self-care today, but I saw this ad that really kinda irked me. It’s for a random cookie company and the print ad is just a lovely white background and a picture of the cookie and the ad copy says: Ahhh, self-care! That’s it, nothing else. And tiny in the corner is the cookie company name and logo. I love that we as a society are talking about self-care and…

I Stopped Stopping and Started Again

Published by Jennifer Gregson on November 1, 2018

Why do we stop ourselves? Why do we stop doing the things that we know help us? Do we want to stay stuck? Or is that just me? See, I can write a bunch of things and blame everyone else, but the truth is – I stopped. I stopped doing my morning pages, stopped walking, stopped dancing, stopped singing, stopped getting my tarot cards out, stopped finding my joy. I stopped being happy. I let…