For the Magic Heart
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Why Confidence is Important
(and how not having it affects our lives)Confidence is feeling assured that you are capable of handling whatever comes your way. It is, essentially, faith in yourself. For some of us, it doesn’t come easily. Some people’s confidence issues began in childhood with overly strict parents or teachers.
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Hi friends, Laura here.
I thought maybe we'd try to do a monthly breakdown each month, so you know what's happening. Because honestly? Things are getting a little crazy around here, and I know it's super hard to keep track of. -
We’re still rollin’ with the self care train this week. We believe that your #1 priority should be YOU! Not in a selfish, narcissistic way. But in a way that leaves you healthy, refreshed, and excited to show up for this life. Other people will take as much as we let them. Therefore it’s up to us to look out for our own needs first. We went into detail about what exactly self care means and how to get started in our last blog post. That would be a good place to start if this is all new to you.
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“Take care of yourself!” Sounds simple enough, right? For many of us, self care is a complex and even difficult task. If you were raised to put others before yourself, or if you had a traumatic or abusive upbringing, self care - real self care - can feel completely foreign. It goes wayyyyy beyond the prescribed bubble bath and chocolate blogger recommendations that have been all too common in the last few years. So let’s talk about self care for real.
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We’ve been going on and on all month about how great journaling is. We really believe it from the bottom of our hearts. But trust us when we say, we were NOT sold on it originally. Journaling seemed like something for, you know, authors or people good with words.
There is this idea out there that journaling has to be beautiful, or profound, or polished. Believe me when I (loudly) say – NOPE! That is not the case at all. Life is messy. Our journals, if we’re doing it right, should reflect our lives.