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May 16, 2023Liked by Classically Abby

I love this! My husband and I just talked today about how important it is to me to keep the house tidy and picked up. I was sick last week, so we ended up ordering food 4 out of 7 nights, and had a friend's birthday dinner on Sunday. I felt so disgusting after that week of eating out and not being able to take care of the house. Today I spent 2 hours picking up the clutter that had amassed as we went through last week on survival mode, and I washed all of the dishes that hadn't gotten done. I felt SO MUCH BETTER afterwards that I even baked a lemon tart, just because I had a clean kitchen and I wanted to!

"Self care" has such a weird connotation to it, as you said, because even though people use it "positively," they also use it reactively. Self care should be, as you said, about making sure that you don't get to the point of needing a big escape.

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Mary here! I find watering my plants and checking up on them is a great way to self care. My home office has three plants -- it's fairly easy now at a gardening store or grocery store to find ones that need low light and are relatively difficult to kill. (If you need plant help, reply to this and I'll help!) Trick: If you prefer the idea of plants but not the reality, the website "Nearly Natural" has great faux plants. They purposefully design them with irregularities and tiny "flaws" so they look like real ones. I have those on my porch as I want them there in winter, and no one has ever guessed they are faux! It actually works the same on your brain to see the green in the "plant."

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