Tag: Self-Care

Get ready to tame your to-do list!

By Kate Hesse

Do you feel overwhelmed by your to-do list?  Does it seem to only grow longer – not shorter?  Do you wake up in the morning feeling a sense of anxiety, dread, or resentment at everything on your list? First, I want to acknowledge how you’re feeling and let you know you’re not alone! There were…

Where you’re going wrong with your self-care routine

By Kate Hesse

Have you ever felt like self-care is overwhelming or just one more chore on your to-do list?  Does it feel like it isn’t “working” for you, or maybe you’re getting self-care wrong? I totally understand that feeling. It happens to me sometimes. And it’s a great reminder for me to check in on what I…

Is watching tv self-care?

By Kate Hesse

I’ve been thinking about tv a lot lately.   One of the 4C’s in Quieting Your Inner Critic is building a consistent, sufficient, and sustainable self-care & self-work routine.  When I talk about self-care, I always distinguish it from self-work and distraction. In a nutshell: Self-care is what nourishes and fills our reserves. Self-work is how…

Learning how to quiet your inner critic

By Kate Hesse

Over the last several months, I’ve been taking a hard look at what I offer, and making sure that I’m providing not only what’s most needed, but also what’s most resonant. And what keeps coming up over, and over, and over again, is the difficult relationship so many of us have with our inner critic.…