The Tale of the Shaky Foundation

Okay, first of all: I'm sorry I've been so absent from my blog this year! Hopefully you know I haven't really abandoned you. I've just been hanging out on my mailing list and building my YouTube talk show Inside the Team with Jesse Favre. (We wrapped Episode 8 last Friday!)

Featuring Inside the Team guest Ke'Ira Lewis

I've also been bundled up, conserving energy when I can. After more than two years of feeling baseline crummy at best, I hit a breaking point at an out-of-town talk recently. Upon returning to the hotel room, I did my regular "higher self check-in." It's where I imagine I meet my higher self (she's hundreds of years old and lives in the woods in a tiny tin hut and makes the best tea... naturally). And the conversation went a little something like this: Regular Me: "So, I've been feeling really crummy for over two years now, but I still seem to be getting by for the most part. Just checking: is it that big of a deal?" Higher Self Me: [in an unprecedented turn of events] "It actually is." So, there I was, on the outside looking in, and I really cried for myself. And then I came home and ordered all the lab work I could. Over the last two weeks, I've been addressing some very low levels of totally correctable things, and it's hit me how important it is to focus on our baseline "okay-ness." Just because you can technically build a mansion doesn't mean you should put it on a shaky foundation. So, for anybody who needs to make that doctor's appointment, or get that extra hour of sleep, or take their supplements that are collecting dust on a shelf somewhere: DO IT. Don't overcomplicate self-care. Go back to the absolute basics:

• How is your energy?

• What hurts?

• What feels good?

• Do you need a nap?

• A snack?

  
  

If you were on the outside looking in, what would you do to protect and care for this imperfect, struggling, lovable human? And now, for a mini-pep talk from the ever-wise Inside the Team guest Jamal Stevenson:

Self care isn't selfish. So, to borrow a phrase from Nike... JUST DO IT.