Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rhoda Shapiro, author of Fierce Woman.
We've all heard it many times: Self-care is absolutely essential.
As women, we're well aware of this fact. We put so much energy every day into jobs, tasks, responsibilities, and relationships; if we don't replenish and nurture ourselves in the process, we'll eventually get depleted.
Many of us put off self-care because there's simply no time for it. Others feel guilty about carving out the time to do something for ourselves.
Right now, I feel like our definition of self-care is quite limiting, which is actually keeping us from engaging in it at a deeper level.
When we think of self-care,