How do you practice self-care?

Fatigue is a difficult concept to explain to those who have never experienced it. For me it means that no matter how much I have slept I will feel very tired a short time later.

Last night I slept at least 9hrs, that’s a lot more than I usually get. I woke up feeling refreshed about 90 minutes ago. And about 10 minutes ago I started to feel extremely tired again.

I have places to be today so I can’t just go for a nap. But starting to do something will probably wake me up again, hopefully.

So while I can’t get some more sleep right now, I can not feel bad about the fact I would like to.

Sometimes it is easy to fall into the trap of what I wish my body was capable of. Today I’m going to do the best I can at accepting my own capabilities and recognise I am not to blame for any limitations.

I know this may not seem like a lot but for me it is a big deal. I’m quite good at faking being okay with my disability. Those that (think they) know me, are often surprised to learn that I don’t accept things as well as they think I do.

Being okay is not as easy as we make it look sometimes is it?

And later on, I will definitely be taking a good nap I promise.

I hope you do whatever you do to practice your own self-care today.