The best mental health advice I’ve ever been given

"Treat yourself like someone you’re responsible for taking care of"

WOAH

This was EYE OPENING for me. Would I ever let someone I’m caring for go without food or water until 2pm? Would I advise my husband to go 2 days without breathing fresh air? There are so many basic things I tell my loved ones and clients to do every single day but I never thought about it for myself until recently.

There are so many basic things I deprive myself of to “get started on the work day” and to “fit in another 20 minutes of work”. Yet when I see my husband doing the same for himself I make a fuss and feed him, or make us go for a walk. Why is it when it comes to ourselves we put ourselves last?

I know that I could do better but hearing that statement, treat yourself like someone you’re responsible for taking care of, was really next level sobering for me. Whenever I find myself dehydrated or malnourished during the work day I say this and it makes me pause and take care of myself.

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