The Perfectly Imperfect Project: Real Self-Care
The Perfectly Imperfect Project was schemed up by Mara Glatzel and Tamarisk Saunders-Davies to shed light on the topics of self-love and self-care by asking gorgeous and grounded women that we admire to share their expereinces.
The back story: several months ago Tamarisk got on her soapbox about some of the myths and misconceptions that surround self-care. The necessity for this blog hop is steeped in the knowledge that we need to, as a community, expand and elaborate on the current conversation about self-care.
Our hope is to thicken the narrative to include each of our personal stories of how we strive to care for our bodies and our spirits, as well as the importance of coming from a place of heady self-love when doing so.
The premise is this: self-care is everywhere these days, and yet, many people seem to experience so much difficulty in being able to truly tend to their bodies and spirits. We wanted to boil down and distill the integral aspects of self-care, and engage in a conversation about the ways that we take care of ourselves on a daily basis.
Our hope is to inspire you as you begin cultivating self-care rituals of your very own – rituals overflowing with support, flexibility, and self-trust. We hope that this series encourages you to begin working with yourself, instead of against yourself.
The questions
What does your self-care really look like?Â
On a daily basis – what is the big, small, good, bad, and in between of your self-care?
What is the philosophy behind how you care for yourself?
What are your self-care struggles?
What do you wish everyone on this planet understood about what it means to care for yourself gently and kindly?
The glittering line-up
Tamarisk Saunders-Davies :: Self-Care for the Broken Hearted
Michele Lisenbury Christensen :: Imperfect Self-Care
Kylie Bellard :: A Look Inside My Daily Self-Care
Danielle Dowling :: Real Self-Care
Christie Inge :: What My Self-Care REALLY Looks Like
Sas Petherick :: What George Costanza Teaches Us About Self-Care
Susannah Conway :: Self-Care in the Real World
Sarah Yost :: The Ten Commandments of Self-Love
Nona Jordan :: I Hate The Phrase Self-Care
Catherine Just :: Self-Care for This Mama, Entrepreneur, Artist, Wife
Catherine Caine :: A Relentlessly Pragmatic Approach to Self-Care
Anna Guest-Jelley :: What My Self-Care Practice Really Looks Like
Randi Buckley :: Perfectly Imperfect: My Take On Self-Care
Lisa Lister :: Real Self-Care: What’s Your Body’s Story?
Rachel MacDonald :: What Self-Care Means to Me
Tiffany Han :: Friday’s Confession: I Think Self-Care is BS
Margarita Tartakovsky :: A Peek Into My Real Self-Care Routine
Julie Parker :: My Perfectly Imperfect Self-Care
Rachel Cole :: Perfectly Imperfect Self-Care
Mara Glatzel :: Tales from the Groundskeeper: Real Self-Care
Gorgeous souls who’ve joined the conversation
Shakti Womyn :: Do I love me? What Self Love Means for Me in 2013
Our Little Balham Life :: Self-Care
Soraya Nulliah :: Self-Care + What it Means to Me
Kira Elliot :: Balance of Self-Care
Hunger for Happiness :: My Life Used to Suck. How I Changed That, And How You Can Too.
Get involved
We would love to hear from YOU – what does your self care look like? What are your struggles? What are your questions about self-care?
Send us an email or tweet us using the hashtag #realselfcare to join in on the conversation.
Get in touch with us
Tamarisk
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Mara
