The Power and Practice of Prioritizing Self-Care

Listen, it's that time of year where you are either basking in the beauty of being off and all that nothingness can bring with it. You are in your pajamas, you are in your onesie, you are in your bed watching Netflix, watching YouTube, on social media, reading a book, or it is the time of year where you feel like the train never stopped, the people never left, the cleaning of the kitchen never ceased, the meals never stopped needing to be cooked, and you are tapped out. Or you could be watching this video in March or July or September, because in every season of the year there comes the ebb and the flow of extraness. But even in the everyday when there is no special time, many of us feel the extraness. And what I wanted to talk to you a little bit about today is what it looks like to prioritize self-care, particularly when the seasons of life are more tense, more full, more fun, or, um, more stressful. How can you prioritize self-care? What is it? Why do we need it? What do you do about it? What's wrong with it? I wanted to walk you through that. It is important for you to prioritize, uh, time for yourself in, in healthy ways, particularly when there's extra chaos, extra anxiety, extra stress. That can look like so many different things for so many different people. And self-care honestly has been defined by different people in different seasons to mean different things. So I want to start out with, let's define it. So that way, when I'm talking to you about self-care today, we are on the same page about what I mean when I say self-care. Now, don't get me wrong, y'all. I believe, I might have just had one today. I believe in a good massage. Do I consider self-care for me to be massaged? Sometimes, yes. But I'm not even talking about that necessarily. We think about self-care as getting our nails done, getting our hair done. Many of us think about self-care as going on a vacation or hanging out with friends. And none of those things are bad, but let's talk about where the word self-care started and what it could mean today and what I mean on this episode of the podcast right here. Back in the 1960s, the term self-care was actually used to define the care that was given to people who were suffering severely with a physical or mental ailment. And because so much of their personal energy went to just staying alive, self-care became, how can we serve and support? What does this person need to sustain their full life while they're dealing with the difficulty of a part of their life? It was used very narrowly to support a person that was experiencing a hardship, again, primarily physically, and it was started in the medical community. But over time, there have been different political and cultural movements that have adopted that terminology to mean different things. So when you have the civil rights movement and the, uh, women's equal rights movement, that term was then adopted because women said, listen, if you want me to bring home the bacon and fry up the eggs, uh, then I need to be able to recuperate from that because you also have me working and still doing laundry for these kids, and I cannot do all that. This is stressful. It's overwhelming. It's a, a great opportunity, but it's also invited a level of chaos. And self-care means somewhere in there I have to take care of me because with all the things that I'm now responsible for, there's no room for me just to be a person. You have the civil rights movement where minorities went to work in the workplace, where many times in the '60s, '70s, and even the '80s, and some would say ongoingly even today, that you've got overt in certain seasons or covert racism that meant I gotta go to work with people that don't look like me, but I gotta produce more to prove myself. But also, I'm, I'm dealing with an extra level of stress because of that, because I'm not just doing the work, I'm dealing with, uh, overt or covert racism. And so then you had minority groups say, we got to take care of ourselves. I mean, self-care is a whole thing. And the reality is we have individually, culturally, corporately different reasons why we will feel the additional strain and stress and pull of life. And self-care becomes the answer to that. I remember when my mother was sick and she was in the hospital, there was particularly, there were many of things like this. But one particular— a guy came and he sat in the hallway, and he went by quadrant and quadrant down the hallway where he could be heard by 4 to 6 rooms at a time. And he would sit there and play his guitar. And I remember pulling him to the side and asking him, like, you know, how did you even get into doing this? And why do you do this? And he said, I remember when my mother was sick in the hospital and someone was just in the hallway singing. He said, I can't sing, but I can play the guitar, and it was good for her soul. So while she was taking care of her body, somebody else was feeding her soul. It's important that your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual well-being be fed, especially in the seasons where there are stronger pulls. And self-care in various seasons of your life may look like different things, but what it all adds up to is reconnection and rejuvenation of the core of you. It is arresting from the things that are pulling from you to invest time and energy in the things that fill you. Now, this is not just for the sake though of you being your best you. Well, I believe in you being your best you. Self-care is also about you having a cup that overflows. There are places and spaces and situations where you've got to show up as your best self, and people can't get the origin of the work that you put into the world. They need to get the overflow. I was thinking about this because I watched somebody on social media say it, and, um, it resonated with me that in Psalm 23 and verse 5, you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil, my cup runs over. We spend so much time trying to let people, circumstances, jobs, our family benefit from what's coming out of our cup. So we run around pouring things over everybody, but that's not the picture here. The person in Psalm 23 is being anointed. They are first receiving, and the overflow is what is getting to everyone else. The cup is overflowing because the person is first receiving, and then everything around them is getting doused with the overflow of the oil that's been poured on them. So self-care is less about getting your nails done— while there's nothing wrong with that— and getting your hair done— while there's nothing wrong with that— and going on a vacation— while there's nothing wrong with that. It is more about how do you reconnect to be in a position of receiving so that you can then have overflow in your life. You have to receive first in order for your cup to overflow. So how do you know when you're in need of self-care? Many of us, um, We identify that the need because we feel stressful. We feel stress, we feel anxiety. But you know, some of that stress, if I could just say this and make some of y'all mad, it's designed to make you stronger. Like the gym also produces stress, right? Your muscles grow because you go and lift weights or you run faster or you walk on an incline. There is a part of living life where stress is good for your development. And sometimes developmentally, because we don't like stress, we want to run away from it, and we do things that we call self-care when in reality this was an opportunity to grow. So you got to pay attention to that, be led by the Holy Spirit in that, get wise counsel in that. But I do want to say that often the indicator for self-care is because the way you are reacting to your circumstance, what is coming out of you when you were— when you are squeezed, doesn't have oil on it. There's no oil. You are tired, you're burnt out, you are frustrated, you're exhausted. Who you really are, uh, how you really want to treat people, how you want to show up— that's not what's arriving on the scene. And that's probably because you don't have any oil. Self-care is a way for you to put yourself in a position of receiving so that the oil can overflow. It is important, even as a woman of faith, that you are committed to self-care. And I realize that self-care can get a bad rap when self-care looks like spending money on things we don't have, spending our time on things we shouldn't be spending our time on, and engaging and indulging in a way that actually has nothing to do with putting some oil on it. It has to do with us being distracted, with us, um, prioritizing our enjoyment to our detriment. It looks like us, um, exiting out, uh, of our everyday life and escaping. It's a mode of escape. I don't want to deal with y'all, so I'm going to leave the house and go do me. And while there's nothing wrong with enjoyment, if it's not putting you in a position of receiving and being filled, then that may not actually be self-care at all. In fact, if your bank account is less full than it should be because you went and had a girls weekend talking about self-care, an empty bank account isn't self-care at all. So let's talk about what this looks like and why it's important, especially to a woman who loves God. When you understand that being in the position of receiving is about you honoring God and what he wants to do in your life, that God wants to pour out on you. Whenever God got ready to do something big with someone, there was this commissioning era, right? And so we can look at the life of David as an example. He was anointed with oil when he was assigned the job of being a king, before he ever actually had to go and do the thing. God said, let me, let me let you know that I know who you are and what you need, and that everything that comes after this is out of overflow. You honor God when you put yourself in a position of receiving. You honor God when you are able to love others but the oil that flows to you can't flow through you if it's dried up at the source. It is good for you to be able to serve God more fully because you are operating from a full place. And that, of course, does not mean that you don't do hard things. It doesn't mean that, that you don't serve in difficult places and spaces. It doesn't mean that you don't— you're not sick and tired of being sick and tired. But it does mean that when you are connected with the God who made you to function in the purpose for which he has assigned you, that you have this river of life that flows up and bubbles up underneath. There's a scripture about that. It comes from the inside. It's like a spring that wells up in your soul. John 10:10 says, "I've come that they may have life abundantly." Doesn't that sound like a well that's springing up? That's what it's supposed to be. Your decision to prioritize self-care is your decision to participate with whatever God wants to do and whatever position he wants you to be in to receive the oil. Your cup should overflow. So self-care is about putting yourself in the right position to receive so that, yes, you can deal with stress, yes, you can catch your breath, yes, you can reconnect with you, yes, you can be better for everybody else. So let's talk about self-care as receiving and resting to receive and reconnecting with your assignment. Hey there, happy holidays! I hope you're enjoying all the festivities and enjoying the break. But listen, the holidays mean that The beginning of the year is coming and coming soon. And I want to invite you to join me for my annual beginning of the year address, okay? Where I talk in a way that's going to encourage you, set a fire underneath you, and get you going, launched into the new year. That is going to happen January 2nd. It's going to be a Thursday at 7:00 PM. It's my annual evening Coffee with Chrystal. It's free, but you do have to register. All you have to do is go to chrystalevanshurst.com/events. Now listen, there will also be some fun and some foolery mixed in because if there's no fun and foolery, what are we doing? I hope you join me to kick off 2025. I can't wait to encourage you, to make you laugh, and also to help you launch a year that will help you to make your mark. Join me January 2nd. I'll see you there. There are 3 areas of rest that I want to talk to you about today, and I want to give you some specific examples. None of these are going to surprise you. We hear about self-care all the time, but my hope is that you were reminded to check in with you and your yourself and I in all these different areas. Physical— you got to take care of you. And we are told over and over again and shown over and over again, even in God's word, and we hear from our doctors, and we read in the magazines, and we see on social media that we gotta sleep. We literally have to rest. You have to lie down. Again, no new news. Psalm 23 tells us that you lie down in green pastures. And sometimes, in order for us to rest, unfortunately God has to make us, or allow the circumstances of our lives to give us no option other than to lie down. And we don't like it sometimes, but resting is a mandate. Rest is actually worship. It's a part of you saying, I have a limit, my body has a limit, I can only function at my ideal level when I am functioning within my limits. And God, everything that I can't do in these 24 hours, or do the— during these healthy waking hours, you're going to have to take care of it. I lay it down because because I'm a limited being. Sleep. Exercise is a form of self-care because we are all about our temples. We have this body, it's a house that's designed to carry us from point A to point B. And if our bodies aren't well, uh, then we are not well able to do whatever he's designed us to do. How many of us have seen people that still have life inside their mind and in their heart, and their desire is pumping but their body won't let And I know that there are some things that happen to us we can't control, but many of the things we can control, we don't actively take ownership of it. And I'm not saying go to the gym and be a gym rat, because I know it's about to be the beginning of the year. And I know all y'all about to try to start your whole situation on January 1st or January 2nd, because you got to eat on January 1st because it's still a holiday. But the point is, I know that the gym race is about to continue. You know, we're about, even in the inner circle, about to start our fat demon situation again with our 90-day as we start off the new year. It's about that time. But the reality is it's not just about being a size whatever, 6, 8, 10, 12, body fat below 25, 20%. It's not about that. It is about engaging with regular activity that simply keeps you moving. If we could just bring it down a little bit. I went one time to a doctor. I was having some issues with my foot some years ago and my calf muscle was really tight. And he said, "Do you stretch?" And I was like, "No." He said, "Do you walk?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Do you run?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Do you lift weights?" I said, "Yes." said, do you ever do any other classes? I was like, spin. He said, why don't you stretch? I was like, I hate stretching. It's like the thing you gotta do before you got to do an activity. It just seems like it has no benefit. He said, but if you lose your range of motion to spin or to Zumba or to lift the weight or to have a stride when you run or to walk heel-toe when you go out for an evening stroll, then you don't have anything to work with, right? And where do you think your range of motion comes from? I said, okay, stretching. He was like, yeah, stretching. So there are certain basic things. Just get up in the morning and put your hands on the wall and step back to make sure that all of the muscles from your glutes to the tendon that meets your ankle, that they're stretched out. Take a minute and bend at the waist and circle around. My grandfather, I grew up listening to him making noises in the bathroom because he would get up every morning and do his calisthenics. And he lived well into his 90s. Healthy, able to move. How many of us are prioritizing losing weight, but we're not just prioritizing movement, stretching, using our body in ways that simply keep it functional? And maybe if more of us would— and I'm talking to myself because listen, give me a race, give me a finish line, give me a medal, you know, give me a hot chocolate after the hot chocolate run, give me a reward. But what if the reward is just being able to use your body? And what if the basics, like just going out for an evening stroll, because you can always do that, just taking 5, 10 minutes when you get out of the bed to stretch, because you can always do that. What if just doing the basics is the way you prioritize self-care? Eating well, it goes without saying. And I don't mean, again, eating, lose weight. I'm trying to take us, take me away from making everything that we do that's good for us about reaching a goal? What if it's just about being? Let me pause here for just a second and talk about something that we do with our physical bodies, because we need a goal, we need a reward, right? We want self-care to be vacation, okay? And there's nothing wrong with a vacation, but if you've ever taken a vacation— like, I've taken vacations— you tired when you get on vacation because of what you had to do to get there, and you're tired when you get off the vacation because you were trying to max out the vacation, and now you're tired. When you got to go back to work. Vacationing is an amazing thing to be able to do, but what you want to do is invite— backwards engineer the things about the separation of you from your regular life to your vacation life that can make your everyday life a vacation. Eating well— yes, lose the weight, be healthy, all of that. But when you reach your goal, what are you going to do to eat What if eating well is not about the goal? What if the big things that we're doing in our lives are not about the goal? They're not about the big bomb. They're not about the major. What if it's minoring in the little things every day that keep us there? That, yeah, you drink your water, but yes, as a matter of healthy being, you make sure that you're eating a raw salad, you know, 3 to 5 times a week, just because you should, not because you have a goal. Eating well means a mindset to eat for fuel and not for pleasure. Because listen, fries are pleasure, okay? Dark chocolate with the best almonds, Marcona to be specific, are pleasure, okay? Let's talk specifically about the right brewed sweet tea. It's pleasurable. But what if that's not what your body needs? And what if self-care is about caring for the self that has to care for you if you want to make it to the ripe old age, God willing? 80, 90, or 100 years old. It's not about reaching the finish line. It is about inviting these things into your everyday physical. Let's talk about your soul. And in soul, I'm going to put mental and emotional. I'm going to put in there the things that make you feel held. Let me give you an example. Um, recently, um, I was talking to my daughter about how she swaddles her children. Now, you know, I just put my children down and was like, go to sleep. You know, I would come back in, pat them on the back, love them a little bit, and then leave. I'd put on the music. I might come in and I might rock them a little bit, but then I'd put them back down. I didn't swaddle nobody, you know, I didn't rock them for 3 hours. I just was the parent that my children understood it was bedtime. But she does this thing called swaddling. And one of the reasons why is because a newborn baby will startle themselves awake. They will jolt and they'll wake themselves up. And keeping them kind of contained is one of the philosophies that she's, she's had for making sure that her children get a good night's sleep. Now, you may have opinions about that. All I know is the kids do stay asleep because they feel held. Think about a newborn baby who just wants to be with his mother. They have a father, but they don't want their father. They want their mother. They're used to their mother's heartbeat. If the mother is nursing, they're used to the warm milk. They're used to gazing in her eyes. It's comforting. Think about what you want when you're in a season of pain or struggle and you have people in your life who love you. They come over to visit with you. If they put their hand on your forearm, if they give you a hug and just hold you and let you cry, or sit with you and let you get it out, you feel held. The beauty of soul rest is that you get to give that to yourself. Self-care in the area of soul is what makes you feel held. That you belong, that you're still, that you're kept, that you're loved, that you are contained, that you are in the right place. Now, that can look like a lot of different things. When I ask myself what makes me feel held, it's a good book with a fuzzy robe with great fuzzy socks on. That's good for my soul. Another thing that makes me feel held is when I'm in my kitchen doing dishes and there's worship music playing and there's a candle burning, or my diffuser is going with whatever the scents are for that day. I feel held. What I— what's What's also good for me is being with a good friend, and I'm good for my good friends to put my feet under their thighs or under their buttocks, and they hate it when I wiggle my toes, but I feel connected. These are things that are good for my soul. I feel like I belong. I feel like I'm in the right spot. For many of you, you are artists, and it makes you feel held, contained, nurtured, filled up to get your coloring book or your best colored pen, pencils, and go to work on that adult coloring book. Or you draw, or you write. Uh, It has to do with you being in an environment that's good for your soul. I feel held when I'm sitting on a beach watching the waves come in. I feel held when I watch a sunrise or a sunset. I feel contained and that I am being filled when my soul is connecting with the things that make me feel like I'm good. And it's not passive. This is not sitting in the bed on social media. This is engaging with you and what your soul needs so that your mind is calmed down, so that your soul, your emotions are refilled. Sometimes it means therapy. Sometimes it means a conversation with your mom and them or your friends. It is what gives you a feeling of, I gotcha, I'm catching you. And the beauty of this is, is you don't need a vacation to do it either. You can read a good book before you go to bed every night. You can put on your screen, which I often do— there's some YouTube channels that I watch that give me the best scenery ever. When I can't travel, it's still in my mind's eye because I can see it on the screen. It soothes me still, even though I don't go. It is going for a drive with the windows down on a beautiful day. And while I may not be living on a beach, I may not have the money to get to a beach, I can feel like I'm outside in an environment when the weather's good. I get the same feeling when I get my fireplace going and I'm sitting there listening to the crack, crack and watching the flames circle up. What makes you feel like I am where I'm supposed to be? My mind gets a chance to be cleared out. My soul gets a chance to rest and be held. It's the sights, it's the smells, it's the sounds, it's the connection, it's communication. It is what your hands get to do. It's what you get to ingest into your mind. It is, I am here and I'm not flailing, fixing everything for everyone else, trying to figure out how I'm, how I'm gonna meet this deadline. I am still, I am contained, I am here. And whatever brings you back to I'm just here, it's good for your soul. Spiritual, uh, self-care. You cannot be okay in your life, girl, and for the few guys who watch, my friend, if your spirit isn't good, if the God who created you, you are not connected to, you're not gonna be good. You're not going to be cared for if you are not communicating with the one who loves you down to the core. How do you communicate? You pray. Um, that's you talking and you listening. Uh, you learn, you read. The Bible is God's love letter to you. Um, you seek God's presence. Sometimes that is the spiritual discipline of fasting, or a spiritual discipline of journaling, or It's a spiritual discipline of silence. This is what Sabbath is all about. Give God one day. And sometimes on that day, you invite the physical rest in and the physical self-care, and you invite the, the soul care and the mental break from work, and you shut off the devices and you emotionally let it go, or you connect with people you love. It is about God saying, listen, I'm going to give you a gift. If you actually read my word and hear me tell you keep a Sabbath, and if you actually understand that you should pray without ceasing, I'm actually going to make this easy for you and tell telling you, give me a day, give me time where you can hear my voice, study my word, because I've got things I want to tell you. And your spirit will be filled, refueled. It will regain power because the Holy Spirit in you is power, but he's not active if you're not paying attention to that part of you. You know, I, I literally and, and just put— we'll make sure we put this in the show notes— there's a, a new YouVersion plan that I have on the YouVersion app, the Bible app. It's called The Magnificent Grace of God. That's mine. But y'all know there's a million plans on YouVersion. Read through the Bible in a year, read through it in 90 days, what's his plan for your life, how do you pray, you know, the Book of John, the Book of— I mean, you name it. You have no excuse because even if you don't have a physical Bible, you have your phone with you all the God is with you all the time. The Holy Spirit's with you all the time. So you have no reason why at any time, in any place, you can't say, 10 minutes before I got a clock in at work, I'm just going to take a few minutes and bring in self-care to my day. That's what I was talking about earlier when I talked about vacation. Get— take your vacations, take your vacations, but also bring your vacations into your everyday. Into your everyday. When my kids were little and I would hide from them in the bathroom, um, because I would hide from them in the bathroom, I brought my vacations to the bathroom, y'all. The magazines that I didn't have time to read, I would lock the kids out, their fingers would be underneath, and I would just sit there. Even if I didn't need to sit there, I would sit there and read one article. Just one article. One article. Jesus, help me. Um, because I was bringing bringing my vacation into my everyday. Um, my children were small. I got the double stroller, I strapped the third one on my body, and it was only a short walk because it was a lot, but I went outside. I went for a drive. I would strap the kids in and I would drive clear an hour out of town to go to a flea market to buy them some corn dogs and some sweet tea so I could spend 30 minutes looking at some things. And then I'd get back in the car, put on my music or listen to a podcast and have have some time for me because they were watching their video or they were asleep on the way back. You build vacation in to your everyday. What are the things that you love to do when you separate yourself from your real life? And then ask yourself how you can bring those things into your everyday in increments, physically, soulfully, and spiritually. And many of these are combo practices. You can pray while you walk. You can, you can sit in silence when you lie down at the end of the day. You don't have to fall in the bed and go to sleep. Go to bed early enough where you just lay there for a second and see what happens when your mind has a chance to rest. You are going to lunch with a friend, get a salad. You're eating healthy while you're having connection and community. They can go together. But here's the key thing: usually self-care always requires you to slow down. I don't do this well. By definition, I think fast, I talk fast, I move fast. Everything about me is fast. So when the Lord says slow down, oh my gosh, it feels like my life is moving at the speed of molasses. It's uncomfortable for me. Can I tell you that a baby who's swaddled may not feel comfortable, but they're cared for? What if the thing that will give you the nurture that you need requires something of you that's not comfortable? What if it's not comfortable to plug your phone across the room or to keep it outside in the living room? What if it's not comfortable to, uh, to be by yourself? What if it's not comfortable to try new food that you don't like? What if it's not comfortable to walk because really you just want to burn calories, but then you need the music, which means you're not in silence? What if it's not comfortable to walk slowly in silence? What if being uncomfortable is what brings you care? So how do you make it happen? One, you got to think about your hands, your heart, and your head. Your hands, what you do, what you do every day. The things that are important are on your schedule. Sometimes you have to schedule in the modes of self-care. Your heart, sometimes you sense it. Your heart is telling you, I'm stressed, I'm, I'm anxious, there's too much pressure on me. Your body, your heart is telling you, girl, lay it down. And your head, you just know. You about to go into this meeting with your family, you're about to have this holiday or this celebration experience, it's that time of year when reviews are coming around, and your head is telling you, I already know what's about to happen, so get ready, get ready, get ready. You plan it, your hands. You sense it and give yourself grace, your heart. And you think it in your head. And you operate aware. But you have to, with those 3 S's, make it happen. When you become aware, you make it happen. This is a continual practice. Self-care is not a weekend thing. It's not a vacation thing. It's an ongoing Even when you feel like you can't afford it, there's always room to do something that gives you breathing room and put you in a position of receiving, because you can receive. If you can't afford to get your nails done, listen, those press-ons I hear are doing a mighty fine job. And if you can't afford those, then soak your fingers in the sink and push your cuticles back and just rub your fingers. Like, that's still saying, I thank God for my hands. That I have. And until the day I can go get my nails done, I'm still taking care of me. Dumb it down, simplify, save your funds, honor your body. 1 Corinthians 3:16 says, do you not know that you're, you're God's temple? God's Spirit dwells in you. Physical self-care is biblical self-care of resting and, and taking the time. Jesus exemplified this in Luke 5:16. He would withdraw to desolate places to pray. In Mark 6:31, he said to his friends, 'Come away to this desolate place and just rest a while.' And it says right after that, 'Because many were coming and going and they had no time to eat.' Does that sound familiar? I'm not convicted. Are you convicted? Self-care is good stewardship. Matthew 11 says, 'Come to me, all of you who are heavy and, and, and laden down and you're weary, because I will give you rest.' Self-care is good stewardship because he's inviting you to take care of what he's given you. And self-care is your cooperation to say, I receive your anointing so that everything in my life can have overflow. Rest, self-care, reconnecting, and receiving— it's an act of worship. Not just so you can have your hair did, and ain't nothing wrong with getting your hair did, but so that you are full to overflowing, so that you can be about the Father's business, and so that as you do that people are blessed and that they receive some of the overflow that you have? Do you know when you don't take care of you, you have nothing to give? And the purpose of you being in this life is to be a conduit of what God has given you to give to others in your circles of influence. So as we sit in this season, um, at the time of this recording, it's the end of 2024, we're rolling into 2025, whenever you watch this, assess your situation. Do you need to care for yourself? And if so, how can you do that in simple ways, small ways, basic ways, mundane ways, as an act of worship, so that you are in a position of receiving, so that your cup can overflow? If, if you can think of, even just for this next week, 2 or 3 things that are basic quick, easy, low-hanging fruit that will enable you to sit and receive. Do it. Start practicing it, all in one day like a full-blown Sabbath, or weaving Sabbath like a vacation in and out of your life. It's going to look different for everybody, but I would love for you to tell me what it looks like for you. So after watching this, go ahead— first, make sure you like and subscribe with all what kids say. But I want you to share in the comments, what does self-care in this season look like for you? How can you weave it in? For me, y'all, I stayed in my pajamas all day yesterday. It was glorious. And I was so filled to the brim when I got up this morning, enough to overflow this content to you. So hope you enjoyed it. And, uh, Um, I'm looking forward to continuing to share with you and encourage you in the new year. All right, self-care it is. Go do it. God bless. See you next time.