Good, Better, Best Days: My Self-Care Realization #selfcare #adhd #neurodivergent #mentalhealth

For me, one of the biggest realizations— that's the word I was looking for— with self-care was that I had good, better, best days. On a good day, I only stand under the water. No soap, no nothing. I stand under the water. That's it. Yes, that may be gross, but it's like my brain needs to get that message that I'm starting my day. And with having— since having short hair especially, my hair will stand on end in the morning. I have to get it wet. There is no— there— I have tried everything. I have tried everything. Nothing will make it lay down flat once it's standing on it. That's all there is to it.

Funny, you know, I used to have a pixie haircut and I loved it, but when you have short hair, you have to fix it every single day because it stands on end and it does like crazy things. And so that was one of the reasons, like that, and you have to get it cut all the time to keep it in shape. So that was one of the reasons I let my hair grow to like a shoulder-length bob. And prior to all of that, I had super, super long hair.