Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Struggling with Self-Care: My Journey #selfcare #adhd #ndoutloud

21 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this personal vlog, the speaker shares how feeling overwhelmed and busy—especially after having children—leads to lapses in basic self‑care such as brushing teeth and showering. She describes the logistical challenge of coordinating shower schedules for the whole family, the shame she feels for neglecting her own hygiene, and hints that she has discovered a strategy that helped her regain consistency in self‑care.

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When I get overwhelmed or super busy, my self-care goes out the window. Like I forget to brush my teeth. I forget to take showers. Like I never was that person. I had like a nighttime routine. I took showers. I did the thing. Now I have kids in my house. So then there's more people on the shower schedule and yes, you have to have a shower schedule. So mine is the one that lacking. My husband, the kids, everyone takes theirs. Mine is the one that's lacking. And I couldn't figure out, like, there's a lot of shame around that. Like, I'm not showering? Like, what? So I figured out something that helped me.