{"id":9,"date":"2023-01-06T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:33:54","slug":"self-care-is-the-best-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Self Care is the Best Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jennifer White<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a wife and mom, one can easily get caught up in <\/p>\n\n\n\n

work, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

parenting, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

cooking, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

cleaning <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and ALL of your day-to-day tasks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure much like it is in my home, as \u201cmom\u201d, everyone relies on YOU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust and believe me I love<\/strong> my family, but some days it can be overwhelming and exhausting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And on those days, the smallest thing(s) can have me yelling at everyone in the house! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know those moments\/days when everything is annoying and you just don\u2019t want to be bothered? It\u2019s in those very moments that I realize, yup I need time to myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self care for me is<\/strong> my time to decompress and give myself grace and prioritize just Jen<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So mamas, my first question is: Do you have a regularly scheduled self care day? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you answered, \u201cYes!\u201d, GO GIRLFRIEND, because you better! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However if you sadly said \u201cNo\u201d, no worries. Let\u2019s plan one right now! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. (Choose) Pull out your calendar and choose a date. It doesn\u2019t matter, seriously go pull out your calendar and look for the next available day and book it. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. (Plan) Plan time. It can be time by yourself or a date with your good good friends. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. (Share) Tell your spouse or partner and to hell with them kids! (lol) They ALL will be alright! <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. (Enjoy) Go enjoy a massage, a facial, brunch, or whatever YOU need. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    While writing this, I just saw a meme that read: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Believe it or not there isn’t a single person you need in this life more than yourself. Put her first.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    Yessss to that confirmation! Remember Mama, PUT YOURSELF FIRST. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Go enjoy your self care day because you deserve it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ~Your girlfriend Jen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By Jennifer White As a wife and mom, one can easily get caught up in  work,  parenting,  cooking,  cleaning  and ALL of your day-to-day tasks.  I\u2019m sure much like it is in my home, as \u201cmom\u201d, everyone relies on YOU.  Trust and believe me I love my family, but some days it can be overwhelming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherhoodincolor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}