Anxiety is an emotion we experience when we’re thinking about something bad that could happen in the future. Unfortunately, our brains often can’t tell the difference between actually living through this bad thing and just imagining it. This means if you find yourself overthinking about something to try to avoid a problem before it happens, this just makes you more stressed and can leave your nervous system seriously dysregulated.

When we hear the words "self care", we usually think of spa days and massages and vacations, or other big exciting things like that. And even though most people can acknowledge that self care is "worth it", when we think of self care as these big (an often expensive) things, it's easy to say "I don't have time for self care" or "I can't afford to do self care".