A New Paradigm for Self-Care

This article was submitted by member Susan McNamara. Susan is a Founding Member of the Women's Wellness Exchange, a community dedicated to women in wellness, holistic healing services, green products, and peer-to-peer and industry expert insights.

We create our realities, and therefore our lives, moment by moment. We weave together stories in our minds and with one another that we refer to as “truth.” Ones that knowingly and unknowingly tell us what is likely, possible, and real. We gather these stories from our families of origin, our schools, our churches, the times we are living in, the books we read, the media we consume, our own personal and unique experiences and constitutions, our healthcare system, and so much more. 

Contrary to how many of us believe and behave, there is no something or someone out there that determines our lives for us. It is, none other than us, doing the determining. And it is all based on what we choose to believe in.

Have you ever stopped to wonder, or better yet, question, where your beliefs around health come from? At the very heart of this question is an invitation to begin the process of asking the larger and the deeper questions around how it is that you not only take care of yourself, but also who and what it is that you look to for help. 

For instance, do you tend to expect your health care professionals to know more about your body and your life than you do? Do you live at a distance from your own body, treating it like a machine that should run 24/7, while expecting your practitioners to fix you as a mechanic would fix a car? Do you decide how well you are compared to what comes across a screen?

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