Nurture Yourself, Sis! It’s Your Birthright.

Nurture yourself isn’t the buzz word
that “self-care” is, but it definitely should be because Black
women doing life from a place of exhaustion and overwhelm has
been the running theme since our ancestors were stolen from
Mother Africa and if anyone deserves nurturing it’s Black
women. 


And before you come for us, yes we [Shirl and Natty] know that
self-care and nurturing yourself ride in the same
lane of the self-love highway, but rather than lump
everything into one self-care vehicle, we thought it would be fun
to break self-care down into five nurture
yourself energy fueled vehicles aka categories.
A few things that came up in today’s
conversation:

 – Why Black women are slowly moving from the space of I
hate it here to I love it here
 – The five categories of nurturing yourself and why you
need ALL of them
 – How self-awareness and self-acceptance contribute to how
you nurture yourself
– Nurture Yourself Bingo Cards and how to use
them (Grab yours HERE)   
                 
                 
                
                 
 



LINKS YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU CLICKED ON

Cultivate a daily practice of nurturing yourself with Nurture
Yourself Bingo
Nurturing yourself does not have to be difficult, but it does
need to be consistent, so why not make it fun. Nurture Yourself
Bingo is divided into five categories – one category per card.
Each category has twenty-four activities to support you in a
daily practice of nurturing yourself. All you need to do to get
started is print the cards, laminate them, and start nurturing
yourself.


Do one activity daily, marking a X in the squares as you go
until you get bingo. Once you get bingo, do something to
celebrate yourself. If you get bingo on more than one card at
the same time, up the celebration. Alternatively, you can work
on one card at a time and/or do more than one activity a day.
It’s your practice, do what feels right for you. Whatever you
decide, we’ve got FIVE CATEGORIES & 124
WAYS for you to do it.


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