This Rapport feature and blog post has suggestions to help you improve your comfort levels by experimenting with DIY and home decor. As the nights draw in and weather makes outside feel less tempting, it’s a great time to reassess your living arrangements. What would help you feel more at home in your home? Might some tiny tweaks and simple changes make you (and wanted guests) feel more welcome? You can scroll down or read the full Laura DeBarra inspired feature (with comment…

Do you ‘should’ yourself around your self care and Self* care practices? You deserve exquisite self care. Learn to luxuriate in even the most boring elements of it. You’re worth it (and it’s pretty much free)… I’m generally really lucky with my back but have been experiencing some lower back issues the past few days. Promising myself a proper, full yoga practice, I STILL kept putting it off apart from doing a few emergency poses to ease the discomfort.

I turned 9 this week so the human asked me to share more of my Cat Coaching ideas to help y’all Feline Better Every Day. Here are 9 — one for each year, geddit? Sorry, I’ve been influenced by the human…

This week, we’re looking at some of the self care coaching lessons this painful but powerful new Netflix film can offer for sexual assault and other trauma survivors and victims… While billed as ‘Ani’s perfect life crumbles when a new documentary about her past threatens her future’, it’s obvious from early on that this ‘perfect life’ sounds exhausting, lonely and completely unsustainable. Unprocessed trauma has an impact every day

It was delightful to be back in London last week for BACP’s Supervision conference focusing on the joys as well as challenges of supervision. My first In Person conference since before Covid! https://youtu.be/nVPhDBiIhRo Dr Michelle Seabrook on the role of supervision in supervisee wellbeing Because my whole practice is based around the importance of self care and I’m very clear that I see supervision as self care (a safe space to reflect on your whole practice), I think this was my favourite session.

This week, we’re doing more shadow work, connecting with our inner emotionally snotty selves. I know. Almost scarier than connecting with that higher, wiser more miraculous self but just as potent… Lizzo has been such an amazing role model for me — listening to that phenomenal voice, her lyrics, her exuberance, her JOY and her ownership of ALL the feelings — that I thought y’all might like this. ‘Oh, Eve’s being needy again.’

Do you ever get psyched out by the enormous gulf between where you are and where you want to be with your self care (and Self care) practice/s? This post encourages you to aim high AND bridge the gap When I wrote 365 Ways to Feel Better; Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing in 2016, I emphasised the need for readers to congratulate themselves for all they DO do already and to not make self care yet another stick to beat themselves up with.

Give your Self a break. That Highest, Wisest, Truest most Miraculous, Wildest part of yourself needs nourishment. As Cheryl Strayed’s mother used to say (inspiring her journey in Wild), ‘Put yourself in the way of beauty.’ What might that be? For me, the sea always hits the spot. The sea in the video here somersaulted me twice as it was sooo choppy. So magical to be reminded of the benefits of diving INTO the turbulence instead of trying to avoid.

How do you approach self care practices when you tell yourself you ‘should’ or when you say (about the same practices) you ‘deserve’ it? I remember writing the introduction to the book, 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing back in 2016 and making it clear that each idea was simply an option, not yet more ‘shoulds’ for readers to beat themselves up about NOT doing. And I routinely remind…