393: Self-Care To Regulate Your Nervous System with Theresa Steighner

The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant · Nov 16, 2023 · 37m

What image comes to mind when you think about self-care?

A massage or bubble bath?

A fancy dinner?

Being all zenned out in lotus pose?

Though these things can be wonderful, I also think they can give self-care a bad name by portraying it as something fun, frivolous and even a little selfish.

In reality, true self-care – or what I like to call "therapeutic self-care" – is absolutely essential to our well-being and our ability to show up for those around us.

Therapeutic self-care is about meeting your core needs as a human – mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. It's an inside job first…