Taking Care of Yourself Well: Cultivating a Practice of Checking In

But sometimes as adults, we really struggle with this. There is so much pressure to constantly go and produce and do and check things off that it's hard to simply cancel work or cancel an activity, even a party or a commitment or a trip, because it's hard to slow down. And it can be so disappointing. But there are times when our body literally is screaming at us that “I can't do this.” And so I just wanted to take a couple minutes and talk about the concept of taking care of ourselves well, and a lot of that is cultivated by beginning to tune in more to how we are doing. And often the best place for this is to start with our bodies, to really do a body scan…