MIND BLOWN – Self-care is completely different than what I initially suspected. But it makes so much sense. Inside this series, we’re re-defining self-care using the enneagram.
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Self-care is nothing new. It’s a concept said to have been kicked around since Ancient Greece. Of course, like everything we have the intended purpose and the abused definition that has made self-care all too confusing.
Of course, we can’t argue that it’s natural to define self-care in your own way. And many people and different groups have throughout generations. But I think the latest definition of self-care that looks more like self-indulgence confuses the real meaning of what self-care means.
re-defining self-care
In the shuffle of bath bombs and structured routines, we can lose ourselves or fail to find ourselves, which means we’ve not participated in self-care but rather self-indulgence. Don’t get me wrong, I love the word indulgence just as much as you, and there is nothing wrong with a nightly bath, an occasional massage, or getting your nails done.
Those are all well and good, necessary and caring for yourself in some way but we can’t let self-indulgence steel what needs to be the real and accurate definition of self-care – which means to know yourself enough to know how to care for yourself.
Not to care for yourself in a way someone else has defined – because this isn’t a picture of you but of you slapping someone else’s needs onto yourself. The truth of the matter is, there are a lot of people making big money with the new idea of self-care and making you buy into the idea that this is the path to health.
I’m clearly on a rant – but I think this needs to be crystal clear.
Self-care is not defined by the world but by you – by knowing yourself, the whole of who you are and then caring for that being in the way that brings you life. Can it look like self-indulgence, absolutely – but it doesn’t often start there. It begins by knowing yourself – the real being under all of the masks.
So how do we do that? Inside this podcast, I talk about the importance of digging up what self-care means to you and why this is important. I also show you how to learn more about your true self using the Enneagram. It’s the start of The Ennea-Health Series, and it all begins right here.
self-care = self-knowledge
The line between self-indulgence and self-care is quite fuzzy. As I mentioned, self-indulgence isn’t wrong per se, but it’s not an accurate definition of self-care.
There’s a level of self-care that can only come from knowing who you are and what care means for you. Not some definition created by someone else but the inward parts of who you are. It’s there that you’ll start to uncover what caring for that being means.
It’s there that we can dig into our true desires and needs and start to heal the inner parts of our selves. This is self-care, the healing, the care that comes from the inner work that you do. The work that won’t be done by taking nightly Epsom salt baths or choosing a Friday Netflix Binge.
They can be a start or a part of the process, but it’s not the process. THE process begins with knowing thyself.
know thyself
The last few years of my healing journey have included getting to know myself on a new level. One I had no intention of getting to until I had to. But I found in the healing I’ve released so much of what held me back.
I found things that could never have been masked with another diet or fad.
Things that could never be satisfied with the instant fix.
As I started digging into who I was, I took the Enneagram test – I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to gain from it, considering I had taken nearly every other personality test available.
But I was quickly surprised at how beneficial this tool was – because it didn’t just tell me how I work well, but it told me where my pitfalls were, where my weaknesses overtook my strengths and how to get to the healthiest version of myself. It gave me the standard, the guide to direct me down the path of healing, of uncovering and unleashing the real version of myself that I had lost somewhere between childhood and adulting.
the enneagram
By now you’ve probably encountered the enneagram at some point – and whatever your beliefs are about it {even if you’re thinking NOT AGAIN} bear with me – because I believe this new series we’re embarking on, The Ennea-Health Series is going to be one of the best ones yet.
To show you how you work well, how you don’t, and how to utilize your strengths to create nourishing health rhythms that stick.
To exercise based on your personality and eat the same way. There is so much you’ll learn from this simple test. Inside this series, I’m going to break it all down, type by type to bring you what you need to know to live in health all while being true to yourself.
If you’ve questioned why nothing has stuck – no diet has worked – and why you’ve fallen off the wagon a hundred times before – this could bring you the answers you’ve been looking for. All while making the pivot to take action in ways that make sense for you.
what type are you?
To get started in this series, we have to know what type are you?
There are nine types of enneagram and three triads. We’re going to be talking about the triads on the show but for now, find out which enneagram number you are. Trust me; you’re going to want to take a test and then pick up some resources and read about the numbers. It’s a journey of learning, but there’s no better time to get started than now.
Here are my favorite enneagram tests:
resources
It wouldn’t hurt to pick up a few books to help you take a deeper dive into your type.
Here are some of my favorite books and other resources:
ennea-health series
This is episode one of the Ennea-health series! Check back weekly as I’ll be releasing how to get healthy based on your enneagram number, and then I’ll also be interviewing someone with that specific type. I hope this series is encouraging and can provide you with the necessary resources to take action with your health.
The goal is to create nourishing lifestyle rhythms that stick!
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