You know me, but do you know what else I love? shameless self-promotion? Youth and Consequences YouTube Red March 7th

oh girl thank you for the plug but seriously i also really love practising self-care by getting tattoos with my best friend on valentine's day

-off screen- happy valentine's dayyy, oh it looks great

-off screen- getting there

it's happening

I'm trying so hard not to look like I'm in pain

does it hurt?

yeah, I mean it feels good but it hurts

one thing I really wanted to do this year was to take care of myself but when i was like sitting down and thinking like

okay what does this actually look like

All i could come up with was like go get a massage once a month and take yourself out to dinner and a movie

once a week or something, but as I've been living out the year i'm trying

to be very mindful of like okay actually like take care of yourself and treat yourself like your own child

i've noticed that self-care is about

so much more than just taking myself out on a date

Self-care is doing things that people don't necessarily agree with like one thing I do now is I don't go out if I don't want to

even if I've clicked attending on Facebook, even if I told the person I would be there I know I have a tendency

towards being a workaholic and if i'm exhausted and my body knows it, I listen to that and I bail

because sometimes i just need to stay at home and recharge by like journaling or drawing or just

vegging out in front of the tv

(ahh, I needed this)

I've also been forcing myself, to be really healthy to a very annoying degree like by going

to the gym and eating healthy vegan meals all year and even if it's not really fun you force yourself

to do it because you know what's gonna help in the long term manage all of your

anxieties and depression

I've cut out unhealthy people who don't give a shit about my well-being

I've quit stand-up and improv all together to focus on other artistic pursuits and when people ask me how I am, I tell them

terrible

- Okay

- how are you?

- not terrible

- oh that's cool

I don't necessarily tell them all the details but i also don't feel the need to lie

for the sake of making regular chitchat, if you're gonna ask me how I am you're gonna know how i am

And I've come to accept things about myself like that I'm hella extra that I'm assertive with the capability to be aggressive

and I will always love

Harassing my friends for their opinions on my scripts and my songs and my art even if it's 1am and they just got home

hell i even come to love things about myself that normally i agonize about

daaaaammmnnn girl

yo boobs looking hella smart today

and self-care for your life may look completely different, maybe you're the kind of person who needs to force yourself

to go to parties or social events because you know that's what you need or it means taking a day or two off of the gym

to completely rest or adopting a couple of cats because you're a responsible mature adult who's ready

to give love and receive love with beautiful furry children

Whatever self-care means to you incorporate it into your daily life not just as like a once a month or once a week occasion

Really come from the mindset that you're going to take care of yourself because if we don't who will

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