Category Archives: Self-care

Postcards from Summer: How to Turn an Ordinary Day Into Content Worth Posting

You Don’t Need a Concept, You Need a Moment

Postcards from Summer works because it removes the hardest part of content creation: deciding what to make.

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Take Care of Yourself Tuesday: The Power of Being Authentically You

Pride Month may be coming to a close, but being proud of who you are isn’t something that belongs to a single month on the calendar.

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Take Care of Yourself Tuesday: Build a Summer Bucket List That Is Actually About You

The summer bucket list has a reputation problem. It has become, for a lot of people, a performance document: a list of things that would look good in a caption, or that seem like the kind of things you should want to do in summer, rather than the things you actually want to do.

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Take Care of Yourself Tuesday: Summer Self-Care Rituals That Actually Stick

Summer has a way of disrupting routines. The structure of cooler months loosens, schedules shift, and the things you carefully built into your weeks can quietly dissolve in the heat. By mid-June many people find that the self-care habits they had in spring have slipped away without them quite noticing.

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Take Care of Yourself Tuesday: How Confidence Became the Best Thing You Can Offer

Confidence is one of those things that sounds simple and is actually quite difficult. Not because it requires a particular appearance, background, or set of accomplishments, but because it requires a relationship with yourself that most people have never been explicitly taught to build.

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National Doughnut Day and the Art of Enjoying Things Without Earning Them

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, most of us absorbed the idea that enjoyment needs to be justified.

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Take Care of Yourself Tuesday: What Your Summer Playlist Says About Your Mental Health

There is a reason you reach for certain songs at certain times. It is not random and it is not just taste. The music you are drawn to is a form of emotional self-regulation, a way your nervous system is trying to give itself something it needs.

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Take Care of Yourself Tuesday: Rest Is Productive Too

This Take Care of Yourself Tuesday, we want to remind our Flirts of something important: rest is not laziness. Rest is necessary.

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Summer Brain Is Real: Take Care of Yourself in the Heat

There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that shows up during a heatwave.

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Take Care of Yourself Tuesday: Why Fresh Air Is the Reset You Didn’t Know You Needed

There’s something about this time of year that feels different.

The air softens. The light lingers a little longer, and suddenly, everything feels like it has the potential to shift, even your mood.

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