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Hi, besties. Welcome back or welcome to Trinidad to Care. If you're new here, hello, my name is

Ashley. I'm so happy to have you. If you're listening to this in real time, it's February.

And for the month of February,

aka the month of love, I want to do episodes relating to love, whether that be love towards

yourself or love towards someone else. So today I want to talk about self-care. When you think of

self-care, our minds immediately go to physical self-care, or at least mine does.

When I think self-care, I think exercising, drinking water, painting your nails, getting a facial, doing your skin care, which are all really great things to do to take care of yourself.

But I think self-care goes so much deeper. I was scrolling

on Pinterest and I saw an image that said 12 steps to self-care and none of them were physical

and I really liked that, which got me thinking, what are 10 things that I do or that I think

are beneficial to taking care of yourself that isn't necessarily

physical self-care. And that is what today's episode is, 10 ways that aren't physical

that contribute to self-care. Before we get into today's episode, make sure to follow my socials.

They're linked in the show

notes. And I talk more about the podcast and self-improvement and just like my day-to-day life

on there. So if you're interested, check this out. They're in the show notes. Okay, let's get into it.

Okay, so number one is the closest one of the tend to being physical. Like it isn't, but it is.

And that's listening to your body and learning how to communicate with it.

I think when we're busy and our mind is preoccupied, we forget to listen to our body

and acknowledge how we actually feel.

I used to go the entire day without having any water because I would be working or out with my friends or partying.

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