This is the Do It Scared Podcast with Ruth Sukup episode number 35.

In today's episode we are going to talk about daring to make time for self-care in our life,

even when we're not quite sure we deserve it.

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podcast listeners. Hey there and welcome back to the Do It Scared Podcast. My name is Ruth Sookup and I am the founder of Living Well Spinning Less and the Living Well Planner as well as the founder of elite blog academy and the New York Times best-selling author of five, soon-to-be six books.

Whether you are brand new and just finding me through this podcast for the very first time,

or whether you've known me for a while from either Living Well Spending Less or Elite Blog Academy,

welcome. My hope is that this is a place where you will find new inspiration and motivation

to move past the things that are holding you back so that you can create a life you love.

In today's episode, we are going to chat about a topic that I don't think we talk about nearly enough. Maybe because it feels

selfish or self-indulgent or because we feel guilty even wanting it. And that's self-care. More specifically, daring to make time, real time in your life for taking

care of yourself, for nurturing your body and your soul for filling up your tank and making your own needs a priority.

Because truthfully, for so many of us this just doesn't happen or it happens way too infrequently.

For moms and women, especially,

we are constantly putting our own needs on the back burner

in order to take care of the people around us.

But what happens then is that we get burned out and that makes everything worse.

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