Hello, you're listening to the Lila Rose Show. This is Lila, and today's topic is on self-care or selfishness.

Is it good to care for ourselves? What does it even mean to care for ourselves?

What does it even mean to care for ourselves?

And how do we avoid it turning into selfishness,

especially in a world and at a day and age

when there are so many opportunities to just focus on me and buy stuff for me and care about me and so much of life is truly lived in loving and serving others.

So my short answer, this spoiler alert you could say for this episode,

is that self-care is absolutely essential. Self-care is absolutely essential, but it matters why we're doing it and what we're doing,

because otherwise it of course can turn into selfishness.

And first of all a shout out to any of the moms who are listening to this podcast.

We have a pretty diverse group of people who listen and moms I know and dads are some of the

the audience some folks are also single or dating or teenagers but we've got a lot of moms.

And moms, I think especially, they work really hard,

they love really hard.

By nature, we're created to actually nurture and love physically. I mean a baby starts their life in our

womb and our body and then our life is spent with so much of that love and nurture for our child and

I'm not saying dads don't have their own

profound experience of this too but I think it's so important especially for moms

and dads to practice a healthy and a truly good self-care because it helps us to actually love others.

And that's the core principle that I think is at the heart of good self-care, which is this. We are given as gifts our bodies, our minds, and our

souls. Our bodies, minds, and souls are all gifts. Our lives are gifts. And it's up to us to

care for and cherish and cultivate the gift that we've been given of our bodies, minds, and souls in order, in order, so that we can then love

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