You're listening to the Girl Nextdoor podcast. I'm Erica. And I'm Kelsey. We're two former next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend.

Hey friend. So today's episode is all about the phrase that has become a little cliche, honestly, which is self-care. But we thought it important to talk specifically about pandemic self-care. Like everything else, COVID has completely changed the way taking care of ourselves looks. And some of the tips and tricks or go-to routines have definitely been disrupted.

So let's just have a real honest chat about what this looks like for us right now and a few

ideas that are working. I thought it might make the most sense for each of us to just kind

of talk about it in the different realms of health. So physically, mentally, spiritually,

socially, emotionally, kind of how we're doing. And some might overlap. But

let's start with physically. How are we physically taking care of our persons? Okay. I love it.

Okay. So for me, something that I feel like I am doing on a daily basis, putting on real clothes.

And for me, this includes earrings. Over the past couple of

years, I've just come to really love putting on earrings, that makes me feel like me, and is kind of

just a symbol to me that I feel put together. And so putting on real clothes every day really

helps me. Also, making the bed, which I used to not be

a bed maker, and I have made a 180. And now, not only, I used to love having the bed made, but I

wouldn't make it. I would wait for Chris to make it. And now I sort of look forward to making it. It just is a way,

a small way that I feel like I have control and I start off the day feeling productive.

And then there's this like one part of my house that is set. And I really love that.

Moving my body. So for me, lately this has been going out for morning

or evening jogs. I just find that it clears my head. I never regret going for a run. I never

feel worse. I mean, I might feel really hot, but I don't feel worse. It definitely helps just lower my stress, gives me that

chance to just be out of the house because definitely so many days can go by where I am just

in the house. And I don't realize, it's sort of like you don't realize how powerful it is to just

get out of the house.

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