Hello world, it's Sham Voodrom, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Thursday.

If you don't know, I'm a certified sexologist, podcast host and I'm a mama.

Today's episode is for all the caregivers out there.

As caregivers, we put others first and that's a blessing, but we also need to make sure

there's time for us.

I'm going to talk about how to make time for yourself when you're a caregiver and how

becoming a mom changed the way that I practice self-care.

I would define a caregiver as someone who takes care of another person or people who need

help taking care of themselves.

I think caregivers struggle with self-care so much because they define themselves on their

ability to give to others and it doesn't always leave room for giving to themselves, so

they can often forget or leave that part to the wayside.

But I think that's why we have to remind ourselves that caring for ourselves is an integral

part as a matter of fact, it's the foundational part of being a good caregiver.

And that goes back to that example that we all love.

When we're on an airplane, you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself first before

you can tend to others because someone who is oxygen deprived has poor motor skills is

acting out of a place of panic and as a result, might end up passing out and not able to

actually fulfill the duty that they want to.

Pregnancy massively changed my view of self-care for the better.

As a matter of fact, when I got pregnant, I was like, I was not doing the self-care thing

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