Invitation To Self-Care, An: Why Learning to Nurture Yourself Is the Key to the Life You've Always Wanted, 7 Principles for Abundant Living - Softcover

Cleantis, Tracey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616496797 ISBN 13: 9781616496791

Publisher: Hazelden Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Too often, we settle for the notion that self-care means giving ourselves treats and rewards for good behavior. But it's so much more than that. Welcome to the self-care revolution! A day of indulgence at a spa-or at home on the couch-might help us unwind and feel temporarily renewed, but is that all there is to self-care? With this follow-up to her groundbreaking first book, Tracey Cleantis changes the dialogue about taking care of ourselves and demonstrates why real self-care is more than just routine self-indulgence. Feelings of lasting satisfaction, fulfillment, and joy are all influenced by your self-care mind-set. An Invitation to Self-Care uncovers seven principles for care that are rooted in self-empowerment and self-knowledge. Through personal stories and observations, exercises and quizzes, and interviews with experts and everyday people, you are invited to consider self-care across your relationships, finances, spiritual and professional life-and more. Tracey's approach to care helps us realize that by accepting who we are, what we need, and how those needs evolve over time, we create space for self-care's transformational magic in our lives. This book is an invitation to explore how an authentic self-care practice is the secret to the life you've always wanted.

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Review:

Self-care has become a frequent phrase in our culture. We are admonished to do it, shamed for not doing it or guilty for ignoring it. But what IS it? Ironically, I learned a lot about that when I was a caregiver for an ill and disabled spouse. If I did not attend to self-care, I became unable to meet the high demands of her illness and our life together. Still, I could not have defined it in such eloquent terms as Tracey Cleantis in her new book, An Invitation to Self-Care: Why Learning to Nurture Yourself Is the Key to the Life You've Always Wanted.
In an inviting and conversational tone, Tracey helps us evaluate what we are doing to successfully and less successfully take care of ourselves in every aspect of our lives, including personal, work, play, financial and spiritual. She helps to make the daunting project of attending to ourselves reachable and inviting, offering powerful tools to evaluate, invent and implement self-care starting right where we are. Building on the lessons of her first book, The Next Happy, she shares how she herself created a life that invites the very best results, from a compassionate and forgiving place. Not only will you gain valuable tips on how to take better care of yourself, you'll also recognize the powerful ways you are already doing so. A must read!" --Cheryl Jones, LMFT Therapist, educator and host of Good Grief Radio

If self-care feels like one more thing you must do, do yourself a big favor and pick up this book. With humor and real-world frankness, Tracey Cleantis offers expert insight into what self-care is, what it isn't, and how to realistically move yourself up your already-full priority list. From the very first chapter, you'll learn how to treat yourself with respect and make better decisions about the way you care for your most valuable asset...you. --Lisa Manterfield, author of I'm Taking My Eggs and Going Home: How One Woman Dared to Say No to Motherhood and Life Without Baby: Surviving and Thriving When Motherhood Doesn't Happen



I have been exploring self-care for a long time, for my readers, clients, and for myself. I have landed here: Self-care is self-acceptance. In this book, Cleantis gets to the absolute heart of self-care and leaves you with real and radical, usable and practical tools. I promise you, you will be better for reading this book. I know I am...with this string of words fastened to my all-too-often self-careless mind: Beauty, comfort, kindness. --Laura Munson--New York Times best-selling author of This Is Not The Story You Think It Is and founder of Haven Writing Retreats

About the Author:

Tracey Cleantis is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the author of the critically acclaimed book The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward. She lives in Pasadena, California with her fiance Keith and her dog Lily.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1616496797
• ISBN 13: 9781616496791
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200