Self-care isn’t always soft. Sometimes it’s sweaty. Sometimes it’s structured. And sometimes, it’s sitting with the hard stuff.
Here’s how we break it down.

Short Term Self-Care
These are your daily recalibrations. The tools that help you reset, realign, and stay in motion.

• A solo run or gritty workout when your head’s noisy and your body needs an outlet
• Trying a new recipe that fuels your body and actually tastes good
• A hot bath with magnesium or essential oils. Recovery isn’t optional
• A movement flow designed to downshift your nervous system
• Setting a boundary that protects your time and peace
• Tuning into your breath, even for two minutes, because presence is power

These aren’t luxuries. They’re survival tactics in disguise.

Long Term Self-Care
This is the self-care that builds you. It invests in your future self instead of just managing the moment. Both of these are super important themes of self care.

• Taking a course that sharpens your mindset, movement, or mission
• Training for a fight, whether literal or metaphorical, because you’re done feeling small
• Joining a challenge that demands consistency and commitment
• Creating a recovery plan, not just a workout split
• Rebuilding self-trust by showing up for your goals, even when no one else sees it
• Letting go of the timeline and doing the work anyway

Long term self-care is strategy. It’s system-level healing. It’s training for the kind of strength you want to carry in five years, not just five minutes.

I try to add both. I am a huge fan of taking courses. Some of the best ones I have taken came from Imagine Institute for Learning  I took several courses that centered around boundaries and trauma informed care. Those helped me reframe how I see self care.

When it comes to short term self-care. I am currently working through a training injury and a lot of my self-care has been based in recovery.
Currently I am biohacking (post coming soon on that) and really enjoying the process. I love habit stacking my self-care and doing things like a movement flow, hot sauna or shower and dry brushing followed up by a homemade sore muscle salve and some tea or a refreshing mocktail.

When short term and long term paired together its a really good way to ensure lasting results of what you are trying to accomplish. Self-care isn’t just about self indulgence to me it is about creating healthy habits, boundaries and a safe space for me to push my self or recover slowly.

One of my biggest tips in pairing short term and long term self-care is journaling. You are better able to understand when you needed emotional self care vs. a harder approach. You will be able to see trends in how you feel, how you are responding to your self-care initiatives and more importantly what does not work.

I hope through this response based post that you find something of value and have a few ideas to add to your self care roster. If you need a little boost. Feel free to DM and we can chat about it.