How to Honour Yourself Whilst Caring for Others

finding yourself while still looking after others? This is a question that I asked myself over the weekend and I just felt called to really share this with you today because I think it's an important thing.

As highly sensitive women, we tend to look outside of ourselves more than looking within ourselves, don't we? So we spend the majority of our time caring for other people, looking for other people and really feeling, I guess, what other people are feeling.

So I thought it was an important question for us to start to ask ourselves.

So I'm going to share a little story with you about how this came into my awareness over this past weekend.

So as many of you would know that I am a mum to two adult daughters, Gabby and Grace.

So Gabby is 24 and Grace is 21.

Now, I'm also Gabby's full time carer because she has epilepsy, autism and a few other diagnoses that I don't need to go into.

But just to give you an idea of, you know, where this started.

So the home that we live in, it is a four bedroom home.

One of those bedrooms is used as my home office.

Now, for a while, I've noticed in her room that she has seemed a little cramped and the design of the room isn't great.

So it has, you know, the built in wardrobe, but that built in wardrobe doesn't comes out from the wall, so it's not flush against the wall, so it takes up quite a bit of unnecessary space.

You know, I've been thinking of different ways to help her, like do I need to invest in some new furniture for her, maybe some slimline furniture that would just give her that extra space that she needs, because you know, she's at home a lot of the time.

So like I said, I care for her 24 seven.

So she spends a good amount of time, you know, in her bedroom.

So for me, I was like, that needs to be a comfortable space for her and a space that is spacious that she can feel, you know, comfortable in there.

She can do the things that she likes to do.

So, you know, I thought, oh, maybe I could buy some new furniture.

You know, I've rearranged her room countless times trying to get the right setup that would give her that room.

And then all of a sudden it kind of came to me.

It was like, well, what if I swapped with her? You know, I have, like I said, one of the bedrooms is my home office.

What if I swap with her? Because that room is set up a lot better.

The cupboards are flush against the wall, so it doesn't take up any additional space.

So I thought, well, maybe I could do that.

So then I could move my office into her bedroom and then she could have where it used to be my home office.

finding yourself while still looking after others? This is a question that I asked myself over the weekend and I just felt called to really share this with you today because I think it's an important thing.

As highly sensitive women, we tend to look outside of ourselves more than looking within ourselves, don't we? So we spend the majority of our time caring for other people, looking for other people and really feeling, I guess, what other people are feeling.

So I thought it was an important question for us to start to ask ourselves.

So I'm going to share a little story with you about how this came into my awareness over this past weekend.

So as many of you would know that I am a mum to two adult daughters, Gabby and Grace.

So Gabby is 24 and Grace is 21.

Now, I'm also Gabby's full time carer because she has epilepsy, autism and a few other diagnoses that I don't need to go into.

But just to give you an idea of, you know, where this started.

So the home that we live in, it is a four bedroom home.

One of those bedrooms is used as my home office.

Now, for a while, I've noticed in her room that she has seemed a little cramped and the design of the room isn't great.

So it has, you know, the built in wardrobe, but that built in wardrobe doesn't comes out from the wall, so it's not flush against the wall, so it takes up quite a bit of unnecessary space.

You know, I've been thinking of different ways to help her, like do I need to invest in some new furniture for her, maybe some slimline furniture that would just give her that extra space that she needs, because you know, she's at home a lot of the time.

So like I said, I care for her 24 seven.

So she spends a good amount of time, you know, in her bedroom.

So for me, I was like, that needs to be a comfortable space for her and a space that is spacious that she can feel, you know, comfortable in there.

She can do the things that she likes to do.

So, you know, I thought, oh, maybe I could buy some new furniture.

You know, I've rearranged her room countless times trying to get the right setup that would give her that room.

And then all of a sudden it kind of came to me.

It was like, well, what if I swapped with her? You know, I have, like I said, one of the bedrooms is my home office.

What if I swap with her? Because that room is set up a lot better.

The cupboards are flush against the wall, so it doesn't take up any additional space.

So I thought, well, maybe I could do that.

So then I could move my office into her bedroom and then she could have where it used to be my home office.