Name: How to practice self care without spending money
Uploaded: 2025-11-21T16:55:06.000Z
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Let's talk about how to practice self care without spending money.

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I think self care has been so convoluted and confused with the justification of spoiling yourself.

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When we think about self care, it often evokes images of like face masks or taking yourself out to dinner.

It's like around this activity, which means money leaving your wallet.

I know so many people who are like, instead of making an emergency fund account, I bought a popcorn machine.

But let's be real, like, most of us need to see self care as taking responsibility for our lives.

Are you using that popcorn machine even once?

Start seeing self care as the intuitive regulation of your nervous system, as the essential planning that you put into making your life go smoothly, as getting all your shit together, putting it in a bag and leaving.

Self care in my mid-30s, it looks different for me now.

Like it's more about delegation, carving out time for rest, and

controlling my impulse to turn my house into a cat sanctuary.

I was like 30,000 doll in debt, couldn't pay my rent.

I was buying groceries at the 99 cent store.

So free forms of self care when I was in that space looked like walking for 30 to 45 minutes.

I go for a run once a year just to make sure that if I was being chased I could probably get away.

But for the most part, I stick to walking.

You can do yoga or stretching or workout classes for free on YouTube.

Great for endorphins, great for your physical health breathing exercises.

Like, I have done so many drugs, you guys, and I no longer do any drugs.

So caffeine, exercise and breathwork are the only highs I have left.

If you need an escape from your mind, reading is the easiest thing to do.

If you can't afford books, you can go to the library.

You can even download the Libby app, which is the library ebook app in case you are not driving or walking distance from a physical location.

And education, I think for a lot of us, self care looks like educating ourselves.

When I was broke, there was nothing more that I wanted in this world than to not be broke.

So I started investing in my financial education.

I'd go to the library, I would read every book on finance that I could understand at that level.

And for you, this may look like educating yourself about Something you're really interested in or learning a new skill.

There's endless free educational resources out there.

I think a really excellent one was created by the Green brothers.

It's a free YouTube channel with a variety of topics that you can explore.

What are your goals for this month, this year?

You know, whether that's finding employment or having kinder self talk or burning this journal entirely.

For me, it's always involved planning and introspection.

It's taking the time to think about my life, where it is and where I wanna be and the tangible steps and I can take to make that vision come true.

And finally, like, if you need to gamify all of this, right, like if you're like, anna, I want to do all this, but

a regular old to do list, it just doesn't do it for me.

You can either make it yourself or you can download a form for free on the Internet and print it out.

I have started doing this with my goals and I don't know, guys, but

putting everything in like a bingo card has completely changed the game for me.

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