Loneliness can happen to anyone at any time. It can be acerbated by special events or holidays. While many people experience it, most don’t acknowledge the feeling, so they don’t truly deal with it.

But there are ways that you can cope with loneliness in a nurturing way that’s based on self care. Try to determine what’s causing your loneliness, because sometimes you can be surrounded by people, but still lonely.

Knowing this can help you figure out what to do about it. Understand that just because you may feel lonely, it doesn’t mean that you’re alone. Recognize that loneliness can make you entertain thoughts that are false.

Sometimes the heaviness of the emotion can trick you into thinking that you’re alone in life or alone in whatever you’re going through. Loneliness can fool you into thinking that no cares about you or that you’re somehow defective, which is why you feel all alone. Continue reading →

Fatigue can be caused by health problems, but it can also be caused by a lack of self care. Taking care of yourself is the best way to cope with fatigue. If you’ve experienced a sudden onset of fatigue or if it’s something you’ve had for awhile, you need to first get that checked out by a doctor.

Fatigue is related to issues with the heart, endocrine system, sleep, and more. To cope with fatigue, make sure that you’re not just sitting around all day. When you’re living with this condition, it can make you not want to do anything.

But a lack of activity can actually increase fatigue. You might not feel that you have the energy to hit up the gym or to make it through a tough home workout and that’s okay. Just do something active.

If you’re overweight, that can cause fatigue. That’s because your body has to put out more effort to do the same tasks than if you weren’t overweight. This takes a toll on your energy and once that’s depleted, you start to have fatigue. Continue reading →

Chronic pain can impact your life, making it difficult to concentrate, hard to work or do the day to day activities that you used to. But living with chronic pain doesn’t have to be something that takes over your life.

By using self care strategies, you can cope with chronic pain and find some relief. Self care will help you be able to make it through the times when you feel like you can’t make it through one more day.

Understand that you’ll have ups and downs. On the bad days, it can affect your mood and when you get down emotionally, that can make it harder to deal with the pain. Find uplifting songs to listen to that calm your mind.

Don’t bottle up what you’re feeling or what you’re going through. It’s important that you express what it is you’re dealing with. Some people choose to do this by writing a blog where they talk about their struggles. Continue reading →