Mindfully Ever After The Podcast

Self-care is Self-love – Ep. 5 Mindfully Ever After The Podcast   Intro – In this episode, I’ll be teaching you the social norms that prevent you from taking care of you, the importance of taking care of you, the 6 areas of wellness, and tips to start making you a priority because making you a priority means your needs are important and that is what we call self-love. Let’s dive in. Let’s talk about workweeks because this tends to be the biggest barrier to proper self-care. Listen to this: 100 years ago, people clocked in 10 hours a day, worked 6 days a week, and then went to church on Sundays were for church…so not much time for you Thanks to the Jewish community and labor unions you were able to have at least Saturday, the one day you had completely to yourself Then in 1926, Henry Ford made it possible to have 2 days off per week, which inspired other companies to do the same… However, Henry Ford didn’t do it for altruistic reasons. It was more that he hated labor unions. So now we have the 5-day 40 hou