by Carolyn Thomas     ♥    @HeartSisters   

Well, we’re into the New Year now. For some of us, that’s almost enough time to notice small cracks beginning to appear in the boldly announced resolutions made in the midst of all that post-Christmas excess. I’ve already, for example, ditched the Lettuce Leaf Diet I was contemplating for 2025 after all that Christmas feasting.

During the last century, when I was one of the volunteer run leaders at our local Y Marathon Training Clinic, we’d often hear lofty New Year’s resolutions from first-timers signed  up for our 10-month training program each January – something like:

“This is the year I’m finally going to quit smoking, lose 20 pounds and run a marathon!”

“Honey,” I would say gently to them:   “Pick one!”          .  Continue reading “What if we call them “self-care promises” instead of resolutions?” →