In this video, I want to share with you some signs and triggers that will help you identify when self care is needed. As you can see, we have physical signs. Some of them are chest pain or pounding heart. If you are feeling fatigue, if you have reduced interest in sex, if you are getting calls more often than normal, that's our call assigned to if you are experiencing muscle tension pains and headaches, that could be another sign loss or change of appetite. If you have sleeping problems, and if you have constipation, diarrhea, things like that. Those could be physical signs that are telling you that there is something wrong and you need to do something about it.

Some triggers and physical signs. The non physical signs could be feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. This is a huge one feeling guilty. you're unhappy, being irritable, losing confidence and being not able to make decisions. Sometimes you just think negatively about everything. That's another sign that self care is needed.

Having racing thoughts, so basically being a butterfly studying a lot of the tasks, but not finishing any of them, that could be a symptom too, that you need self care and time for yourself, memory problems and excessive worry. So it's really important to read these ones and then try to identify when you are feeling this way. In my personal experience, for example, I am I am my own boss, I don't have anyone to tell me what to do. And sometimes the day is hard because I have to make the decision of what is the most important thing for me to do that day. And that's really overwhelming. Because our to do lists is so huge, that sometimes I have a really hard time deciding what I'm supposed to do.

And then sometimes I fall into that butterfly effect, I start doing one task, I don't finish it because I feel that I'm wasting my time I start doing another one. And all the sudden, three, four hours have passed, and they haven't completed anything. So that's when I have to, for me, that's a trigger, that's a sign that I need to stop, I need to do something else for five to 10 minutes, I need to calm my mind. And then I can go back and I can tell you that I become way more effective. My mind, my mind can then decide, okay, what is the most important thing right now to do? And now I can feel calm, I can feel relaxed and I can just start and finish a task and then move to the to the next one.

So that's an example for me. Another one is, sometimes we babysit our nephews and they demand a lot of attention. So if we have them for a whole weekend, we sense that self care is needed a lot. So what we do Samantha myself we take turns is not that we had our way the whole day, but Maybe I go myself one hour or an hour and a half to the gym, and I enjoy playing squash. So I just go with a friend play some squash and come back. Also, I can go for a bike ride.

Again, it's time spent with yourself. And then I come back and I have a completely different mindset and attitude. And then someone says I can do it then. So those are just a few examples of our lives and what how we integrate self caring in our day. Another example is being here. Now, instead of being at home, recording this course we thought, how can we go somewhere, have fun, have family time, and at the same time, do some work.

And this is what we are doing. Now. We can to Tobermory, Samantha's parents live here. So we spend time with them. And then we have family time, and then we have quiet time. Now we are working and we get to do a little hike and we get to share all this beauty with you.

So this is another example of how you can embrace self care into your life. So keep watching the next videos on we are going to dive into all the topics