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Taking Care Of You: Recognize Your Stress In these times you hear almost everyone talking about stress in their daily lives. Then you throw in a writer’s life. Yup, you really need to take care of yourself. The first thing you need to do is recognize your stress. What are your stressors and how do you react? Now what are you going to do about it? I have a fairly good idea about my stressors these days. So, the first part of taking care of me is prevention. Try to keep a healthy body to fight the stress and its…
Taking Care Of You: Sleep. My sincere thanks to Dee Carver for inviting me to share on her website. Dee is special to me. She’s not just someone I know online — she’s also a great friend. I trust her with the keys to my kingdom. She is my website designer and guru. Today happens to be her birthday. Dee, I hope your day is lovely all day long! When Dee asked me to talk about self-care for authors, my mind immediately went to one particular topic. It’s the one thing that has changed my life to give me not…
Work-life balance remains an illusion for many, even those who are self-employed. And for authors. The pressure to add to the bank account, land that next client, write the next book pounds at us day and night. That’s one reason authors panic when they hit the dreaded writer’s block. Some push through the block, forcing words to flow onto the page and knowing that those words just suck. So, on top of creative stoppage the writer also suffers from acute disappointment in herself. Or himself. Let’s add to that the normal and often overwhelming demands of family. Some of us…
Taking Care Of You: ME Time. Being a single mom during the week and working with various authors, my day can be hectic. Not to mention my week. My husband works out of town and only home on the weekends. I try to leave those days for family time. We have 5 children ranging from 8 to 23. The two oldest are out on their own which helps but we also have two grandchildren with two on the way. During the week, after getting the kids off to school, I come back and get the house straightened up and laundry…