by Bettina | Sep 29, 2026 | Self-care tips
My anxiety has always saved its worst for the evening. All day I’m too busy to feel it, and then the house goes quiet, the lights go low, and suddenly my mind decides it’s the perfect time to replay every awkward thing I’ve ever said and forecast...
by Bettina | Sep 24, 2026 | Self-care tips
I used to think relationships succeeded or failed on the big stuff — shared values, chemistry, whether you wanted the same life. Then I watched two couples I know closely go in opposite directions, and it wasn’t the big stuff that separated them. It was the...
by Bettina | Sep 17, 2026 | Self-care tips
I have a mantra I say under my breath in the grocery store when a decision feels too big, and I’d be embarrassed to admit how much it helps if it didn’t work so reliably. For a long time I thought mantras were something you screenshotted, felt briefly...
by Bettina | Sep 12, 2026 | Self-care tips
I started healing journaling during a stretch when I couldn’t afford therapy and couldn’t sleep. Scribbling in a cheap notebook at 11 p.m. because I had nowhere else to put the noise in my head. I expected it to feel silly. Instead, something loosened. Not...
by Bettina | Sep 8, 2026 | Self-care tips
I used to roll my eyes at affirmations. The idea of standing in front of a mirror telling myself I was confident felt like lying to my own face, and my brain knew it. What changed my mind wasn’t a self-help book. It was noticing, one ordinary week, how...
by Bettina | Sep 3, 2026 | Self-care tips
I fell in love with fall self-care by accident, on a grey Sunday in October when I was too tired to do anything ambitious and too restless to do nothing. I ended up lighting a candle, making a pot of tea I actually let steep, and reorganizing my bookshelf while it...
