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Taking great care in your personal care is important, and how to do soul care is a part that is often neglected
I find that many people struggle to care for the parts of themselves that are intangible
Out of sight, out of mind
But just like taking care of mental health, doing soul care is important for you for be holistically healthy
What I love about soul care is that it lasts longer
I am not keeping up with my current needs
I am redefining my baseline, which makes my general life better
My default becomes closer to the powerful person I was always meant to be
The difference between self-care and soul care
Self-care is a way more common topic than soul care is
What is the difference between self-care and soul care?
The difference is the objective of the activities
With self-care, you are doing things to take care of your mind, body, and emotional health
With soul care, you are doing things to take care of your spirit and default health
They are two parts of replenishing your life
And are best when done together
If you do self-care without soul care, you will have a never ending chore of keeping yourself sane
If you do soul-care without self-care, it contradicts because the elevated version of you would not self-neglect
Soul care can be done with your religion, but it is not required
Affirmations are an example of soul care because they are intangible things that affect you on a mental and spiritual level
Why is soul care needed?
Soul care is an important partner for self care
If you have followed my blog at all, you know how important self care is!
While self car wise needed, the goal is to change your mindset so selfcare isn’t hard anymore
Instead of struggling with mom guilt every time, you start to live a life filled will peace and happiness
Routines and habits help you with the actions
But souls care will help you become the person you were always meant to be
You don’t have to think about a lot of the actions anymore because they are part of who you are
You don’t have to force yourself to practice gratitude because it will become natural
Self care and soul care are perfect partners
How to connect with your soul
Connecting with your soul is a personal experience, but there are actions you can do
The actions have results that you cannot see, but you’ll be able to feel
5 things you can do to connect with your soul daily are:
- Affirmations
- Gratitude
- Meditation
- Accepting your past
- Practice vulnerability
The great thing is that you can connect to your soul and take care of it at the same time!
How to do soul care: 5 actions you can take
When I started my holistic health journey, I ran from everything uncomfortable
And let me tell you.. that was everything
I worked constantly to avoid facing my emotions
Everytime I started working more, I would get used to it and need to work more to avoid my thoughts
It wasn’t until I started taking care of my soul that I could slow down and enjoy life
I still have room to improve, but I am so much better than I once was
So let dig into the 5 ways to connect with your soul
- Affirmations
Affirmations are simple but powerful statements to heal your soul
The more you go through life,, the more negative and painful beliefs you will gather if you aren’t mindful
Those negative beliefs will harm your soul and keep you from connecting to your true self
I was never meant to hate myself
I spent my whole childhood and young adulthood gathering beliefs that were harmful
The longer it self, the more I felt disconnected from myself
I only started feeling like me again when I used affirmations to fight those beliefs and create beliefs that nurtured my soul
Affirmations for moms may feel weird, and their effects are close to invisible…
But there will be a day where you realize how far you’ve come
Read my post on affirmations for moms to learn more
- Gratitude
I always thought of myself as a realist
But really….
I just thought of every negative thing that could happen and assumed they would happen
If something good did happen, I would barely acknowledge it
Then I would go straight back to focusing on the problems that needed to be fixed
Both real and imaginary problems
This lead to exhaustion, depression, anxiety, and just pre misery
I lived in fear
The only way to fight that fear was by practicing gratitude
Fun fact!
You cannot be grateful and fearful at the same time
I would think of 3 things I was grateful for every morning and night
I challenged myself to find new things
Maybe even mention specific moments
The goal was to learn to search the the good in my life instead of searching for the bad
I still have my moments where life feels like it’s caving in, but those moments are rare now instead of being common
- Meditation
Meditation is another powerful way to take care of your soul
This one is hard for me because I am constantly doing 3 or more things
So making myself stop and just focus on me is very challenging
If mediation is something you want to learn, then I would start with guided meditations
I like Gabby Bernstein
She has a calming voice and she is easy to follow
There are so many types of meditation and it is normal not to enjoy all of them
So test different styles out to see what is a match for you!
- Accepting your past
I grew up better than some and worse than others
My father provided for us financially (but was still very stingy), but was very mentally abusive
I spent a lot of my childhood begging for his love and doing everything I could to earn it
That resulted in a lot of trauma and a lot of beliefs to overcome
Then I found out as an adult that he made good money and he just pretended to be poor
It took a lot of time to accept that my past is not going to change and that his lack of love had nothing to do with me
I learned that his father was also abusive
I was a victim of a victim
When I learned to accept my past and determine a better future, my soul got a peace that I’d never experienced before
I don’t feel angry anymore
I still get slight jealousy when I see other women with great relationships with their dad
But I can quickly let that go now
By accepting my past and letting go of the expectations I had that were never going to happen, I got to focus on building a future that I want
- Practice vulnerability
Vulnerability is hard for most people
We don’t naturally want to accept our weaknesses and our faults
But when we pretend that we don’t have those weaknesses and faults, we are pretending that a huge part of us doesn’t exist.
We cannot have a happy and healthy soul when we do that
We need to take chances that may lead to rejection and failure
And then learn and grow through those rejections and failures
People pleasing is a huge problem in our society today
Our souls cannot be happy and healthy when we are pretending to be someone else in order to avoid rejection
The freedom you get when you let that need to please everyone go it incredible
I hope you put the work in to achieve that freedom
Now that you know how to do soul care, what will you start with?