Day 1: Introduction

    Hello Everyone! I hope you are doing well today. Me? I am doing well so far, just tired. Other than that…Let me introduce myself.

    My name is Venuz, I am 33 years old. I struggle with mental health like many of you out there, I also am a Type One Diabetic, I was diagnosed when I was just 5 turning 6 years old. I do not remember much about my diagnosis, majority of it I do. I have a rescue fur baby his name is Toby, and I love that dog very much so! Hes the love of my life! I am attending school as well, yes its tough attending school and work fulltime, but I am dong what I can to make it. 

    I love music, horror and comedy movies, I love going to concerts whenever I get the chance to. I love reading, as well as writing, I do not go out very much, other than taking Toby my dog for his daily walks, which I do enjoy just as much as he does. Majority of the time I rather just stay in and stay in bed other than walking the dog. I like attending to my therapist appointments, my therapist now I feel comfortable and happy with him, as it took me a while to find one I felt comfortable with. 

    I love riding my bicycle and taking Toby with me whenever I go out for a bicycle ride, as it makes me feel free. Riding my bicycle makes me happy as it helps me clear my mind just as much as walking does. If I had a car I would go out on drives as it also is calming in some type of way just as much as riding a bicycle.

    Everyday I try to take it slow, and remind myself to love myself a little bit more, and remind myself that I am worthy, and more than just enough. I try to take things slow, and do what I can to romanticize my life and see the beauty in everything. I do what I can do see the positive in every negative, and uplift someone that may be having a bad day, just as much as I do for myself. Everyday I remind myself that everything will be okay, as well as not stress myself for the things I cannot change, and the things I am able to change turn them in to the best thing. Some days can be rough but what I like to do when such days happen is to stay in with the dog, and do some self care, such as getting in the tub, put on a face mask, put Netflix/Amazon Video a podcast or a YouTube video on the background and relax. Journal to get my mind clear before taking a nap after getting in the hot tub. Also read a book, paint my nails and talk to my dog, helps me relax if I do stay at home and not do anything else. Reminding myself that it was just one ugly day, and that I can always turn it around and make it the best day ever, even if I stay in for the day/night. Pampering myself/selfcare days are always a good thing, specially if you just want to say in for the day/night and just stay in bed and do nothing else. It’s what I do.

            

             

Self-Care Before/After Work

    There is many different ways I think of self-care, one is staying home with my fur baby, and watching movies, some type of show on Netflix or Amazon, or some videos on YouTube. Stay in bed and do nothing at all, other than taking the dog out on his walks and that is it. Other times I of course feel like a clean freak and want to clean my whole apartment, make myself look really pretty and do all kinds of things, and take my fur baby along for the ride or long walks. Other times I want to stay home and do fake masks, make some yummy breakfast with a podcast or music on the background. or something like that, painting my nails and you know things like that.      But most important of all though self care is mental health. It took me a while to find a therapist that I felt comfortable with, and not judged. I love the therapist that I have! Yes I have in person sessions with him, but I am okay with that. I have had tried the Better Help thing, do not give me wrong it was nice to not have to come in to the office, I like the idea of not getting out of my house and just staying witht the dog. But at the same time, going to see my therapist give me in some way the chance to get out of the apartment for even a few hours. Yes self care comes in many ways, also in a self care routine there has to be the time to care for your mental well being. It did take me a while to find that ‘perfect’ therapist that I felt comfortable with but I finally did it! That for me is the first step of self care, as I am taking care of a big thing that will help me take care of everything else at the end of the day.

    Self care is my mental health first then  everything else that comes along with it all, such as face masks if any, going out on a walk with Toby, taking myself out on a date, and such things. Little by little I have done things differently, that have ended up being the bigger things. I have felt a little bit happier day by day, I dont feel as angsty on the daily basis as I used to. My self care comes along with taking care of my metal health first then the rest of it all. That for me is self care priorities, one of my routines that comes with it, as it does and will help me in many ways than otheres.

    Remember to take care of your mental health, do not be afraid to ask for help if you need it, reach out for help as you see fit. Talk to whoever you trust.

MENTAL HEALTH HELP

NAMI

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

SELF CARE *daily*

every day care

Very Well Mind

Self-Care Sunday

Hello Everyone!

    I hope you all are doing well! As well as I hope you all are staying gorgeous and amazing. Today though is a different type of blog for me as you may know by the tittle. As I often tend to forget or not do it as often as I would like to. Today in some way went for “that girl” type of self-care that most of you have seen on YouTube going around now a-days They have seen very popular to want to be "that girl" and I often do not know what type of girl they all want to be. I just see it as self-care videos and suck or something a typical teen/woman would do at least once a week. Some type of self-care, right?? Whatever self-care you are doing it counts, however you do it does not matter as long as it helps you resent yourself and makes you feel happy and such. go for it.

    I first started with taking my fur baby out for his walk, after browsing on my phone for a little bit. I know, I know! It is not good to be looking through my phone first thing waking up. But anyway! I made myself a cup of coffee and got ready to take my love bug out for his walk. Yea I know I look half awake! Plese don't mind my half-awake face on this picture please. 

    When we came back from his walk, I of-course changed in to my lazy clothes. Of course had to wash my face and teeth! You know do the whole flossing thing, mouthwash and whitening strips for the teeth. The whole shenanigans for the mouth because this girl has been a pure lazy butt rotting to death the last few weeks I've been home doing nothing after getting in to that one accident I doubt I have not talked here on the blog yet. I did though on my YouTube Channel a little bit. But anyway! lets continue1 here below is what I used to cleanse my face along with the peel-off mask that I used.

The peel off mast is the one I used and I love it! It smells so good! And I love how nice it leaves my face. That Clean & Clear face wash is quite nice as well. My face does not feel irritated or dry after. Though I did not use that moisturizer today, I do wan to say it smells really good! Very summery and refreshing! I must say. It does smell like watermelon! It makes my skin feel quite refreshed and soft. I bought it on GoPuff. I believe it was around $12.99 at the time I bought it, I just checked, and it is on sale for $9.67. The peel-off mask I bought it at Burlington last year for Christmas, I don't remember how much I paid for it, I apologize. While I waited for the face mask to do its thing and dry off, I did some journaling. Which helped me let things out that I otherwise would not talk about here, or with someone else. I believe a journal is your sacred space, where you can write down thoughts, feelings, anything else what you otherwise would not share with anyone else. 

This is the face cream I ended up using after I did my whole face ritual thing right there. But wait! I did not use it right away though. I got in the shower and washed my body off, of all smelly things and even shaved legs that needed some desperate shaving! and the underarms as well! and of course, the hair, and body. As I tend to do often like anyone else, but also if I plan to get in my bathtub I like to wash my body and take a good shower and take all dirty and smelly stuff off, before I jump in the tub. Yeah I am weird! I like washing off everything off my body, specially after a rough day at work.

There face pads, my mom gave them to me, as she found them where she works at. I like these things! They are very good at helping me clean my face after I wash it off with water and soap, or just rinse off my face with water. They help every much, specially to take all dirt and oils off my face. They also have helped me with some of the blemishes on my face.

After my bath and the putting of the lotion, so my body woudl not feel so dry and such, I went for using these feet masks for the very first time! And believe me! They made my feet feel like a babies bottom like! I ever knew feet masks existed until my mom gave me these! I dont know where she got them from or where she found them but I am glad I got to try these for the very frist time! I will try to find these again and definitely use them again! Its crazy to me how many crazy things come out like these feet masks. Unless Im not that person who does self care like that them I am very oblivious in such things! I definitely enjoyed doing this very much

And now for another fun part! While I did the feet mask thing I did this face sheet mask thing! and let me tell you! it made my face feel so soft as well! After I did all that love and care for my self and such! I truly enjoyed doing so. I did not do such a big routine that would take me hours and hours like many girls/women out there. But I tryly enjoyed myself doing all of this for my self pampering and giving my self some love like this! I truly enjoyed my self doing this! very much. 

This lip scrubbie works really well, I got this on a subscriotion box I had gotten a few years back from NoMkaeNoLife. I got many different things on the few boxes I got an this was one of the many tings I got. A lip scrubber. It takestes good even though it is mean to scrub the lips, it tastes really good. It made my lips feel sofer than before as well. I used a lip balm right after I cleansed off the scrubber, to help my lips not get dried and chapped as they often do. I of course needed some drinks while I was doing the self care stuff that I was doing, and the drinks of the day were, coffee, Arizona Energy tea drink, a Ghost Energy drink the Red Berry flavor, and a PowerAide the fruit punch flavor. 

As lunch/dinner came to soon, here I am with a vegetarian ham & cheese sandwich with some spinach and chips with it along with some chicken soup, and some chopped spinach. It was good. While eating I watched some movies. The movies I saw where Daddy's Home 1 & 2 and some YouTube videos. I was going to paint my toes and fingers but I got comfortable watching movies and videos I got a bit lazy on that. I may do it tomorrow, perhaps depending on how I feel tomorrow. Well see what kind of day it will be tomorrow! 

I hope you guys enjoyed this Self-Care Blong as much as I did. I hope you have a wonderful

day, evening or night wherever you are in the world. Just remember you are wonderful, and special! You are worth it and enough! Just the way you are, don't lose your self, stay true to who you truly are.

With Love, 

            Venuz <3