Karin Brauner

20 Self-Care Habits: Develop Your Strengths. Use Your Resources. Improve Your Life and Relationships. A Practical Guide to Setting Clear Boundaries and Meeting Your Needs. Karin Brauner

We live in a world that teaches us that we should put others before ourselves. We have become experts on meeting other people's needs, but might struggle to meet our own.



Linked to this is the most important need of all: setting clear boundaries.



When we don't have clear boundaries, we allow others to demand our time and attention, when we'd rather be doing something else.



The guilt of saying "no" takes us to a place of resentment and rocky relationships. We resent ourselves and our friend, family member, employer or colleague, for saying "yes" when we really wanted some time to do our own thing.



We forget to find alternatives, an in-between: "no" right now doesn't mean you can't help later.



In this book, I provide the practical tools you will need to develop a habit in the following areassetting boundaries and becoming more assertivehonouring your feelings, listening to what you need and being able to ask for itbalancing time on your own and with otherslead by example when it comes to how you want to be treatedyour relationship with nature and solitudesleep hygiene, exercise, and more



Implementing all of these in your life, through stories to ponder on, reflection points that will help you think, feel, act, and clear outcomes, will help you improve your life and relationships.



Get good at self-care by setting clear boundaries and speaking up to meet your needs.



Start today!



The idea for this book came about from my own self-care journey over 20+ years. I took the time getting to know what works for me and makes me happy, as well as what doesn't work for me and contributed to making me unhappy.



I hope this book will help you find the same within your life and relationships.