Why Making Ourselves a Priority Is Important

Quite often, we tend to place the needs of others before our own. It has been part of our human nature to run around taking care of everyone else — our children, the elderly, the sick, and all other people we care about. Although it is fundamentally a good thing to do, it can be a problem when we give too much to others that we leave nothing for ourselves.

To drive home my point, self-care is not selfishness. It does not mean focusing only on our best interest or putting ourselves first in everything. Neither does it make us self-centered when we put…