Vanessa's 30 Day Self Care Challenge

Hello everyone!
If you follow me on my youtube channel (CLICK HERE) or any of my social media platforms you guys would know that I am participating in a 30 Day Self-care Challenge. As promised in the previous episodes, here is the dedicated blog post for the challenge.

What is the 30 Day Self Care Challenge?

A challenge wherein for the next 30 days I do a task solely and completely dedicated to self-care and self-love. Sounds easy? Surprisingly it's actually not. Within days of the challenge you soon realise how much of your day you actually dedicate to yourself.

Why am I doing this challenge?

It's hard not to answer this question without getting raw. To be honest the last year I had dedicated myself entirely on trying to be the picture perfect mother. I threw all my hobbies and things I was passionate about aside to collect dust so that I could dedicate myself into trying to be a person whom others kept telling me I should be. What happens when you throw your passions to the side and you neglect yourself? Low self-esteem, autopilot, negativity and bitterness towards everyone and everything. Then an incident happened, an incident that made me realise:

1. You can never get a bitter persons approval, nor do you need it.
2. I was making myself completely miserable in hopes to make other people happy. 
3. This wasn't me.

So I broke away. As angry as I could be at the few people who made me feel worthless and like I was not enough, I have to thank them, without them I wouldn't have realised how important it is to put myself first and to just be myself. And that's just it, put myself first and to just be myself, loud and proud. That's why I'm doing this challenge, to rediscover who I am, to love and nurture myself again, to be happy and live by the terms that I want to live by. As I progress in this challenge I am learning so much more about who I am and I am discovering more reasons as to why doing this challenge is good for me. 

Why should you do this challenge?

You don't have to, but so far I wouldn't say no to it. You don't have to do it identically to how my list is set out. I made my list customised to my lifestyle and what I know I could accomplish (I couldn't afford a holiday to a dream destination in the next 30 days and there are only two days a week where I don't have any children for an entire 6 hour gap), so those are things to be considered, but take this list and many other self-care challenge lists as reference and create your own. 

EPISODE ONE

Vanessa's 30 Day Self-Care Challenge

Day 01: Go for a peaceful walk alone - no distractions

Day 02: Declutter a room or a closet

Day 03: Compliment a stranger

Day 04: Make a list of your goals and dreams

Day 05: Pamper yourself - paint your nails, do a hair and face mask.

Day 06: Buy yourself a bouquet of flowers.

Day 07: Write a heartfelt letter to yourself - to be opened after the 30 days.

Day 08: Create a vision board

Day 09: Take yourself out on a solo date

Day 10: Tell THREE people a heartfelt message of how much you appreciate them.

Day 11: Catch up with an old friend.

Day 12: Design yourself a morning and night routine - follow it.

Day 13: Write FIVE things you love about yourself.

Day 14: Make a list of all your accomplishments.

Day 15: Learn something new

Day 16: Spend time in nature (picnic, paint, draw, read, hike, etc)

Day 17: Mindful eating, cook yourself a new healthy recipe.

Day 18: Create a bucket list

Day 19: Organise phone, hard drives, email and desktop.

Day 20: Go to sleep with the sound of a deep sleep meditation. 

Day 21: Cut off social media for the entire day.

Day 22: Practise yoga.

Day 23: Complete one thing on your bucket list.

Day 24: Compile and listen to a happy playlist.

Day 25: No complaining today.

Day 26: Write down FIVE things that make you happy. Envision those things and smile at the world. 

Day 27: Plan your dream holiday.

Day 28: Work out a budget for your dream holiday.

Day 29: Read a self-development book.

Day 30: Write what you have learnt about yourself throughout this challenge. Open and read the letter you wrote on day 07. 

Let me know if you try this challenge out and anything you've added to the list. I would love to get some ideas. 

Thanks so much for reading today's blog post. I hope it has spoken to you in many ways and allows you to feel lighter. 

Take care!

xx/Vanessa