Creative Self Care with Crystal McLain

Today we're going to learn how to break through discomfort and finally live a healthy life. Over the years I’ve been collecting small instruments; a ukulele, bangolele, and my grandfather’s harmonica. For most of my life I’ve wanted to be musical, but I’ve never really invested much time towards learning. But in my fantasy world, one of my happy places is sitting in the sun, casually playing music and singing with friends. Doesn’t that sound nice? But here’s the thing, in order to do any of this (minus the sun bathing part), I have to LEARN HOW.  And learning is...

I’m really excited to share the most effective self-care on the market….! Are you ready…? Wait for it…. Waaaaait forrrrrr iiiiiiit….. … Haha, just kidding. You can’t buy self-care. The most effective self-care comes from that beautiful brain of yours. That brain that’s full of so much powerful consciousness, it’d freak you out if you knew its full potential.  Anyway, self-care isn’t something you just add to your cart and expect UPS to deliver a week later, it’s something you do. You can buy tools to use in your self-care practices, but self-care is the ACTION one takes to maintain whole...

If I could go back to my 20 year old self, I’d tell her three truths about self-care.  I misplaced so much of my energy when it came to my wellness. I had a ridiculous idea in my head about what “healthy” looked like. I set unrealistic goals, put loads of pressure on myself, and beat myself up when I found myself in the same old mess I started in. The backfire from this was to avoid any sort of challenging self-care at all, and dove head-first into lots of unhealthily coping devices that made me  temporarily feel "good". But...

As I’m forging through this existence of mine, I’m building the most epic and sustainable self-care practices of my life, and I’m realizing one of the reasons this is possible is because I’ve decided to become a bit of a rebel.  I’ve been a rebel in training for nearly half my life. I’ve always kind of done things my own way, and found challenging the “rules” invigorating. When I was a teenager I’d confront the cops when they tried throwing us out of empty parking lots. I interrogated history teachers when their “facts” that didn’t make sense to me. I...

When we’re working towards a wellness goal sometimes we don’t always notice our progress. Transformation can take time. It can be a slow drip that painstakingly fills the proverbial bucket. And honestly we’re usually so busy being in our daily lives, that sometimes we forget to take notice of the bucket we’re trying to fill. But still, all of those tiny efforts quietly add up, until one day you notice your feet getting wet.  I had a moment the other day when I noticed the volume of my efforts. My tiny drops had filled my bucket, overflowed, and spilled around...