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Authors, How You Treat Yourself Matters: Self-Care
12 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business
The twelfth in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.
“With every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side.”
— Susan Weiss Berry
“How you treat yourself is how you’re inviting the world to treat you.”
— Unknown
“Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, then that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to lift someone else up.”
— Mary Lambert
To support the work you’re doing with her, a coach will almost always inquire early on in your relationship about the subject of self-care. The critical takeaway for coaching yourself is that proper self-care and the prioritization of self-care creates a solid and necessary foundation and background for everything else you’re working on in coaching. This…
