The concept of doing things to help improve your mood and mentality isn’t a new idea, but it being called “self-care” certainly appears to be an advent of the internet age. With the help of its slang sister “treat yoself,” self-care has become a popular hashtag and ideology, promoting everything from taking bubble baths to relieve stress to watching Netflix all day if you really want to. Of course, like any practice, there’s strife between people as to what exactly should be considered self-care.
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New year, new start, blah blah blah. It’s easy to get caught up in the hubub of New Years resolutions, whether you want to or not. Hey, I’m all about New Years resolutions…that are actually practical. That’s why we’ve been writing up a bunch of New Years resolutions for 2016 that are actually doable and aren’t about losing 30 pounds in two weeks or concocting a scheme to get your crush to call you bae by Valentine’s Day.
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If you’ve ever spent ten minutes on Tumblr, you’d be aware of the number of posts dedicated to self-care, the act of treatin’ yourself, especially during times of stress and general mental chaos. Of course, some self-care posts are all about laughs–spending all your money online shopping as self-care, reading fanfiction until four AM on a school night as self-care–but plenty are full of real tips on how to cope after an anxiety attack or when you’re just feeling crummy.
There are so many good tips out there, but I’m going to share nine of them that are easy, helpful, and a little fun, too. Now, go run a bath real quick and start reading. Your day is about to get a little less crappy.
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While there is absolutely nothing wrong with masturbating, there is definitely a time and place for it. There are some places where you probably shouldn’t masturbate, but you know, to each their own. If you do choose to masturbate in public, be careful because it’s definitely illegal in certain spots.
But apparently a lot of people do like to masturbate in public. Some even get a thrill out of it!
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What even is this @oprahmagazine?
Hint: There are no rules.
It’s important to be kind to yourself and pick out things you love about you instead of just hating on yourself.
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I’m writing this post with a super heavy heart because today is my last day working at Gurl.com. I’ve had the most amazing six months with not only the entire Gurl staff, but with you guys, the readers too! I think that everything happens for a reason and this opportunity came to me during a time that I was feeling really down and upset over both personal and professional life; and you guys, and this site helped pull me out of that. This is by far one of the best places to learn about all things that have to do with being a strong, self-loving, and take no BS gurl.
So enough with the mushy stuff because I don’t do well with goodbyes or showing any type of emotion because I’m waaay too cool for that! I wanted to do a quick (and hopefully) funny rendition of what I learned working at Gurl.com...
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I was one of the only black girls in my grade throughout most of elementary school, middle school and high school. I’m going to be honest: That definitely effed me up a little bit. It wasn’t until I was 15 years old that I began to stop thinking I was a different, cooler, more acceptable kind of black girl compared to other black people, people I was rarely around in the first place. It’s so tough to stop internalizing negative stereotypes about yourself and your racial and/or ethnic background, but the rewards of feeling proud of who you are is absolutely worth it.
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