In a busy modern world, full of responsibilities and deadlines, it can be difficult to carve out time to dedicate to personal self-care. Yet, with a new season emerging into a time of busier schedules and endless deadlines, now’s the perfect time to set aside distractions and devote much-needed time to self-reflection, and ultimately, self-care. Making now the perfect time to make your self-care dreams a reality. Here are five low-impact, budget-friendly ways to incorporate some much-deserved pampering into your schedule this spring.
Treat Yourself To Affordable Luxury
For many, the extent of indulgence our everyday lives afford us can be found within the toiletry section of our local supermarkets chains. From shampoo to conditioner, and even hair deep-treatments these bottles seem to offer everyday consumers the height of affordable luxury. But what about affordable natural alternatives?
As outer beauty is a reflection of inner health, a healthy, well-nourished body will shine with the simplest of ingredients-natural alternatives to conventional beauty products that work great. While a healthy diet and a good exercise plan can aid us all along the great journey that is life, as can a few well-selected natural alternatives. Products that are also less expensive, too.
Some favorites in my household are essential oils, such as rosemary, orange, and sage clary oils or natural sodium, sea salt, pink Himalayan salt, and Epsom salt. Even the use of naturally-derived oils including argon oil, coconut oil, and castor oils.
One product I love to keep on-hand each Springtime is an DIY bath blend:
- 4 Cups Pink Himalayan Pink Salt
- 1 Cup Epsom Salts
- 40-60 Drops of Lavendar Essential Oil
- 4-6 Tablespoons Dried Rosemary
I love adding the combined salts to a jar, keeping the jar in a dry, cool place bath-side. Then, when ready to use, add 1/2 cup salt blend and essential oils directly to water, when running a bath. The oils add affordable health, and luxury, to both my bath, and bathroom area. While adding much-needed peace and tranquility to my bathtime experiences. From bath salts to bath bubbles, moisturizing our skin and adding a little bit of luxury to your body can benefit our emotional health and overall well-being, too.
Or for schedules more complex in nature, booking yourself a beauty treatment may provide more self-care for your life. These days, a visit to an affordable, professional, and established beauty salon, can be a spiritual experience.
Pamper Yourself With A New Outlook
In a world riddled with unending pressures, your body, and mind, need self-care. This includes looking after your emotions. After all, everyday living can be an emotional experience, no matter if it happens at work or home. Depending on the severity of the incident, you could end up feeling depressed and anxious. This is why you’ll need to look after the emotions you’re feeling in including your emotions in various ways, including:
- Working out
- Listening to podcasts
- Cultivating cooking skills
- Creating personal mantras
- Getting help from professionals
- Being patient with your emotions
- Creating nurturing personal identities
- Enjoying time in self-affirming activities
- Reading comforting books, ebooks, and magazines
With a plethora of free and affordable self-affirming activities to choose from, there are plenty of budget-friendly means to leave you feeling relaxed, confident, and ready to achieve your greatest levels of personal growth and success this season.
Indulge Your Appetite
If you are somebody ready to boost your health and well-being, updating your menu at home is a great place to start. Afterall, there’s fewer better ways to tone your frame than a well-directed dive into Gastroenterology. But, thankfully, what makes us healthy can make us happy, too.
While there are plenty of natural and home remedies to choose from to boost your health or well-being, I believe that bettering our bodies begins with comforting our souls, too. As any Francophile will tell you, this, for me, and others, begins with a well-stocked pantry and on-hand simple bamboo cutting boards, to make Charcuterie boards at home.
A popular trend that has gained widespread popularity in the past few years due to both its instant visual appeal and elevated presentation, perfect for your next night-in. Create pairing with simplicity in mind, inclduing budget-friendly flavors choices and, perhaps, yes, budget-friendly culinary trends (Pinterest, anyone?). There’s endless ways to create make-ahead Charcuterie boards on a budget this springtime at home-the possibilities are endless!
This Francophile enjoys making trays with vegan-friendly meats and cheeses, Dijon mustard, and Festive Chickpeas. Made with all-natural and healthy ingredients, containing no artificial flavors or preservatives, and available in salted, ranch, unsalted, and sour-cream flavors, they provide a much-needed, flavor-packed crunch to all Charcuterie boards at home. The perfect pairing for cured meats, chutneys, salad-toppers, and vegan or conventional cheeses-be sure to check out their festive snack ideas on Instagram and Facebook, too!
Take Yourself For A Walk In Nature
There is nothing’s few things more rejuvenating than a brisk walk in the great outdoors. Making walking a fantastic indulgence that will cost you little more than time and provide you with a myriad of physical and emotional benefits. Walking is incredibly beneficial for several reasons, including the following:
- An effective way to burn calories and aid healthy weight loss
- Improve your levels of creative thinking
- A natural way to improve your levels of focus and concentration
- Benefits your mental health
- Reduces stiffness and pain in joints and muscles
- Lowering levels of sugar in the blood to improve circulation
Walking, whether barefoot, on grass, or even sand, has been found to have a calming effect on the mind. It’s a grounding experience, connecting you with the earth and helping to balance your energies-sure to soothe your worries away.
Delight In Retail Therapy
In the modern world where online internet shopping is becoming ever-increasingly more prevalent, there really is nothing like visiting your local shopping center or department store and indulging in some therapeutic, unless its free retail therapy.
Unlike your usual shopping trips, relax and enjoy the experience of shopping for the best of what the internet has to offer for free. From coursework to gaming, you can affordably indulge in buying treats and surprises for yourself online.
Several great examples are:
- Read Books
- Sightseeing
- Enjoying Films
- Take-In A Concert
- Relaxing Self-Care
- Attending an Art Exhibit
- Engage With Your Peers
- Become Versed In A Foreign Language
- Take A Course From An Ivy League School
With freebies, you can not only save a lot of money throughout the year but aid your own self-care, too. Using the promotions above, you can relax, inspire, and share-and often earn free stuff, too.
A life well led can be chock-full of traumatizing experiences, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t also the occasional budget-friendly cure for the emotional toll it can have. Looking after your emotions, getting enough rest, and seeing an attorney (joke, kind of) are all notable areas to look after. They’ll get you on the road to recovery much better than you’d think-one freebie at a time.
Friends, how do you take care of your own self-care at home? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
