{"id":6969,"date":"2018-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/this-is-what-%c2%91self-care%c2%92-really-means-because-it%c2%92s-not-all-salt-baths-and-chocolate-cake\/"},"modified":"2019-09-29T18:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:49:42","slug":"this-is-what-self-care-really-means-because-its-not-all-salt-baths-and-chocolate-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/this-is-what-self-care-really-means-because-its-not-all-salt-baths-and-chocolate-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What &#8220;Self-Care&#8221; REALLY Means, Because It&#8217;s Not All Salt Baths And Chocolate Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Self-Care Day, a day to focus on yourself. But self-care isn&#8217;t just indulgence &#8211; it&#8217;s often drudgery and hard work. It&#8217;s doing what&#8217;s best for you, even when it&#8217;s hard (forcing yourself on that early morning job, meal prepping instead of going out with friends, etc.).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/brianna-wiest\/2017\/11\/this-is-what-self-care-really-means-because-its-not-all-salt-baths-and-chocolate-cake\/\">This Is What &#8216;Self-Care&#8217; REALLY Means, Because It&#8217;s Not All Salt Baths And Chocolate Cake<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing. It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Self-Care Day, a day to focus on yourself. But self-care isn&#8217;t just indulgence &#8211; it&#8217;s often drudgery and hard work. It&#8217;s doing what&#8217;s best for you, even when it&#8217;s hard (forcing yourself on that early morning job, meal prepping instead of going out with friends, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/29210459545_f8a9ce24a0_o-1.jpg?w=1200&resize=1200%2C800&quality=95&strip=all&crop=1&fit=440%2C330","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,4,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-6969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-wellbeing","9":"tag-wellness","10":"tag-wellnesstrends"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7890,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions\/7890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}