Welcome to the first Self-Care Sunday Series for Today's Parent!

This series is intended to support you throughout February?the month dedicated to cheesy romantic gestures, heart-shaped chocolate, and lots of red?by offering practices to help cultivate a deeper love: self-love.

Through these love letters from me to you each week, you will find a space where I will delve into a theme and provide ideas, helpful practices, and resources to support you. Together, we will build a greater sense of self-love in all the areas that, when working in harmony together, make us feel more whole: body, mind, heart, and spirit. Finding that sense of love and care from within makes it more possible to care for others without depleting our precious energy.
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Today, we are talking all about The Body. 

For women and mothers in particular, this idea of the body is a loaded topic. On one hand, for some of us, our bodies have carried our children into this world. Without our bodies, we wouldn't have our babies, and yet, as a natural result of carrying our children, we don't always love the way these bodies look and feel. On the other hand, for some of us, it is our bodies that have made it difficult or impossible to fulfill that dream of becoming a parent, which has caused us pain, depression, and even trauma.

And then there is the time before becoming a parent when our bodies were our own. They were the vesse...