Recently, I was cleaning out some boxes in my office and came across some cards I had created in 2014. They were one of my very first attempts at implementing and tracking a self-care routine.

They have about six million things on them that I wanted to track. They obviously took me a while to format and print. It looks like I used less than ten of them.

If you’ve been around a while, you know that in 2013 I burned out hard, and that burnout manifested itself in a nearly fatal illness. When I was fully recovered and started working to avoid a repeat of anything like that ever again, my Google searches led to this totally foreign concept of self-care.