by Katherine Golub | May 10, 2024 | Radical Self-Care, Trusting Your Intuition
For the past many months, I’ve woken up most mornings with a jolt of sad anxiety in my solar plexus—the area right below the center-bottom of my ribs. This area of the body is where the adrenal glands live and pump out cortisol, the primary hormone in the body’s...
by Katherine Golub | Jul 10, 2023 | Radical Self-Care
These past few weeks, I’ve been looking for a new way to guide clients to prioritize sleep and exercise. For years, I talked about physical self-care through the lens of Minimum Requirements for Self-Care. But because fatphobic dominant culture socializes most of us...
by Katherine Golub | Jun 26, 2023 | Radical Self-Care
I invite you to recall a moment when you felt really burned out. You might feel that way right now, or it may be a time from your past. How do you feel in your body when you think about burnout? Perhaps you feel drained, exhausted, depleted, tired, frustrated, or...
by Katherine Golub | May 22, 2023 | Radical Self-Care
How to start meeting your needs In April, I started a new round of my Changemakers’ Mentorship program, and I challenged participants to commit to a fifteen-ish minute discernment pause each day. Last week, a participant in my mentorship program wrote me this...
by Katherine Golub | May 1, 2023 | Radical Self-Care
One day when my son, Kai, was six, he and his friend were playing with a balloon at a birthday party. Suddenly, Kai’s friend’s three-year-old sister, let’s call her Gabi, ran crying out of the room. A few minutes later, I stood up and went to the bedroom, where she...
by Katherine Golub | Mar 25, 2023 | Radical Self-Care
I invite you to imagine a river that’s run dry. It’s the middle of a severe drought, and nothing is moving. Next, imagine a stagnant, polluted river full of rotting debris. The stench invades your nostrils, and there’s a feeling of sluggishness in the air. Finally,...
