In her best-selling book, “Real Self-Care”, Pooja Lakschmin, a psychiatrist, asks us to consider what self-care really is. In an age of myriad wellness products and services it can feel overwhelming to know what really makes a difference and what doesn’t.

Lakshmin makes the case the self-care isn’t actually any one of those services or products. “Self-care is an inside job,” she says. Meaning that what makes any particular self-care practice or method effective is how we’re approaching it internally.

In her book, Lakshmin differentiates between methods and principles. We have thousands of wonderful self-care methods, but we need solid principles to help guide us in choosing the methods we need. When we know what our core values are, have boundaries in place to protect those values and can speak kindly and compassionately to ourselves about our needs, we’re doing the real work of self-care. 

My hope is that My Inner Harbour will help members lay the foundation of true self-care. Our space is set up to help members gain insight into their own core values, explore setting boundaries and practice speaking compassionately to themselves.