The spontaneous, creativity-loving, self-celebrating, goddess-minded side of you shouts, “There’s no such thing as the wrong time to treat myself!”

The practical, detail-oriented, planner in you interjects, “…But might there be a right time? There’s gotta be some strategy involved here…”

Both sides of you have valid points, and I’m here to provide answers.

You think you must collect reasons for why you deserve an experience that is only for you.

And the list better be a long one before you’ve earned anything from the Wishlist!

The list of reasons you haven’t earned the Wishlist may look a bit like this…

Trusting your own judgment and intuition is something that should come so very naturally; and yet it is a muscle that has all but atrophied with every “be nice”, “be quiet”, “be good” that inundated you since you were a little girl.

The reason we don’t love those little superficial parts of ourselves is because we expect them to look a different way; a way that we’ve been told they are “supposed” to look based off of Cosmopolitan covers and Snapchat filters. We assume that if those body parts did look different, we could love them.

While comfort zones are famous for being cozy, there’s not much room for growth inside that small, safe box. And yet you stay, because the pressure to be perfect outside of that box is too overwhelming.

“It was more than just taking a pretty photo. It had a mood, it had an emotion, it had a depth to it. It just blew me away. It put me on this high that I was like, I hope this never goes away!”

How can you give yourself more of what you need when you don’t know what you need?

Before you can dive into taking care of yourself with the same committed, passionate, generous energy you bring to all other aspects of your life, it’s time to get self aware.