Caring For Your Future Self

Talk about caring for your future self. My name is Rachel Havocost. I'm a writer and mental health advocate. And this is something that I've been practicing a lot in therapy that I wanted to share with you, which is caring for our future selves. So what does this mean? This means doing things today or now that I know are going to make future Rachel really happy. And I'm going to give you some examples and I'm going to talk about why this is so wonderful. So a small example might be doing my dishes at the end of the night for Morning Rachel so that when morning Rachel wakes up, there's no dirty dishes in the sink and it's a clean slate to start the day with.

This could also be something like, let's say I know I have a really busy weekend and I know Monday I'm going to have a lot of work, so maybe on Friday trying to do some of that work and lift some stuff off my plate so that on Monday I'm not as stressed out. So I'm doing these little acts of kindness for future me. And the reason this is so wonderful is because oftentimes when we struggle to have a good relationship with ourselves, we can be self critical, we can be judgmental of ourselves, we can kind of wish that we had done things differently or feel disappointment.

And so by encouraging our present selves to do nice kind acts for our future self, we're actually creating a better relationship to ourselves. It's almost like being in a relationship with someone where we're doing acts of service or acts of kindness for them and that's really a loving thing for us to do. And so doing these things for our future self, it kind of recreates that sentiment and that feeling and it also creates self trust. So the more that I show up for my future self, the more my future self trusts me because it has the experience of, oh, I'm so glad I did this for myself.

And it. And it creates a feeling of self love. So it might seem like really small, but sometimes these super small things that we do to be kind to our future self go a really long way in terms of self love, in terms of self respect and self trust, and they can be really beneficial. If you have any ideas for how to care for your future self, feel free to put them in the comments and I will see you next time.