Parenting is hard — ask anyone with a kid. Mostly, because from the second they are born, until the moment they go to school, you'll never again have a second to yourself. Your days of self-indulgence are over and you will never again know what it's like to lie in a warm bath with a glass of wine and a face mask without a little fist pounding at the door asking when you're coming out. Your kids own you now, and self-care is not in their vocabulary. These parents tweeting about what self-care looks like once the children come along are a stark reality check for any expectant parents out there who think they might be any different!
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Recipes for Self Love is the Instagram page of artist Alison Rachel boasting over 500k followers. It contains her beautiful, empowering and inclusive images of women, featuring simple but powerful statements of how to take care of yourself. The messages are themed around "feminism, self-care, boundaries, intersectionality, sexuality, anxiety, ritual, beauty, individuality, and self-expression", and are full of encouragement for all you queens out there. We hope you find these incredible images as inspiring as we do!
