75 days of radical self-care

Cara Szellemes
7 min readJun 17, 2021
Day 1 of my #75selfcare challenge.

The words jumped out at me and I felt my heart race. “What is the truest, most beautiful version of my life I could imagine?”

Why was that question so difficult to answer?

All I could think of at that moment was also on the page in front of me: “Not this.”

Life unravelling

What I’m about to share may be shocking for you to read but I don’t want to sweep this under the proverbial rug.

Too many people are dealing with big things, especially in the wake of Covid19 and too few people feel supported.

Ironically, life for me during Covid19 was pretty great. I had a full-time job. I had savings. I had a great house. Family life was rocking along for the most part and I had some great prospects and high hopes for new business relationships and ideas.

Then a few weeks ago a cascade of big life events knocked me for six. I don’t want to go into detail. What happened is now history but the combined effect of multiple changes sent me spiralling into a world of anxiety and depression like nothing I’ve experienced before.

A new rock bottom

With everything in my life seeming to unravell around me, two Fridays ago I was driving home from dropping my son at work and for a nano-second, I…

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Cara Szellemes

Amazon №1 Bestselling author of Your Brilliant Un-Career, Web2 and Web3 Content Strategist, Founder of 180Selfcare and Your Story Bank.