WELLBEING → A BETTER YOU Issue 1102 · March 4, 2026

Don’t Forget to Look After Yourself

These foundational self-care concepts are quick and budget friendly

Don’t Forget to Look After Yourself
Don’t Forget to Look After Yourself
Abby Delouya

Many of us have now entered the Whirlwind Zone with our Pesach preparation. Making lists, planning, shopping, cleaning, and cooking is physically and mentally demanding. Family expectations and dynamics can impact our emotional resilience and most of us make it to the finish line exhausted.

Even with the little sleep and enormous bills, there is one nonnegotiable in this: YOU. Attend to yourself, both physically and emotionally. Yet when time is tight and money is tighter, self-care can start to feel like a luxury item, something you’ll get to “later,” after the bills are paid and everything on your to-do list is done.

But real self-care, the kind that actually sustains you, doesn’t need to be expensive or time-consuming. It can be incorporated into real life. Taking care of yourself isn’t about escaping your responsibilities; it’s about enhancing your ability to meet them.

These foundational self-care concepts are quick and budget friendly:

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