Self-Care Isn't Selfish - ebook

You’re leading a team. You’re raising a teenager. And somewhere in the middle of everyone else’s needs… you’ve disappeared. If you’re struggling to prioritise yourself, you’re not alone. Self-Care Isn’t Selfish provides practical tips on reducing conflict, gaining a feeling of control and the benefits of reflective practice.

Drawing on more than 20 years of coaching leaders and supporting parents, Ruth Taylor offers a refreshingly simple approach to self-care that does not include a healthier diet or more sleep. This is self-care for real life: the kind that helps you keep your cool in difficult conversations, when your teenager is stroppy and lead with clarity even when your own tank is running low.

Ruth writes from lived experience. Moving across the world with toddlers, navigating numerous redundancies, parenting teens, surviving a pandemic, and losing her mother to breast cancer. Her resilience is not theoretical; it’s earned. And it’s the foundation of the tools she now teaches thousands of professional parents.

Inside this book, you’ll learn how to:

• Choose your role in moments of conflict so you stop reacting and start acting as the leader you want to be

• Control what you can (and release what you can’t) at work and at home

• Use reflection to sift, sort, and solve the problems that drain your energy

• Set boundaries without guilt

• Stay calm when emotions run high — whether in the boardroom or the kitchen

• Reduce burnout by understanding the emotional load you’re carrying

• Reclaim your sense of self in the middle of everyone else’s demands

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Whether you’re managing a team, raising a teenager, or doing both at once, this book gives you the clarity, confidence, and practical tools to show up as the person you want to be — without burning out in the process.

Self-care isn’t selfish. It’s the leadership skill no one taught you… until now.