The hard mirror of caregiving

Saipanhayden
5 min readSep 14, 2021
Photo by Joice Kelly on Unsplash

There is a lot I can get away with by just living out the fast pace of life. I can easily lose self-reflection between dinner and clean-up. Self- care? (the hard kind, not the escape into a chocolate bar and Netflix kind) I left self-care in the laundry bin. I rush around from task to task just thinking about what the next thing to do is and when I can go to bed. In other words, I am too caught up in surviving to question how I am…

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Saipanhayden

I am an assistant principal at a small middle school. I care deeply about people and I like to find solutions if I can. Life is hard. Let's be kind