Monday's Opening Thought: January 3, 2022

This week’s opening thought: I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions. Never really have been. With that said, I believe that if you are going to resolve to do something over a span of 365 days that it should not be a toxic practice that could leave you feeling worse about yourself on day 30 than you did on day 1.

If you’re the resolution type, I implore you to look beyond the confines of 365 days and resolve to take care of yourself mentally, emotionally, and physically every day of the rest of your life with as little toxicity and societal pressure as possible. Make healthy life choices for yourself, societal and familial pressure be damned.

Use the next 365 days to start a lifetime of caring about yourself, because for many of us there will hopefully be life beyond December 31, 2022.