Start Here: Your You-Shaped Self-Care

From the Sunday Self-Care Chronicles | 10/26/25

This week’s Sunday Self-Care Chronicles kicks off a special three-part “Best Of” series: Practical Tools, Timeless Lessons, and Real-World Relief for Breast Cancer Self-Care.

This first installment revisits the foundations of self-care after breast cancer—what “new normal” really means and how to start shaping it for yourself. It’s all about putting the self back in self-care and reconnecting with your body, your needs, and your pace.

This week’s issue touches on:
✨ Redefining “normal” after treatment
✨ The real work of self-care: awareness → agency
✨ Two free tools to help you reconnect—an audio + a guide

Read the full email below - and if something speaks to you please feel free to comment, share, or reach out!

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Hello, gorgeous!

This week I promised you some actionable and practical self-care ideas and tools. Well, one email turned into three and now I'm so excited to share the first of The Sunday Self-Care Chronicles — “Best Of” Series: Practical Tools, Timeless Lessons, and Real-World Relief for Breast Cancer Self-Care

Think of it like a highlight reel of the tools and ideas that have helped the most people over the years—including me. These are the resources I still come back to myself whenever I need to reset or refocus.

We’re kicking things off with the most important foundation of all—understanding what “normal” means now, and how to start shaping it for yourself.

Let’s be real: a “new normal” isn’t something anyone hands you when treatment ends.

Your new normal isn’t delivered—it’s designed.

And while that might sound daunting, I think it’s actually freeing—because it means you get to decide what life looks and feels like from here.

Where Real Self-Care Begins

Finding your new normal after breast cancer isn’t about snapping back into who you were—it’s about learning how to live well in the body and life you have now.

That’s the foundation of real, relevant self-care and it starts with redefining what normal even means to you.

For many of us, that begins with unlearning what we’ve been told self-care should look like. 

It’s not about perfection, productivity, or performing wellness for anyone else’s approval. 

It’s about putting your SELF back at the center of your own care: your needs, your pace, your capacity, your boundaries.

And when you approach recovery that way, things begin to shift.

• You stop asking, “How do I get back to how I was?” and start asking, “What helps me feel grounded today?”

• You stop waiting for your energy, confidence, or comfort to “return” and instead start building them, piece by piece.

• You stop measuring success by how much you can do, and start noticing how well you can listen—to your body, to your needs, and to your intuition.

 That’s the real work of self-care after breast cancer: turning awareness into agency.

 Best of the Blog: Foundations of Self-Care

 If this week’s theme hits home, you’ll love going deeper with these reader favorites:

→ What Does It Take to Get to “New Normal”? — Why your “new normal” isn’t one-size-fits-all (and how to design your own).
→ When Self-Care Meets Strategy — My 4-step method to create a self-care plan that fits your life.
→ The Thing Missing from Your Self-Care Is Probably Your SELF — How to bring yourself back to the center of your healing.

 Note: Some tools or links mentioned in older posts may no longer be available, but the ideas still hold true. For updated or personalized recommendations, you can always book an Ask Amy Consult.

Ready to begin?

Here are two simple tools to help you reconnect with yourself right now:

🎧 Meet Your Inner Nurturer — a short guided audio to help you find that steady, compassionate voice within.
📘 Self-Assessment Guide — a practical PDF to identify what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus next.

Take what you need, skip what you don’t, and remember—this is your version of normal, built one conscious choice at a time.

Next week, we’ll move into Part 2: Your Survivorship, Your Playbook—a closer look at what self-care looks like at every stage, from diagnosis to long-term survivorship and beyond.

I'm so, so, so happy to be in this with you…always.

ps. I’d love to know what “new normal” means to you right now—hit reply and tell me.

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