Tough Love Self-Care Challenge - Step Two

Mar 03, 2025

🎉 Yay for getting through Step One!
Whether you completed every single exercise or just made your bed a few times, I’m proud of you. And more importantly—you are worth continuing on.

Ready? Let’s do it.

This step is all about the Master List.

A Master List is a living document—one that grows and shifts with you. It’s not something you’ll ever "finish," and that’s the beauty of it. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by an endless to-do list, we embrace the perpetuity.

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