Girl, Wash Your Face

Girl, Wash Your Face inspires women to take their lives into their own hands and make their dreams happen, no matter how discouraged they may feel at the moment.

Imagine you have a friend named Sarah. Every time you have plans to do something with Sarah, she cancels on you last second. And instead of having understandable reasons as to why she cancels, she has poor excuses like she had to watch another episode of a Netflix show. She says she’s going to start budgeting and saving her money, but the next day you watch her pay $200 on a new pair of shoes she doesn’t need.

You’re probably thinking, “And why am I friends with Sarah?” Sure, this friendship probably wouldn’t last long. But what Hollis is trying to point out is that we are treating ourselves in this exact same way when we break promises to ourselves. It might not seem like a big deal to go ahead and eat a pastry even though we said we’d quit sugar.

But it is a big deal because you are letting yourself down every time you don’t follow through with a promise to yourself.

Hollis encourages you to try to make a habit of keeping promises to yourself. In order to make this doable, keep it realistic. If you want to run a marathon, start out smaller and increase your distance every few weeks until you can build the endurance you need. The important thing is to make sure that your goals are realistic enough that you can follow through every time. If you keep it up, eventually, you will re-train your mind to keep promises. You’ll accomplish much more and be able to set higher expectations as you learn.

Mothers today think that chaos is a sign of their failure. But in reality, whether you’re a mom with a job or even just a stay-at-home parent, chaos is just part of the job. Many of us feel despair when things go wrong. Hollis teaches while you can’t control everything, the one thing you can control is yourself. So you may as well embrace the chaos. Instead of swimming against the current, go with it. Her first tip for how to do this is to learn to laugh at the chaos. When life throws you curveballs, because it will, the best way to get through it with sanity is to not take things too seriously. Laughter is actually a great form of stress relief, and good for your health too. Hollis explains the more ridiculous the situation is the more you will be able to laugh about it later. Her second tip is to learn to accept help. She tells…