"Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands," Elle Woods, Legally Blonde. It's true that exercise is a powerful mood booster. And it's also true that we all need some mood-boosting from time to time.

One look around any media platform and you will find mental health as a focal point. There are YouTube and Instagram accounts dedicated to yoga, wellness juices that boost the mood, face goop, and manifesting some of that good shit into your life. Some of it is helpful…and some of it screams like a cash grab. BGF cares about your mental wellbeing, but in the way that we understand that feeling stressed, overwhelmed, anxiety driven are all mental states that are not allowing you to be the best you. And that is a barrier to our mission where we want you to invest in yourself. So let’s take a moment to explore self-care and what that means to the BGF and what it should be to you.

Technology has allowed us to have access to so much of the world. It has also allowed others to have access to us. Maybe too much access. As we struggle to reconnect with good friends and break up with bad friends, we find there are the people in between that may are in your life where you still want to set up limits to create a healthy relationship. These limits are not walls, they are boundaries and we aren’t really taught how to construct them.

A lot of shit has happened in a short amount of time. It’s a lot to process. If the past year and a half hasn’t affected you, I’d like to know what magical beans you’re huffing. But if you’re like us the rest of us, our mental and physical health has seen better days. Self-care and self-love look different to everyone, but it doesn’t change the importance of staying on top of it, especially now.