Hello everyone! Happy Friday :)

This week I will be writing something a bit different.
I have been really sick for almost a week now but didn't want to skip a Friday as this series is something I really enjoy writing.
So today I decided to share a little bit of the behind-the-scenes and maybe get a discussion about self-care started.

P.S. cover picture features my cat Shion, who is a champ at relaxing

Why Funny Friday?

I have been on DEV for a couple of years and I love this place.
One day I was a bit too stressed and I decided to deal with it with humor and started playing around with dev jokes.
It was a Friday, and I wrote a post about that. The post did well to I decided to keep doing it

Where do the ideas come from?

Sometimes from discussions I see on dev communities, or some interesting thing I see here on DEV.
And sometimes I honestly ask AI for ideas. AI is not very funny, but it gives me some inspiration.
English is not my first language (I am Brazilian) so I also use AI to review the posts for me, so it is really helpful.

What does it have to do with self-care?

Funny Friday started out with me trying to make fun of the fact that some of us code too much, and with the goal of aliviate my stress, and hopefully in the process help other to laugh a bit.
And to me, laugh is one of the best ways to take care of myself.

Have you been taking care of yourself?

So here is the discussion I want to start.
As I mentioned, this week I am sick, and I have been feeling bad about not working as much as usual. I worry that I am not delivering what I should and am afraid it would impact my employer's opinion of me.
While this is normal, it is not true, it is just my had making me worry for nothing. I am writing this to help myself overcome these silly ideas and understand that it is OK to take time to myself when needed, and I hope you know that too.

So, are you taking care of yourself?

What is self-care to you?

Thank you soo much for reading this, I really appreciate you.
And I am curious to know what self-care is to you?

Let me know on the comments.

Hugs from Pachi 🥰💖🥑