Self-care is a BIG player in our coping skills. Taking personal responsibility for your own self-care is one skill that can not be avoided. It is actually no one else’s responsibility. YOU are the expert on YOU. Learning to take good care of your mental health is something that will change your life and your relationship with yourself.
Here are a few ideas for your self-care:
Use your coping skills
Figure out what you are doing that is making your life harder (ie. Over worry, drinking too much, isolating, etc.) And then stop doing them.
Notice how social media makes you feel and if it drains you give yourself a break from it.
Reframe your story. Tell your story in a new way
Assemble a team of helpers
Let go of expectations
Say “no” when you mean “no”
Have your hormones checked
Take a walk
Light a candle, run a bath, sip a hot drink, find something beautiful to look at, relax the mind, use essential oils.
Connect with others. Join or start a club, go to lunch with a friend, do anything you can to start connecting with others.
Change your routine. Walk a new way, go to another coffee shop, order something new, learn something new.
Declutter something in your life. Donate or throw away 5 things that you no longer use each week.
Create a new motto “Life doesn’t have to be easier to be good.”
Smile more. Smiling will bring more smiles into your life and will fool the body to believe it is not sad.
Find things you are grateful for
Let go of small things quickly.
Refuse to ruminate on negative thoughts and purposely change your thoughts in anyway you can
Accept your anxiety or any other feeling you are having. Anxiety is part of transitions, learn you can be good enough at things and not perfect.
Meditate
All of these suggestions are free but are all part of self-care. Become good at taking good care of yourself. Treat yourself as if you are someone you care for deeply.
Live well.
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