To start off the New Year I’ve written up a journal for self-care day challenge. Many people make New Year resolutions in January but I’m asking you not to. Instead, I’m asking you to get to know you better. So for the next 32 days, I’d like you to ask yourself the following questions in… Read More No New Year Resolutions Just Yet! (Self-Care Final Section)
This is the last post in the self-soothing series. I have one last post I will put out next week in the overall self-care series. It will be a series of questions to ask yourself, when you get some quiet time, over the holidays. It may help you set some new goals for 2017 or… Read More Building Up New Habits (Self Soothing) Using the Senses Part 6 Other Suggestions
We can tend to centre family life around celebrations that involve food. Some of our best and worst memories can be linked to those celebrations. We can at times also turn to food for comfort. If that is the case you may want to skip this week’s suggestions but you could also adopt some new… Read More Building Good Habits (Self Soothing) Using the Senses Part 4 Taste
Continuing on from last week’s post –Building Up New Habits (Self soothing) using the senses Part 1 Vision – we move on to incorporating hearing as part of our self-care routine. Healthy self-soothing/habits are an important part of any human’s self-care routine and incorporating all the senses is vital to stimulate all our mind, body and… Read More Building Up New Habits (Self Soothing) Using The Senses: Part 2 Hearing
Last week I talked about getting back to the basics of self-care. I mentioned that I would post a series of helpful techniques you could try to use. So to kick off a series of posts about swapping bad habits for some good (self-soothing techniques) here are a few based on vision. You could try… Read More Building Up New Habits (Self soothing) using the senses Part 1 Vision
Why start with the basics of self-care? When I entered the rooms of Al-anon for the first time someone mentioned looking after me. I, as a co-dependent thought they were mad. As you can imagine, like all good co-dependents that came before and after me, I always put myself last. I’d take care of my… Read More Self care: The Basics
I found this great printable on http://www.plantlovegrow.com/vision–self-knowledge.html that helps you explore your values. Why should I do that you ask? Well, sometimes we need to go back to basics and discover who we really are. We need to get to our core values to see are we being really true to ourselves or have we lost our… Read More Getting to know your values and bring it back to centre.
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