Self-care; it’s where you look after yourself and meet the needs and wants that you have. When it comes to well-being, self-care is important. It encourages feelings of belonging, improves self-worth, and stress. As well as improving other aspects of your mental and physical health.
Following through with self-care can be difficult and knowing how to make self-care stick can be a challenge. Here are some tips that can help you follow through with self-care;
Setting reminders; Having a physical reminder as to when you do self-care helps you to keep your word. It allows you to keep track of your responsibilities whilst making sure that you take time for yourself.
Schedule; Creating a schedule for when you fit in self-care can help you make the time for it. It allows you to have self-care at the forefront of your mind and overtime; it’ll start becoming second nature to you.
Support; Involving other people in doing self-care activities allows you to hold each other accountable. It allows everyone to prop each other up, to encourage each other and to allow yourself to have fun with others whilst you do it.
Rewards; Giving yourself rewards can motivate you, boost your mood and increase dopamine levels. The increase in dopamine levels is linked to happiness, memory retention, and can reinforce positive behaviors. Overall, it allows you to feel good about yourself.
Self-care is all about finding out what works for you and putting things in place to help yourself in the long run, not just in the short term. It’s about making sure that it is manageable to make it more sustainable for you going forward. It’s about starting off small and then building on that to make it stick and for self-care to not fall off your priority list.