What is self-care to you? Self-care is not just eating a nice healthy meal and create a 6-pack at the gym. It is the action you take to meet all your physical, mental, spiritual, or emotional needs. We tend to put ourselves last, at the very bottom of our priority list because when we stop doing something in order to take care of our needs; people or even yourself think of it as laziness and feel guilty about it. Well, I hate to break the news to you; if you don’t take care of yourself, you won’t be there to help others. Therefore, make an effort to put yourself first without feeling guilty. In this post, I will share 15 self-care ideas to kickstart a healthy lifestyle.
- Take a leisurely walk without a goal.
- Finish this sentence: “I love myself because I ______________.” Do this once per day, with a new ending each time.
- Take a mental health day—and feel not an ounce of guilt about it.
- Buy a bouquet of fresh flowers.
- Get in the habit of making your first positive thought for the day: “I am ready for today.” “Today is a new opportunity.” “I will do something I am proud of today.”
- Don’t wait until this pandemic is all over. Go treat yourself. Walk around the fancy grocery store without a list while taking healthy precautions of course. Buy some stuff just for fun. (Don’t spend money you don’t have though! that will stress you more).
- Go to a comedy club. Laugh till it hurts
- Cook yourself a fancy meal for no other reason. You just deserve a fancy meal.
- Sing! Turn up your favorite sing-along tunes.
- Go for a drive with your music on. No destination required.
- Allow yourself to sleep in a couple of extra hours this weekend; errands and chores can wait! Your family will survive. Stop putting yourself last for a moment
- Paying it forward , buy lunch for the next person behind you in line or anything you can do to put a smile on the next person ‘s face.
- Write positive affirmations or inspirational quotes on small pieces of paper, then go to a bookstore and hide them in random books for strangers to find.
- I struggle with this one myself but if you need help, ask for it. It sounds simple, but trying to handle everything without help causes more stress.
- Create a vision board. Vision boards are great for manifesting whatever you desire. Visualize your lifestyle, what you want, and what it takes to get there while cultivating a healthy routine for to reach your goal.
Self-care, is anything that you can prevent on becoming worts, such as: your stress level, a back discomfort or depression. So, do it often and kickstart a healthy habit.
This life planner helps me reflect on my monthly self care and I absolutely love it. Get it here
I love the idea of a positive thought for the day. I start my day by writing in a prompted gratitude journal. I love it because it really helps me focus on something good for the day.
This is such a great list! I love driving and riding to whatever music I want to play!
Music heals everything
Amazing tips!!! My new year resolution, self-care before anything else. Thanks for sharing.
Chad
http://www.mosaicslab.com
Yesss. Great resolution
Sometimes the only way that I can get out of my head is to go on a walk, we live down a long dirt road and surrounded by woods. It’s so peaceful and sometimes that’s what I do to calm down my mind.
Love all these ideas. I find that my hobbies and DIY projects have really helped me to develop a self love lifestyle. Good read.
Mine is painting, listening to music and getting a message
Going on a drive with the music playing is one of the most therapeutic things! I love de-stressing that way!
We think alike! I just wrote an article on self care. its so important that we address self care and do it for our better selves.
Yes. We gotta give ourselves a little more love
This is a great list. I’m definitely going to do a few of these tomorrow. I have the day off and deserve some me time.
Thanks for the tips. Taking care of yourself really is the same as taking care of others 😉
I totally agree with you. As a mom, I need to take care of myself so I can take good care of my family, too.
Great tips, as always! Self-care is so important – without it there is no way for us to manage taking care about the people around us.
Taking days just for ourselves in which we try to pamper and treat ourselves with something are very important to a healthy state of mind. And we all know that a healthy mind is in a healthy body.
Absolutely love these ideas of self-care as steps to have a happier day and a happier life. Saved this to Pinterest so I can revisit your post when I need a reminder again. Thank you!
xx Luci
Self care is so important and it’s great that you take time for your self.
Self care is such an important aspect of maintaining good health. It’s something I haven’t done very well at in the past but started to focus on last summer. It makes a big difference.
I agree that self-care is so vital for a happy life, and mental health is so important! You have to take care of yourself.
I didn’t realize when I was younger just how much it means to take care of myself. I try now to do better, but still fall short much of the time.
Number 12 is something that always makes me feel better!
Wow these are amazing ideas I’ve never thought of trying. Thanks
I love the first that says: “Take a leisurely walk without a goal”
Just recently, i’ve started walking again and I gotta say, it feels so good to be out and enjoying the warmer weather and nature and just breathing in fresh air. It is definitely something I do to take care of “me”. I intend to keep it up too.
Yesss. Your body will thank you💛