Self-Care
Self-care are activities you can do to keep yourself well both physically and emotionally.
This can be as simple as eating and sleeping well to completing activities such as exercise. Give yourself permission to focus on yourself and think about what YOU need to make yourself feel better.
Sleep- when we suffer with anxiety or low mood it’s easy to fall into a negative sleeping pattern, for example, do you regularly wake during the night and find it hard to fall back to sleep? Are you exhausted at 6pm but when you go to bed you are wide awake? It is not lazy to listen to our bodies and have a snooze when we are feeling tired. We all feel guilty if we have a nap during the day, why is that? When we sleep, our bodies work hard internally to heal. If you are struggling to sleep, try Mindfulness techniques.
There are plenty of mindfulness videos on YouTube which you can access, try Wise Mind Body, borrow a Mindfulness book from the library or listen to Mindfulness music via YouTube, try, Meditation Relaxing Music.
You could also try deep breathing exercises, breathe slowly in through your nose for 5 seconds and out through your mouth for 5 seconds.
