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How to make a self-care plan?
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What is it for?

✅To better understand yourself and your needs. The very process of drawing up a strategy, and then applying it in practice, will help you get to know yourself and analyze what you want and what helps you feel better.

✅So as not to get lost in a difficult situation. Everyone has difficult periods: fatigue, breakup of relationships, blockage at work, emotional burnout. At such moments, you do not understand how to cope with this chaos and not lose your presence of mind. But if you already have a ready-made step-by-step plan, it will be easier to take control of the situation.

✅To take care of yourself regularly. And learn to support yourself on your own. After all, if you do this every day and understand your needs well, then it will be easier for you to calm down and gather yourself in times of crisis. As the saying goes, " I have me, and we can handle it."

Step 2. Think about what else could help you
Maybe you've come across some interesting tips, such as box breathing, which helps in a stressful situation. Or how to do a three-day sleep marathon and get yourself back to life after a hard week. Or maybe someone close to him said that he was literally saved by yoga classes or massage. Think of all the ideas that could add peace and joy to your life. Make a separate list of them.

Step 3. Divide your life into spheres
Choose the ones that are important to you, so that you can write a separate strategy for each of them. For example:

✔️ Work.
✔️ Relationships with people.
✔️ Body and physical activity.
✔️ Emotional stability.

Step 4. Think through your strategy
For each area, make a list of things to do that will help you feel more stable. To do this, use the ideas written out in the first two steps. Be realistic: all actions should be easy to perform.

Step 5. Remember the negative experience
We often try to calm our anxiety by doing things that are not the healthiest, which in the long run do not bring relief, but only make us feel even worse.

Write down all the destructive ways to deal with stress that you turn to, and think about how to replace them.

I haven't tried making a full-scale self-care plan, but I have a truncated version.: a small list of things to do that make me feel better and give me the strength to solve problems. It includes, for example, keeping a diary. Writing practices help at least a little to cope with melancholy, fatigue, burnout, crises and many other problems.

I also have reading, knitting, mint tea, meditation, sports on my list. If I don't feel very well and I need to get ready, I just look in my notebook and choose the things that can help me with this right now. And it works.

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