Welcome to Day 4 of WA Mental Health Week. Today, we're diving into one of the most complex dimensions of self-care: time. It's the resource we all wish we had more of, yet often struggle to manage effectively. Let's unpack the various faces of time and discover how to make it work for our wellbeing, not against it.
Read MoreWelcome to Day 3 of Mental Health Week, and our focus is habits - those automatic behaviors that shape our daily lives and, ultimately, our wellbeing. Understanding how habits form and how to reshape them is a powerful tool in your self-care approach and embodiment.
Read MoreOften, we underestimate the impact of small changes in our thinking or behavior. We may believe that these tiny tweaks don't make a difference. However, it's the accumulation of these small changes that contributes to our personal growth and development.
Read MoreSelf-care can be seen as a repertoire of practices – different things you can do that help you care for you, no matter how small. It is those small acts, often that we forget about or dismiss, that can be incredibly powerful. Repeated over time they become a habit that is empowering for you. My small self-care act is savouring a green tea.
Read MoreMy friend, let’s call him Max, sent me a text. He’s a lecturer who is also undertaking his final 6 months of the Phd. He asked me “how do I respond to a request to be a reviewer for a journal?”. Let’s unpack some question sto help you answer this where self-care is present.
Read MoreI am heading into the 2021 working year feeling behind. What about you? I don’t think I’ve ever said that before, and I have definitely not said that out loud before. But I feel rather empowered in saying it out loud to you all. And this empowerment has me thinking about what I need to tweak as I more forward - hello a mini experiment in piggyback, mono-tasking, and slowing down.
Questions to think about and you ponder your screen time, green time, down time and me time.
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How we spend our time is remarkably different right now. To be kinder to myself I am thinking about my day like this:
Screen time
Green time
Me time
Down time
Read MoreI have embarked on an experiment to see how I can look at how I use my time and reduce my work hours but also honour the best parts of the day that work for me for creative and think time.
Read MoreBoundary settings are rules, rituals, goals, guidelines or limits that you set for yourself in regards to your personal and/or professional life.
Read MoreIn this post I connect with ideas of self-care to curb perfectionist spiraling out of control. There are 23 strategies for your self-care package to consider.
Read MoreHave you come back from end of year festive break email overload? Is your inbox overflowing? Hello, yes, that’s me as well.
Read MoreI write as part of my mindful creative actions. It is a part of my productive coping strategy tool box.
Read MoreSelf-care is anything you can do to help your physical, mental or emotional health. There are a variety of, and indeed combination of approaches and strategies you can carry out to help you with this.
Read MoreThis is a great concept. I really like it. And before, you panic and go into all the "what if” scenarios, let's remind ourselves that.
Read MoreAs the year progresses and the end of the year comes closer (I heard someone talk about how many days to Christmas just the other day, yikes!)
Read MoreWe have now become accustomed to being always connected. Most of us have multiple devices, we have multiple social media accounts (sometimes multiple with the same platform for different audiences and purposes), and we have multiple email accounts.
Read MoreOver the end of year period we all stop...or at least try to stop. We connect with family and friends. But importantly we connect with our self and what we have learnt.
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