Day Five: My Self-Care Plan


It's the last day of Sarah Reed's Self-Care Week! We've been building toward this day all week. We're going to create our self-care plans. The self-care plan is one of our Sanctuary Tools that we ask every child and staff member to create and use. A good self-care plan touches every arena of life: Physical, emotional, moral, social, psychological, work/organization, etc. Our plans need to be this detailed to remind ourselves that self-care is a holistic endeavor.

That said, self-care plans can end up looking like imposing to-do lists. We can look at these lists, become discouraged and quit before we begin.

Remember these two truths: 

1) You already do many of the things that you're going to be writing on the plan. You already do self-care. Maybe not well, or enough, but the fact you are reading this post is indication that you're doing something right. Huzzah! 

2) You can do it all, just not all at once. No one does everything on his or her self-care plan every day or even every week. If someone did, you start flipping through the DSM looking for an appropriate diagnosis. I recklessly paraphrase a first century rabbi here: "Self-Care serves you, not the other way around." 

So we're good? Nobody's stress level should be spiking as we tackle our last four challenges. Here we go... 

Explore! It's time to tackle your self-care plan!

Mind! Gratitude literally rewires the brain and changes our outlook on life. Try it! 

Body! So you are grateful for a co-worker? Tell them!  

App! If you have an IPhone download "Get Gratitude." Own an Andriod? Try "Zest." Both apps prompt you to daily record the things for which you are thankful. 

Enter! Tell us what challenges you completed to be entered into the daily drawing. 


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