Self Care Tips For Total Wellness

Self Care Tips For Fun First

Self care tips don’t have to be expensive, time consuming, or difficult to do do. Self care can seem beyond your reach, but it’s really important for your mood and your overall wellbeing. We’ll look at various approaches to self care, but for us fun should come first. Here’s why. Many people dismiss the whole issue of self care because it seems like too much trouble and too time consuming. You already have a lot to do.

Work is hard, parenting is hard, keeping relationships satisfying and fun, that’s hard too. Every aspect of life takes effort. So we’re going to start with self care ideas everyone can do to feel good every day with little or no effort. And then move on.

Self Care Tips For Emotional Wellness

Laugh Often: Your Sense Of Humor Is A Life Saver

You’ve heard that laughter is the best medicine, and we know it’s true. Feeling blue? Add some comedy in your daily life. Pets can make you laugh, toddlers can make you laugh. Comics, live or in the funny papers, can make you laugh. There’s also laugh yoga. So laugh.

Play And Get Creative

We play at our hobbies: crafting, gardening, cooking, even shopping are all self care ideas for fun. We play sports. We play games with others and alone. The simple act of playing games, whether alone or with other people, has a way of helping you to relax, enjoy life and improve brain function. Yes, you improve brain function when you play games or have a hobby. Play at every age is essential and will keep you young.

Relationship Tune Ups

Do loved ones bug you or ask too much? Here is a tip for relationship building. Want to show your love? Take the awe challenge. Need to learn about boundary setting? You’ll feel better fast when you start saying no. Your relationship needs care, too.

Expressing Your Emotions.

Feel bad? do something about it. Don’t just stew in your own bad-feeling juices. We love to journal because once we’ve written our angry or hurt feelings down, the power they have on us is lessened. Talk to a trusted friend. Get help from a professional.

Stay Connected

Connections with other people keep you from the loneliness that is soul destroying. Having friends is not always easy so find other ways to be with people and find joy in activities or sharing with them. Friendship and community centers, volunteering, church or religious attendance can all help with feeling needed, seen and part of the world.

Self Care Tips For Physical Health

All right physical health. This is what we all long for. We want to be happy, but we also want to be healthy. How do we stay healthy at any age. Actually it’s the same no matter how old or young you are. Your brain and body have the same needs.

Let’s break it down. Your physical health depends on a combination of good hygiene, enough rest or sleep, healthy eating habits, and exercise. That’s it. Once you learn it, you always know it. And seeing doctors and dentists regularly. Let’s unpack.

Self Care Tips For Hygiene and Beauty

Summer means remembering sweat care and skin care needs. Do you bathe and wash your hands and face regularly? Don’t let cleanliness go. You need to be clean everywhere to stay healthy and feel good. Some say it’s better to shower at night. We like the before dinner quick shower, clean clothes. Not everyone has time for everything, but cleaning up always makes you feel great.

Consider your soap, toothpaste, hair products and deodorant. We all need to stay fresh especially in summer. What products do you use for your skin? We have sun blocks, cleansing and nourishing products.

Consider your beauty care, too. Is your make really old. Hygiene for makeup matters, too. Check out your products and consider changes. What vitamins do you need for hair and nails. See, self care is not just getting your nails done.

Self Care Tips For Exercise

We said in the emotional wellness section that you feel good when you play games and have hobbies. Well, exercise produces another kind of natural high. For some people exercise is a dirty word. It means getting up from the sofa and doing cardiac pumping activities. Not at all. You don’t have to play tennis or lift weights or hike the Appalachian Trail to get

If you don’t like weight-lifting, running, or high impact exercise, consider tai chi and yoga (that’s what we do). Walking in nature if you can produces a natural high. Riding a bike,

Self Care Tips For Sleep

It doesn’t matter how old or young you are. You need sleep to recharge your brain and body. 7- 8 hours sleep are ideal. You may not think you need it, but you do. How to get more sleep when you have trouble getting enough rest.

Go to bed earlier, and make sure you are limiting your caffeine and alcohol intake. If you have trouble sleeping, don’t have caffeinated drinks in the afternoon. Turn off your devices and TV at least a half an hour before going to bed.

Listen to soothing sounds, read a book. Consider your mattress, pillow, and ambient noises. What could be keeping you up? If you wake up in the night, what’s better to stay in bed, or get up an read for a bit? Everyone’s different. Journaling if you’re worried about something can also relieve pressure before going to bed. Consider your sleep hygiene. What are your habits an how can you improve.

7 Self Care Ideas For Healthy Sleep

Self Care Tips To Eat Healthy

We’ve put nutrition last because eating healthy and weight management is the toughest challenge many people face. How do we eat healthy and manage weight when so many foods we love are addictive? Literally addictive. Those chips, those candy bars, those cookies and fries.

All are tied into the part of our brain that thinks we’re doing it a favor. Our brain doesn’t know the difference between what feels good and what can do harm. It’s not your fault if you choose the foods that your taste buds have learned to crave. Eating healthy is a skill that anyone can learn.

Here, we’re just going to give you a few self care tips to think healthier to start eating healthier. The three As work here. Awareness, Acceptance, Action. Be aware that all foods are not equally good for you and you have control over what you eat. Accept that foods you want can be harmful to your health goals. Take action and make a eat healthy plan. Baby steps. We’ll give you some here.

Stay hydrated

Drinking water keeps you filled up. It takes your mind off of snacking and is vital for good health in summer.

Eat Something Every Few Hours

Never let yourself get too hungry. Getting too hungry gives you low blood sugar, makes you irritable, and motivates you to eat too much when food is available. The solution is to take an apple or healthy snack with you. And we don’t mean a bag of chips.

Consider Substitutions

This takes some thought. Can you eat an apple instead of a donut? The donut may taste better at first, but if you begin making healthy substitutions, you’ll start preferring the apple. Step one is replace the donuts (cookies cakes) with fruit at the grocery store. Just don’t have them at home.

In summer we have watermelon and other melons and so many kinds of fresh fruit. Substitute yogurt for ice cream. Nuts for Nutella. Baked potato for fries. You get the idea. This takes practice. But works if you keep at it.

Manage Your Carbohydrates

Here are a few self care tips for managing those oh- so-tempting pancakes, waffles, donut, cookie cravings. We love to cook and eat, but we don’t eat everything we cook every day. We do the substitutions during the week and allow ourselves a special Sunday breakfast with the treat of our choice. We just don’t eat those treats every day. It makes a huge difference.

Use Math And Creativity

We talked about awareness. Turn your awareness into creativity to be aware of what you eat, and calculate how you can make changes. This turns cravings into creativity and that is great for brain function and feeling good about yourself. This isn’t for everyone, but for obsessives, like us, it’s great.

Make lists of what you normally eat in a day. Do the math. Consider substitutions and do the math of how many calories that will save you. This is for the math fans. There are many aps for this. Eating health can be a matter of choosing a healthy eating ap that will do the work for you.