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How can we look after ourselves?

Self-care is making choices to look after ourselves in different ways, to care for our mental and physical health. We can have lots of feelings and these can be difficult or uncomfortable, or happy and energised, and it is important that we notice these and then choose ways to take care of ourselves.

Noticing our feelings and knowing they can change is important for us
Noticing what makes us feel stressed and then thinking of solutions can help us
By taking care of ourselves we can change the feelings we have

Try this next

Find a pebble and decorate it, choose a colour, symbol or picture that means something to you. Keep this pebble handy and use it for pebble meditation again, next time you have difficult feelings.

For parents: The concept of self-care

For children to develop self-care they need adults who value their own self-care and can support children to take care and to begin to look after themselves. By noticing, validating and using language to name and describe feelings to children, they can begin to regulate and then to make choices to calm their bodies down or to energise themselves. Children need to hear it’s ok to put ourselves first, it’s ok to have a range of different feelings and to be able to ask for help. How to help your children with self-care. Read our blog.