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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.

Asking for help is an important part of looking after ourselves
Noticing what makes us feel stressed and then thinking of solutions can help us
It is important to recognise and talk about how we are feeling

Try this next

Draw a cloud and inside it draw a picture of you doing something that you enjoy doing, that makes you feel relaxed or happy or energised.

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.