everyday self-care
Enjoying a meal together as a family of friends. The conversation, connection, smiles, laughs, and genuine love for each other. These moments I savour with friends who live overseas.
The feel of wool in my fingers. The slowing down with my breathing, thinking, and just being is what comes with working with wool. I miss it if I don’t make.
being a wellbeing citizen scientist
Self-care is all about making yourself a priority and taking proactive steps to nurture your overall health and wellbeing. It sounds simple enough - taking care of yourself - but in reality, true self-care is a complex process that requires deliberate effort, change, time, and self-reflection. Self-care isn't just one big action, but rather a repertoire of small practices and habits that collectively help you develop, protect, maintain, and improve your physical, mental, and emotional wellness.
Practicing true self-care means treating yourself with the same compassion you would show a close friend. It involves cultivating self-awareness to recognize your needs, empowering yourself to make choices that serve you, setting aside time dedicated to your wellbeing, and building positive habits. Self-care requires ongoing attention in key areas like self-love, self-awareness, self-compassion, self-knowledge, personal empowerment, time management, and sustainable habits - aspects that are often overlooked amidst our daily responsibilities and societal pressures. Committing to a self-care practice is an act of prioritizing your own needs and wellbeing, but also acknowledging it is relational as one care for one in order to care for others, and relies on others for motivation, inspiration support and/or action.
This project is interested everyday acts of self-care.
Camping under the stars. Mother nature is awe inspiring. She is grounding bringing me back to basics and just me.
