**Eating Disorder Check-ins** Week of July 14, 2024
Hi Everyone! I hope this week is starting out well.
I'd like to bring up self-care this week. As you look at the graphic above, are there any particular things there or activities of your own that you'd like to do for self-care this week? Is there anything that you enjoy doing already on a regular basis?
I'd love to hear from you and what self-care activity you'd like to implement this week whether from the graphic above or one of your own.
@KristenHR
Hi Kirsten!
Thank you for the check-in and the self-care challenge ideas.
Instead of disconnecting from social media for one day, today I decided to completely cancel all the apps from my phone.
I realized I don’t even follow friends of someone specific – I just browse through recipes I never follow (because I think they’re too caloric) or look at “perfect” people with bodies I will never be able to compare with.
So, on a whim, I just completely cancelled all of them.
As of what I do on a regular basis as self-care, I would say my morning run or morning workout.
Half an hour of peace where it’s just me, silence, fresh air and nothing to worry about.
For this
week I think I should implement the goal of celebrating the small wins.
I always tend to focus on the bad things and on what I did wrong, instead of focusing
on what I did right.
So yeah, I think I might take this as my goal for the week 😊
Thanks for giving me the idea Kirsten!!!!
I use quite a lot of these! Some I never really thought of as self -care, like finding a new podcast, so it makes it more encouraging to do them!
I journal and have been pretty consistent with it recently. In the past I would start and then lose track. But in my entries I started setting goals for the day, and I try to look back at my goals for the year ect.
I'm a "yogi" as well, but found that if I'm especially bored, staring to have a craving , that a 10 minute mini workout, even with some yoga moves, really helps me "reset".
Reading is a favorite of mine too!