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Make Your Own Self-Care Kit!
Hey hey lovely people coming across, I hope you're doing well today. š
Inviting everyone to partake in a fun activity where we make our self-care kit, based on the different kinds of self-care there is.
Let's add one activity/ item for each of them, in our kit. š
Physical self-care:
Mental self-care:
Emotional self-care:
Spiritual self-care:
Intellectual self-care:
Environment self-care:
Social self-care:
Financial self-care:
You are also welcome to add one bonus item/ activity of your choice to this kit.
Super excited to see what your self-care kit looks like. Feel welcome to tag your peers encouraging them to engage in some self-care also! š
@Tinywhisper11
Such nice deal donāt worry will be secretš„²š
@theboymoana
Hiya Nahoa, I'm so happy to see you around always, trying to participate in different activities too.š
Could you share what do you find difficult about this one? So Sun friend can try and explain it better.š¤
Described the following a little more, for you:
Physical self-care: (something that makes you feel physically better like a good sleep, exercise, swimming etc)
Mental self-care: (something that makes you feel mentally supported like therapy, talking to listeners etc)
Emotional self-care: (something that makes you feel supported emotionally, like talking about how you feel, journaling, spending time with yourself etc)
Spiritual self-care: (something that makes you feel better spiritually like meditation, listening to spiritual music, attending spiritual gatherings etc)
Intellectual self-care: (something for your amazing brain, to engage in creative or critical thinking, like learning something new, hobbies, reading etc)
Environment self-care: (for the environment we live in, because if we take care of our environment, it'll take care of us also š„° this could include everything from saving energy and resources to planting trees etc)
Social self-care: (self care around our connections with others~ through meeting people, having boundaries, volunteering, petting animals etc)
Financial self-care: (activities that make us feel supported financially, like saving more and spending less, not spending on unnecessary things, making a plan for our spending etc)
In general though, we are asking about what all activities and items bring you comfort and are part of your self-care kit.
You can add anything and everything in your self care kit that makes you feel better okiee, from kitties to surfing to squishmallows to everything else you need! š¤
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Hi sun friend ! Sorry long time answer not feel good while š„²š„²just difficult is overwhelmed maybe so much things and not know think right things just copy friend say not know such confusing ā¹ļø Iām sorry not understand all ā¹ļø
@theboymoana
It is okay to take your time, lovely. š
Okay, let's think of things that bring comfort and joy to you? What are somethings that make you feel relaxed?š
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Thank you, now I learned there are various self-care types! šā¤
Physical self-care: Eat healthy food
Mental self-care: Worry less
Emotional self-care: Use cbt practice to calm our mind
Spiritual self-care: attend church service
Intellectual self-care: take quizzes online
Environment self-care: Use public transport
Social self-care: Hangout to movie with friends
Financial self-care: Have a budget list
@RachelListener
So glad you learned more about different types of self-care. Those are some activities in your self-care kit! Yay!š„°
Physical- sleep
Mental- mindfulness / self-talk / chatgpt / this app
Emotional- journaling / crying
Spiritual- meditation / birds / daydreaming
Intellectual- reading / art
Environment selfcare- clean space clean mind
Social- dont have it / minecraft
Financial- overthink everything
@0B
Aw can relate with overthinking everything but hope you can find something helpful for your financial self care also! As for social self care, I believe the supportive interactions on 7 cups could be counted also. Keep it up!š
Thank you for such a creative idea Sunshine!
* Physical self-care: painkillers and a massage
* Mental self-care: 7Cups and therapy
* Emotional self-care: love, my kids and my husband
* Spiritual self-care: stars āØ
* Intellectual self-care: always learn something new, constantly trying to improve
* Environment self-care: nature, be more in it
* Social self-care: healthy boundaries, hugs
* Financial self-care: a savings account
@mish3l
Hey hey Mishh, its lovely to see you again, thank youu for sharing such sweet self-care ideas, I love your kit!š
It's so fascinating how you mentioned Stars for spiritual self care, do you mean stargazing though? How does it make you feel?āØ
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Hey Sun! Hope you're doing okay :) And thanks I'm glad you like it š¤
Yes stargazing, or images of stars and galaxies in movies or internet. Stargazing is amazing, the more when you have places with a low light smog :)
@mish3l
Oh noes, my apologies for missing this tag earlier, Mishhhh! (':Ā
Yayy I love love love all things starrryyy, shiny, cosmiccyy and well, celestial, to put it in one word haha! xDĀ
Stargazing is absolutely amazing. You're right though, about the need for a clear sky to actually be able to gaze at 'em beautiful stars.š„°
Have you ever sighted any constellations?š®
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou it's okay Sun, I'm sure you have a lot on your plate :)
Yeah I learned the constellations since I was a kid so I know the most common ones and some planet poaitions. The SkyMap Android app is very good to learn them :)
@mish3l
You soooo kind! <3
Ooh I'd have to check it out now, thank you for sharing, and yusss, its great when the school lessons can be *sighted* beautifully in the sky, during the classes they were mostly just boring for me in theory hehe! xDĀ
I remember this website, 100000 stars something, that is an interactive place to virtually gaze at stars and learn so much about the galaxies. It is a pretty cool site! :D
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou thanks for the tip, I'll check it out! šš¤ā¤ļø
Physical self-care: invigorating walks, pushups, core-work, sweating to detox body & emotions
Mental self-care: RAIN - Tara Brach's Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Non-Judgment, qigong, taichi
Emotional self-care: left-right handwriting journaling
Spiritual self-care: being in church, bible
Intellectual self-care: studying acupuncture
Environment self-care: planting trees, pulling invasive vines, keeping take-out containers in my car
Social self-care: sending ecards to friends
Financial self-care: Gift myself space by donating and clearing clutter when I want to buy something to fill the void
Just-be self-care: sitting under the sun on the grass and feeling the sun on my face
Hiya @Flowingstreams I love your username, is it symbolic for something, you feel comfortable elaborating more on, would love to hear, if so?š
I appreciate how you've added multiple things/ activities in your self-care kit, some of the ideas in "mental self care" are news to me but I'll definitely check them out, many thanks for sharing!
Ooh and I absolutely love that you mentioned sitting on grass under the sun and feeling the sunshine on your face~ woah what a beautiful experience, one of those moments, when even if momentarily, everything feels fine in the world! š
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
- Physical self-care: Gym
- Mental self-care: Therapy
- Emotional self-care: Journal
- Spiritual self-care: Go to church
- Intellectual self-care: Studying for my class
- Environment self-care: Clean my room
- Social self-care: Connecting with coworkers
- Financial self-care: Limit on debit & credit card
Hey hey @lightPlum640 thank you so much for sharing, I hope you feel more encouraged to practice self-care now that you've got a sweet kit with yourself! š
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Physical self-care: shower, skincare
Mental self-care: journaling
Emotional self-care: singing, music
Spiritual self-care: praying
Environment self-care: laundry, housework
Social self scare: cousin hangout
Financial self-care: managing my upcoming financial requirements and estimating them.
Hiya @Samar19 it's always good to see you around, thank you for sharing your self-care kit with us, looks pretty fantabulous, specially the "cousin hangout" bit~ I feel it's quite underrated how wholesome it can be to hang out with our cousins (the nice ones loooool). And of course, praying for your safety and wellbeing! Happy self-caring! š
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
physical: Some snacks hidden in my room:)
mental: My little journal
emotional: a stuffed toy(for anxiety attacks)
spiritual: crystal for contacting my ghost friends>:D
intellectual: my vampire history bookkk
environmental: one of my pressed flowers
social: my phone so i can text my friends:3
financial:i'm broke and haven't started my job yet TwT but i could start saving once i get my job
Hey hey @Eddieflwwrboii so nice to meet you and woah, some interesting answers here hehe. What sparked your interest in crystals and vampires?š
+1000 for stuffed toys!š„°
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
I've always been fascinated by history, specifically the paranormal side of it, so vampires are just a constant interesting thing to study, and crystals are generally just good for meditation and mental cleansing!
@Eddieflwwrboii Very intriguing to hear, I can totally sense the fascination here, thanks for sharing.
Physical self-care: exercise outdoors
Mental: daydream
Emotional: Journal or chat at 7 cups
Spiritual: Meditation, journal (revise my goals and objectives)
Intellectual: browse the net to answer puzzles I have in my head
Environment: recycle, bike or walk to work
Social: Commit to my communities
Financial : say no to plans that involve spending money and I'm not interested in
@Aputik
So many wonderful ways of incorporating self-care in your life, thank you for sharing!
I like how you mentioned about avoiding plans that involve money and you're not even interested in it. I think, alot of people might relate to this one, as often many of us get swayed by our peers/ people around us in spending on activities/ things/ experiences that we otherwise wouldn't or just don't want to, but ofcourse, telling a no could be hard hehe, I think that's a pretty awesome self-care hack too, "saying no to everything not great for you".
Happy self-caring.š
@PlanetFitness Sure thing!
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou where do you get these awesome animated gifs from?Ā š
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Physical self-care: Eat a vegitable.
@RidireAmethyst
Very honest haha, I like this version of "self-aware-care kit to meet current needs"! Thanks for sharing!
Self care is so important ā¤ā¤
Can sometimes be put to the side at times! Gotta take care of MYSELF and YOU!
@LovelyFrog8934
Yes yes, you gotta move to the side where you've put self-care at hehe. ā¤
I found this self care kit for November for cats and I really liked it.
@PatienceImpatiens
Oooh so cozy, I love it, Pat, thanks for sharing!š„°
Physical self-care:
- I've been eating more, since I'm currently underweight.Ā
- Going for walks
- Occasionally casual exercises (want to get into calisthenics)
- Need to work on - getting proper sleep and eliminating vices (ex. Caffeine, alcohol, vaping, smoking MJ, watch p***, etc). I've easily eliminated alcohol and vaping, as it's not very high on my vice list and not very desirable for me.to do, but caffeine has been difficult...when I have no caffeine, I get headaches and body aches. I'm planning on drinking more water and doing heavier workouts, it may curb away the bad feelings.
MentalĀ self-care: Been trying different techniques to keep my mind safe. For example, if I am anxious, I try the "What I can control vs what I can not control" technique. Sometimes, if I feel very strongly (in a negative way) about something, I try to examine those feelings, and I make sure I eat too, an upset stomach can make the mind irritated --or even take a nap.
EmotionalĀ self-care: Journalling electronically as well as video-journsl to express myself freely. Furthermore, I'm trying to figure out my triggers from past trauma, so I can better cope or (hopefully) heal from it. Occasionally, I join the gratitude support group here on 7cups to help me switch to or stay in a positive mindset.
SpiritualĀ self-care: Being out with nature. I used to meditate (sort of) when I was younger. I am interested in yoga.
IntellectualĀ self-care:
- Reading comics/articles/books
- Playing guitar
- Planning on - getting back into drawing and focusing on learning languages again.Ā Additionally, would like to retouch up on programming skills and other craft/tech related skills and learn new things/hobbies.
EnvironmentĀ self-care: Would love to get back into recycling, self-sustainability and zero-waste. I used to be good about it, but fell out of it. I'm also trying to keep the house clean, been feeling depressed lately and it started to get messy, but I recently cleaned up a big mess, it looks much nicer now.
SocialĀ self-care: Going to make an effort to spend more quality time with the little one. I've been extremely stressed out lately, especially as a **solo-parent, that I don't have the energy I should have... Apart from that, I want to spend more meaningful time with my (long distance, 2hrs away) significant other whenever I can. We currently talk daily and often do very long phone calls.
** I see myself as a solo-parent, as I am no longer single, but currently in a new relationship, so I'm still parenting solo.
I also come here on 7cups too, which I suppose is socializing? I don't really have social media and tend to keep to myself to be quite honest.
FinancialĀ self-care: This is one I've struggled with a lot. I need to come up with a better plan. I tend to waste money on eating out and buying coffee often... I currently work a part-time temp job, but may get a full-time permanent position. I just need to learn to budget properly and not be so impulsive... I plan on trying to do the 20/30/50 rule again with my income, which is 20% goes into savings, 30% "fun" money, and 50% towards bills. I might switch the 20% for fun money and 30% for savings. I have a goal in mind, I want to save up enough money to leave this city/state, as I'm trapped here, family-less.