Make Your Own Self-Care Kit!

@Tinywhisper11

Such nice deal don’t worry will be secret🥲💛

@theboymoana

Hiya Nahoa, I'm so happy to see you around always, trying to participate in different activities too.💛

Could you share what do you find difficult about this one? So Sun friend can try and explain it better.🤗

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 🥰 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! 🤗

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou

Hi sun friend ! Sorry long time answer not feel good while 🥲🥲just difficult is overwhelmed maybe so much things and not know think right things just copy friend say not know such confusing ☹️ I’m sorry not understand all ☹️

@theboymoana

It is okay to take your time, lovely. 💛

Okay, let's think of things that bring comfort and joy to you? What are somethings that make you feel relaxed?💛

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou

Thank you, now I learned there are various self-care types! 😃❤

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!🥰

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!💛

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 ✨

* 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!💛

It's so fascinating how you mentioned Stars for spiritual self care, do you mean stargazing though? How does it make you feel?✨

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou

Hey Sun! Hope you're doing okay :) And thanks I'm glad you like it 🤗

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! (': 

Yayy I love love love all things starrryyy, shiny, cosmiccyy and well, celestial, to put it in one word haha! xD 

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.🥰

Have you ever sighted any constellations?😮

@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! xD 

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! 😊🤗❤️

@mish3l

No worries!🤗❤

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?💛

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! 💛

@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! 💛

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou

Physical self-care: shower, skincare

Mental self-care: journaling

Emotional self-care: singing, music

Spiritual self-care: praying

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! 💖

@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?😃

+1000 for stuffed toys!🥰

@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.😃

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou maybe another time

@PlanetFitness Sure thing!

@EmilyEmi

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou where do you get these awesome animated gifs from? 💖

@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 ❤❤

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. ❤

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!🥰

Physical self-care:

• I've been eating more, since I'm currently underweight. 
• 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.

Mental 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.

Emotional 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.

Spiritual self-care: Being out with nature. I used to meditate (sort of) when I was younger. I am interested in yoga.

Intellectual self-care:

• Reading comics/articles/books
• Playing guitar
• Planning on - getting back into drawing and focusing on learning languages again. Additionally, would like to retouch up on programming skills and other craft/tech related skills and learn new things/hobbies.

Environment 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.

Social 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.

Financial 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.