Self-care
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:24 pm
I'm posting about something I've just started taking very seriously: self-care. When depressed, when bored, when angry, when uncertain, what are the things you do to take care of yourself and feel more at ease with yourself and the world?
I realized recently that I have to take care of me or I will suffer burnout... or worse.
There are the old standbys... I love to listen to music, I love to read, I love to converse with friends. But I get in moods where I feel unable to do these things, dark moods that cripple me.
So the first item I need to make sure I don't neglect is seeing my doctors. I need to be as healthy as I can be in body and mind.
I need to not let myself withdraw from the people I love. It strains friendships and it trashes my self-image and happiness overall.
I needed to develop a hobby, one that gets me out of the house, replaces boredom with happiness, and occupies a lot of time. So I've decided that an easy to manage and maintain hobby would be Bird-watching. Birds are my favorite animals, even more than cats. So I'm going to get myself some decent binoculars, I've already got some field guides, and I'm going to scour the state of New Jersey, trying to find birds I've never seen before and observe behaviors of the birds I see all the time.
There are other techniques I'm trying to develop but that's a good start.
What are some of the things you do or you want to do to take care of yourself and keep yourself from losing your mind in this world?
I realized recently that I have to take care of me or I will suffer burnout... or worse.
There are the old standbys... I love to listen to music, I love to read, I love to converse with friends. But I get in moods where I feel unable to do these things, dark moods that cripple me.
So the first item I need to make sure I don't neglect is seeing my doctors. I need to be as healthy as I can be in body and mind.
I need to not let myself withdraw from the people I love. It strains friendships and it trashes my self-image and happiness overall.
I needed to develop a hobby, one that gets me out of the house, replaces boredom with happiness, and occupies a lot of time. So I've decided that an easy to manage and maintain hobby would be Bird-watching. Birds are my favorite animals, even more than cats. So I'm going to get myself some decent binoculars, I've already got some field guides, and I'm going to scour the state of New Jersey, trying to find birds I've never seen before and observe behaviors of the birds I see all the time.
There are other techniques I'm trying to develop but that's a good start.
What are some of the things you do or you want to do to take care of yourself and keep yourself from losing your mind in this world?