Self Care Activities

Hi @Shaz51 - howvou feeling today? Thanks for the callout about the Coping Box 👍 and pic to summarise. I've had to pull my coping box out a lot over the years, since learning about it here. I keep mine simple cause just so overwhelmed when I have to go there. Helps.

This image is my self care activity today... Purple iris that won't flower this year - so today I dug it out, separated into three attractive pots 🤞. Hope it works and they come good, beause my girl loved purple. It's overcast out today, and still, but really nice (no hot sun), therapeutic out there. Even a kookaburra came by today, watching me a while (much to the distress of a flock of honeybirds), Kukka had a a good laugh. Yesterday we had a WillyWag dancing around. The birds bring me joy, the fresh air snd being active and creativite, all helps 🔆 🌱🔆🌳🔆🌿🔆

hello and hugs my @Former-Member

thank you for your message , i love purple too

i even had my room painted 2 shades of purple years ago

Birds are lovely , willy wagtails, honey eaters are building a nest on the clothes line

it is raining up here

i brought mum a orchid last year and it has flowered this weekend , lovely

resting a bit today @Appleblossom , @Former-Member , got a belly full of wind for some reason today

going to make a Tuna bake for dinner tonight xx

My whites are in full flower and the purple are budding nicely. My physio's garden is finally bearing iris!

@Former-Member @Shaz51

Blue Blooms and Buds

Hello @outlander I had to laugh when you said that I reminded you that you need to buy some new clothes. I don't remember this but I do hope you have had fun choosing something nice for yourselve. A great pick me up! I really feel for everyone in lockdown it is very intimidating and quite suffocating. Fingers crossed it doesn't last long.

everthing in moderation is good for you outlander. Just not everyday all day. A haircut is such a good self care activity. Go wild with your imagination it will grow out...Lol

Love this @Appleblossom

Todays self care activities where resting,getting plenty of sleep last night,staying calm,hot shower,regular meals,keeping connected to family,writting on the forums,going to do some reading and listen to music before bed

Hello Everyone Lately Self care has been one of the main things I try to keep doing whatever day Im having,todays self care was switching off from social media and listening to relaxing soul music while trying to work out what Birthday Cake to order,but Ive also gotten back into Journalling when I feel the need to Journal,as well as keeping in contact with family by phone and message ,that along with a phone councilling session has been helpfull, also taking daily meds and eating regular meals helps too

hello @outlander , @Snowie @Appleblossom todays self care was plenty of sleep,hot shower,face cream,lip gloss,eating regulary

Good evening @LostAngel @outlander @Appleblossom @Shaz51 @Snowie @Former-Member @Paperdaisy @Former-Member @Daisydreamer and all forumites here. I'm so glad each of you are taking care of yourselves with lots of different self care activities like journaling and keeping in contact with the various mental health professionals with whom you deal with. Well done everyone👍🏻⭐️!

Over the past 4 or so weeks, my self care activities have been;

- completing my daily Calm app mood check in each night as a way of checking in with myself about my overall mood and journaling in the app how things have gone each day and why I chose that specific mood

- Posting my daily achievements on the Daily Achievements! thread as a reminder to what I've achieved each day, no matter how big or small the task was. This helps me with my depression as I'm forced to find something that was an achievement and recognise it as something positive and good in my day, no matter what the thing was, such as having a shower for instance which may seem small but to me, that can be a real achievement if all I've wanted to do is stay in bed all day in my pjs.

- Been in contact a week ago with my brilliant psychologist who has been helping me deal with my many mental health issues, including helping me during my recent hospital admission in September due to psychosis and schizophrenia.

- Working on my Mental Health Recovery Blanket that I started when I was in hospital and which I'm slowly working on completing slowly as a reminder of what I went through in hospital and what brought me into hospital and helped in my recovery from my episode l.
- Knitting beanies for charity as a coping mechanism for stress and when things get difficult for me to deal with mentally. I find the beanie pattern to be calming and I like how I have to focus on the rib pattern especially as that's one very important section in the pattern that I can't afford to mess up.

Take care and keep on enjoying your self care activities!

Judi9877