35 SELF -CARE IDEAS TO BALANCE YOUR LIFE
CHOOSE THE ONES THAT YOU RESONATE WITH:
- Drink lots of water
- Take your vitamins
- Skin brush first thing in the morning
- Stop watching mindless TV
- Write down goals and on you mirror with a magic marker. You can wipe off with alcohol when completed
- Go to bed one hour early
- Practice deep breathing to reduce stress
- Write or say out loud 5 things you are grateful before getting out of bed
- When your aware of old negative thoughts replace them with positive ones
- Treat yourself to a massage
- Take a long relaxing bath
- Journal daily about how you feel
- Have a manicure or pedicure
- Put an affirmation app on your phone
- Sign up to receive positive affirmations in your email
- Listen to uplifting music
- Exercise 4-5 times a week, for half an hr. or more
- Call a friend
- Take 3 long deep breath before going into your home at the end of the day
- Go directly to your room and meditate after work for 1/2 hr. before interacting with the family
- Do your laundry or house chores when the commercials are playing
- Place pictures of family and friends all over the house
- Lean something new
- Plan a trip, it’s always nice to look forward to something
- Create a collage with all the things you want in your life
- Make easy healthy meals
- Join a yoga, or exercise group
- Schedule walking with a friend
- Meditate 10- 15 minutes a day
- Say something nice to one person a day
- Hang out with positive people
- Have a accountable partner to achieve goals
- Declutter any room that needs to be cleaned up
- Look in the mirror and say, I love you, repeat 5x, 3x a day
- Forgive yourself and others. Healing is loving yourself