Recently, I was cleaning out some boxes in my office and came across some cards I had created in 2014. They were one of my very first attempts at implementing and tracking a self-care routine.
They have about six million things on them that I wanted to track. They obviously took me a while to format and print. It looks like I used less than ten of them.
If you’ve been around a while, you know that in 2013 I burned out hard, and that burnout manifested itself in a nearly fatal illness. When I was fully recovered and started working to avoid a repeat of anything like that ever again, my Google searches led to this totally foreign concept of self-care.
Read moreWhen I first started trying to figure out how to “self-care,” there was literally so much information out there! What was I supposed to do with all of this? I scoured the internet, all the books, and every other resource I could find to try and get a good handle on what I was doing.
It took so much time, and what I eventually discovered is that self-care is so individualized, and it changes all the time. After years of building and implementing my own self-care plan, I have discovered that there are a few things that most people can start with that will ensure success, and those don’t change. I put all of those things together in a handy dandy one-sheet reference for you!
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