Pillars of self-care and mental health
/Our self-care practices often drop during busy or stressful times unless they are fully integrated into our daily routines.
To support making incremental improvements, we developed a worksheet describing the different pillars of self-care and mental health. The idea is to think through these areas and to note what behaviors you have automated (to some degree) - and which ones you might want to shore up to be able to more comfortably navigate stressful or busy times.
This short video shares our inspiration for the worksheet:
Want to learn more? Here is some material that we are inspired by:
Mental Health Toolkit: Tools to Bolster Your Mood & Mental Health (Huberman Lab, October 29, 2023)
Boundaries, Burnout and the ‘Goopification” of Self-Care (The Ezra Klein Show, September 19, 2023)
The Science and Power of Hope (Chan Hellman, TEDxOklahomaCity, May 2021)