Self-care strategies are those things an individual does to reduce stress and ultimately rejuvenate ones self. This could be done through a combination of physical, mental, or even spiritual activities.
Resilience is the ability of an individual to bounce back in the face of adversity.
When you're not feeling too great, what do you do?
Self-love & self care for students is a topic I didn't see many videos about, so I decided to make my own since I believe practicing self care is the best way to relax & destress. Always remember to prioritize yourself & your mental health over anything else! Don't stress yourself out too much with school. At the end of the day, your happiness matters the most. Spread love & learn to love yourself!
We all face stress each and every day, it is how we manage these stressors individually and whether we can identify within ourselves, when things are getting too much.
Season Growth Toolkit Selfcare Times Uncertainty COVID19.pdf
BITE BACK is Black Dog Institute’s FREE, self-guided online wellbeing and resilience program for young people aged 13 – 16 years old. Evidence shows that using BITE BACK can decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety and increase wellbeing.
This video explains some of the things you can try when you feel overwhelmed by your thoughts. After the video, take a few moments to observe your thoughts with curiosity, paying attention to how each one makes you feel. Paying attention to your thoughts and sorting through them takes practice and patience.
This video explains why pushing away unwanted thoughts, feelings and sensations can often make a situation worse. Use it when you are finding it hard to focus on the people and things that are important to you, or if you are spending too much energy avoiding your unwanted thoughts or feelings. After the video, take a moment to let all of your thoughts, feelings and sensations be with you, without pushing any of them away.
A short five-minute video they can listen to in the morning upon waking, before going to school or right before bedtime. It is designed to get teens thinking past where they are now and instead get them planning for their future.
Caitlin is changing the world, one Post-It at a time. At 16, she is the creator of Positive Post-It Day. She uniquely created the event to put an end to bullying after a bully urged her to die. Positive Post-It Day has grown to an international level, celebrated as far as Japan, Brazil, England and the United Arab Emirates. Her CBC National news segment has been viewed over 4 million times.
Self-Care-Wheel-Handout-2019.pdfHow do you think things might change if you responded to yourself in the same way you typically respond to a close friend when he or she is suffering? This exercise walks you through it.
We'll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Too many of us deal with common psychological-health issues on our own, says Guy Winch. But we don’t have to. He makes a compelling case to practice emotional hygiene — taking care of our emotions, our minds, with the same diligence we take care of our bodies.
Self-care is essentially the practice and routine to help you take care of yourself. Self care is any activities that we do deliberately to take care of our emotional and physical well-being. Good self care can help improve our mood, reduce stress and anxiety, and even help us develop better relationships. If you're someone who have a hard time practicing self care, we really recommend you watch this video. We cover 5 self care practices that people from around the world employ. Perhaps, something like Shin-yoku would work for you? :)
In this light-hearted video, Dr Russ Harris, author of the international best-seller The Happiness Trap, illustrates a technique from ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Called ‘Thanking Your Mind’, this is a simple but powerful method for taking the impact and power out of difficult, unhelpful thoughts.
The person we may find it hardest to be kind and sympathetic to is, surprisingly, ourselves. Yet being a friend to ourselves provides the only viable basis for living an emotionally fulfilled life.
Self-care can seem like a daunting task when you've already got a lot on your plate, so let's take a little time to reflect on what works best for you, and make an action plan.
We all face challenges and we all find ways to overcome them. Resilience is ordinary not extraordinary. We all have it to larger or smaller degrees. We want to help build awareness of this and support young peoples capacity to do positive and realistic things to support themselves. So push yourself, set new goals, overcome a hurdle.
