Tag Archives: Health and Wellness

Day 10 of my self care challenge: social downtime

Today is the “last day” of my self care challenge, but hopefully I can continue my intentional self care moving forward! It’s been a great reminder of how many intentional choices I can make to be kind to myself and take care of myself, and something I think I should repeat in the future asContinue reading “Day 10 of my self care challenge: social downtime”

Day 8 of my self care challenge: short and sweet

Today was my first day back to work since I started my 10 day self care challenge , and like I had anticipated, it was a busy day! There wasn’t as much chaos as I would have thought, but I definitely was mentally tired after the day! It took me a while to relax myContinue reading “Day 8 of my self care challenge: short and sweet”

Day 6 of my Self care challenge: practicing self regulation and self compassion

If you’ve been following along my self care challenge, or if you’re new to this post, 6 days ago I decided to challenge myself to 10 days of self care activities. The hope was to care for myself in this transition between programs at work, and to get into routines of self care…. But it’sContinue reading “Day 6 of my Self care challenge: practicing self regulation and self compassion”

Day 5 of my Self care challenge: completing passion projects

Five days ago I was inspired to challenge myself to 10 days of self care, with the hopes to start setting myself up for a good pattern of self care for the new school year. I really just intended to share it in blog posts to normalize self care looking different than fancy spa activities.Continue reading “Day 5 of my Self care challenge: completing passion projects”

Day 3 of my self care challenge

Today’s self care post comes from a different space. Yesterday’s post above was about working through challenges to do nice things; my neon green manicure is still bringing me so much joy today 🙂 Today’s overall theme was giving myself grace. This morning I woke up and needed extra time than I had planned toContinue reading “Day 3 of my self care challenge”

Day 2 of my Self Care challenge: learning about myself 🤍

Yesterday I decided to give myself a 10 day self care challenge! The post is linked down below, but basically I am going to try to intentionally do nice things for myself all this week to remind myself of how important I am. It seems that this challenge is also starting to open up myContinue reading “Day 2 of my Self Care challenge: learning about myself 🤍”

Quote of the Day 💚

Today’s quote of the day comes as I am on a long weekend between the transition from summer camp programming to more structured “school year” programming at work! At the outdoor facility I work at as an Occupational Therapist, our day programs look different during summer vs school year. In the summer the biggest goalContinue reading “Quote of the Day 💚”