Personal Healing, Reflection & Growth
Self-Care
Self-care is anything you do to take care of yourself so you can stay physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally well. Its benefits are better physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health and well-being. Research suggests self-care promotes positive health outcomes, such as living longer and becoming better at coping and dealing with stress.
Creating a Self-Care Kit
Creating a self-care kit can be both helpful and practical. It aims to help comfort you in times of need. This kit is meant to help you feel more relaxed and give you a break from stress. While creating your kit, you can add various things to keep your spirits high when you are in need. For example, you might want to add positive notes to yourself, affirmations, words of advice, or your favourite quotes.
How to create your kit:
We recommend you gather items that make you most comfortable. This can range from activities, food, medicines, cultural items, clothing, etc. and store them in one place. Create a self-care basket, bag, or bin that can include all your favourite things. This kit can be used everyday, periodically, or only when you need to relax. Self-care is an important activity that can be done simply for yourself.
Make a list here of what you want to put into your self-care kit:
Make a list here of what you want to put into your self-care kit:
