I created this course to share what I’ve learned about self-care.

Self-care refers to anything we do to take care of ourselves. This could be our physical, mental, emotional or social needs.

Self-care is something we should be doing every day, not just on special occasions or when we feel like we need it.

Caring for our physical bodies is incredibly important. This includes movement, nutrition and rest.

Our bodies are built to move! That said, there is no “perfect” exercise so we need to find what works for us.

Physical self-care doesn’t have to be a big thing! Simply getting up and taking a walk can go a long way…

Food and drink fuels our body and gives us energy. This means making good decisions about what we eat and drink impacts our self-care.

Our bodies and minds need time to recover. This is where sleep and rest come in.

Taking care of our mental state is an important part of self care. Here we'll get a good overview of what that includes.

Meditation help us focus on thoughts, and relax our minds. It’s one tool in our mental self-care toolkit.

This breathing pattern will help focus your breath, and mind - especially during meditation.

Mindfulness is about being in the moment and being aware of what’s going on right now.

Technology is a great tool, but it can also cause us challenges. Mindful use of technology is important to our mental self-care.

Visualizing our success, or happiness, or other positive things in our lives, can help us feel better about things. This involved picturing something in our mind that helps calm us down, see us succeeding in our goals and other positive things.

Gratitude helps us become more aware of the positive and good things in our lives. And, like many things, it’s a skill we can build.

Having a mental “gap” between home and work is important to set our mental space. If you work from home, make up a “commute” to help provide that gap.

Taking care of our emotions is a crucial aspect of self care. Here we'll get an overview of what that looks like.

Be compassionate with ourselves - accepting and understanding we have flaws - is an important part of being emotionally healthy. Everyone experiences set backs and makes mistakes, so learning how to be gentle with ourselves is important!

Taking time to write down how we feel can help improve our emotional self help. Learn about journaling here.

Stress is part of our daily lives, so learning how to effectively manage it is critical to our self care. Stress-management isn't about making stress disappear, but rather how to adapt and adjust to it being our lives.

Understanding our own emotions, and emotions of others, is important to our self care. Emotional intelligence helps us be aware of our own (and others!) emotions, which helps us better understand them.

Humans are social creatures, so understand how to take care of ourselves in social scenarios is critical to self care. Get an overview of this here.

Feeling like we belong to a group or community is important. Not only does it give us a sense of belonging, it helps us interact with others who are interested in the same things we are. Learn how to build a sense of belonging here.

Building, and maintaining, relationships is critical to social self care. Not only does it help us meet new people, it also helps us improve our existing relationships.

Boundaries in our relationships help keep us safe. These include emotional, physical, material and intellectual boundaries. We also need to learn what others boundaries are and respect them. Learn about their importance, and how to set them, here.

Humans are social creatures, so understand how to take care of ourselves in social scenarios is critical to self care. Get an overview of this here.

A self care plan is something we put together to support our self care. By thinking through how we'll perform self care, we make it much easier to actually do it.

Here we'll review a self care plan I created. Check out the template in the resources for your copy. You don't have to use all of it - feel free to remove the pieces you don't want to use.

Wrap up everything we've learned about self care.