A self-care plan can help you enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain professionalism
Question:
A self-care plan can help you enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and
maintain professionalism as a worker with young people.
Learn to identify activities and practices that support your wellbeing as a professional and help
you to sustain positive self-care in the long-term.
Aspects of self-care
• Self-care is a personal matter.
• Everyone's approach will be different.
• It relates to what you do at work and outside of work to look after your holistic wellbeing so
that you can meet your personal and professional commitments
- How would you relates to what you do at work and outside of work to look after your holistic wellbeing so that you can meet your personal and professional commitments?
Below are the different aspects to self-care and example strategies that other people have
found useful.
Workplace/Professional
• Physical
• Psychological
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Relationships
Words of caution:
• Once you have created a self-care plan it is important to ask yourself, "what might get in
the way?"
• What can you do to remove these barriers?
o If you can't remove them, you might want to adjust your strategies.
• Think honestly about whether any of your strategies are negative and how you can adjust
your plan to avoid or minimize their impact.
• It can be challenging if your workplace is not supportive of self-care activities, but you can
still do things outside of work to help yourself.
• It is import that your plan resonates for you and that you put it in to action starting now.
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