Self-care is not easy. We’ve talked about this before. A lot of people aren’t sure where to start or how to go about practicing self-care or self-love.
It’s not easy to figure out what to do if you don’t know where to start!
In light of that, here are some of the things that I enjoy doing for self-care. Hopefully, this list can spark ideas in you, too! I’ve added some suggestions under the general ideas.
More physical:
- Going for a walk
- Being out in nature
- Taking a bath
- Singing Broadway tunes in the shower
- Cooking or baking
- I LOVE decorating food
- Dancing
- Yoga/stretching
- Spending time with friends
- Help others or volunteer
- Eat your favorite comfort food
- Make a date night with yourself and go to dinner and the movies
- Lotion up!
- Love on your pets
- Drink water
- FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NAP
More mental:
- Writing
- Meditating
- Check out the Buddhify app – it’s my fav
- Listening to music
- I have a Spoonie Fighter playlist here
- Learning something new
- Watching scary movies
- Insidious
- The Conjuring
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- It Follows
- Army of Darkness (it’s B-movie scary & hilarious)
- The Omen (the original)
- Paranormal Activity
- The Woman in Black
- The Faculty
- Shaun of the Dead (again, funny)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
- Event Horizon
- Watching funny shows
- Bob’s Burgers
- The Office
- Ash vs Evil Dead
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Archer
- Read (I lean towards non-fiction, so the fiction ones are marked with F)
- The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
- Bossypants
- Rebel Buddha
- The Pain Survival Guide
- When Doctors Don’t Listen
- Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy
- The Somnambulist (F)
- The Atlantis code (F)
- The President is a Sick Man: wherein the supposedly virtuous Grover Cleveland survives a secret surgery at sea and vilifies the courageous newspaperman who dared expose the truth
- Alif The Unseen (F)
- The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: for all of us who live with disabilities, chronic pain, and illness
- The Monster of Florence
- Playing video games
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Among the Sleep
- LEGO Jurassic World
- LEGO Batman
- LEGO Harry Potter
- LEGO Star Wars
- The Last of Us
- Alice: Madness Returns
- Heavy Rain
- Puzzles and crosswords
- Paint or color
- Clean your to-do list up
- Unfriend/unfollow people you don’t like or who bring you stress
What are some things you do or some ideas you have about self-care now?