[CedarS]

What good thing can you do for yourself today? Choose a healthy reward or activity, let us know, we can support each other with this. Carve out some time for yourself even if your day is over-scheduled and stressful.

Me, I'm gonna boot myself out of the house and take a slow rambling walk around the neighborhood. I'll get some exercise and inspiration, listen to music.

Sarah

Great idea! I'm gunna take a yummy smelling bath momentarily. Wonderous stuff be those bath bombs!

emmy

[CedarS]

Yay for baths! My favorite stress and pain relief.

Today, I'm taking myself out for a full breakfast at a wonderful cafe. My reward and gift for myself today.

[(JD)]

I'm going to psychotherapy with my psychologist.

[CedarS]

Today I'm going to pay good attention to myself. My symptoms are up, I'm twitchy and hypervigilant, so it's time to make sure I keep my self-care and self-soothing going.

I'm pacing my activities today, doing less, making sure I don't rev up and over do it. Errands I can do another day, gonna do another day.

I'm applying compassion to myself. Being rough on myself during this time won't serve anyone or anything.

I'm going to relax, breathe, use my favorite reminder "Peace. Peaaaaaaaace.", find fun distractions.

Sarah

Great wisdom to share and wonderful self awareness you exhibit by slowing down when symptoms are up.

Merci for sharing this.

Even if it wasn't my chosen 'good for me' activity I went to my pdoc today. Took the long way home and ran the dog along the ocean so she could swim, which is good for her sore leg, and play with the other curs at dogs beach. Thank goodness for modern veterinary care! woof

[CedarS]

I gotta get to the beach soon, your run with dog sounds wonderful.

And going to our various health care folks of course counts, we might not have purposefully placed it in a certain category, but it's good for us, for sure. Sometime I want to work more on acknowledging those "little" things to myself, not just let them slide by, remind myself that I really am making choices and doing stuff good for me.

Today I am purposefully keeping myself home, except for perhaps a short walk. And I'm not going to engage in anything stressful as much as possible. Oh and I'm giving myself permission, in fact, an assignment, to do simple grounding things, like play solitaire, work a cross word puzzle, look at magazines.

Thanks for your feedback too.

i'm taking a hot bath, with yummy bath salts that i received for my birthday........

[CedarS]

Now I'm imagining all of us who want to in our baths, cozy private spaces, luxurious, all manner of choices of bath salts and bombs and bubbles and oils. Oh, oh, have any of you seen those versions of the common yellow rubber duckies for baths, devil duckies?

I've been doing well with treating myself good today, definitely helping me weather a rough episode. I promise to continue this, no pushing myself unduly to be mega active, no beating myself up mentally. Time to be simple and have fun and rest.

[(JD)]

Good for you, sarah... seems most of what I do is self care but feels like I gotta do it or else (because of all my physical probs)

[CedarS]

I'm in a similar situation perhaps, deal with physical challenges also, so self care is built into the routine of my day cause I have to do so. Helps me also sometimes to bring it up more to my awareness, also add some choices new.