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Self-care is any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional, and physical health. Think about what do I need from my self-care activity to help you know what to do: 1. Need to feel comfort or stress relief 2. Need to feel awe 3. Need to not think 4. Need to feel heard Other questions that might help you think about self-care ideas: - What did I enjoy doing as a child when I had nothing to amuse myself? - What am I drawn to in my online habits or in the real world? - What have I found myself doing in the past when I feel overwhelmed that has worked? - Who do I want to be with after a long, frustrating day? And what do I want from them?

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Hi White River staff. We are almost to the end. We are almost there. I can't believe that we've been doing this for so long, and I am continually so impressed with the staff in this school district, and the ways that they are reaching students. I just wanted you to know that. Today I want to talk a little bit about self-care. Self-care is any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional, and physical health. I don't know about you guys but I've been doing a little bit of self-care whack-a-mole lately! I feel like there's just been a lot more stressors coming up. More frequent, and more intense, and I'm just they come up, and I'm like, "Boom. Self-care I'm going to take a bath",  "Boom. I'm going to go talk to somebody", boom, and I'm just like trying to whack everything and trying to get my, you know, my stress, whirling thoughts, my exhaustion under control and sometimes it's just not working. We are just in a constant state of stress at the moment. I want to talk about self-care, but also acknowledge that it's okay if you feel stressed, and if you're not doing it perfectly, taking care of yourself. I wanted to give you maybe a different perspective on self-care. Rather than give you some ideas about what you should do for self-care, I thought maybe helping you to understand about doing self-care more intentionally. Instead of just picking one or two things that you like to do to take care of yourself it can be helpful to think about what is the need behind the self care, that I'm going to do. There's four different areas that you might have a need. Number one is you have a need to feel comfort or stress relief. Is that the thing that you really need right now? Is it to feel more comfortable and stress relief? Does your body need just to calm down and feel relaxation? You know things that you can do for relaxation, we kind of all know these things, but we all have our different things that we like to do. Maybe it taking a bath or a shower, exercizing, eating good food, having physical touch - we all have our things that we really like, that make us feel, our bodies feel, better. So that's number one. The need to fill comfort or stress relief. Number two. Do you, are you, feeling kind of just numb and blah, and do you have a need to feel a sense of awe? Do you need to get in touch with something that amazes you or is maybe mysterious to you? So things like getting out into nature, reading a book that inspires you, or watching a movie that provokes you, maybe having a spiritual experience. Things like that that create a sense of awe and something bigger than what's going on in the current moment. The third thing is, do you have a need not to think? So maybe it's not about necessarly stress or comfort, but is your brain too full? Is your brain overwhelmed, and do you need to distract yourself to check out. So things like meditating, exercise, you know listening to music. Something that takes your brain away from the thoughts that you're currently having. And then the last need is, do you have I need to feel heard are you just feeling kind of lonely do you just do like or maybe you're not lonely but maybe no one you don't feel understood by the people around you or you feel like nothing you're doing really matters you know so when you're feeling that need have you heard talking to somebody may be reaching out and helping someone feeling and by doing that feeling more connected yourself maybe it's more about internally understanding so journaling and understanding your own so those are the Ford needs that you might be having when you're thinking about doing a self-care activity some other questions that might help you to think of self-care activities that might be helpful to you either for question then I'll leave you with what did you enjoy doing as a as a little kid when you had nothing to do to amuse yourself and think about when you were playing by yourself what did you do did you like and I can leave you to think about maybe a what are you drawn to now in your habit you know either online or in the real world things that you enjoy looking at listening to what have you found yourself doing in the past when you die overwhelmed and then who do you after a long frustrating day and not only that but from them and making that known to that person what's going on do you want them to ask you things like that I hope that gives you some ideas about health care and how you might do that in a different way this week daycare

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