self care – Page 4 – three good words

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How do you unwind after a demanding day?

Long hot shower. Good food. Some entertainment. Bed.

#r&r

Describe one positive change you have made in your life.

Write a little bit every day.

Setting apart a little time each day to be creative is like chicken soup for the soul: soothing, strengthening, and warm.

#writing

How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

Slow down. Breathe. Enjoy the sunshine. Go swim. See the sights. Connect with that person.

Do that thing you always wanted to do.

If you can’t, what’s holding you back? Figure that out.

Then go and find out which underpaid single mother already did what you always wanted to do, and follow her lead.

Daily Affirmations, if wanted:

• Your life is a garden: Water what nourishes, remove what poisons, and be mindful of the weeds, they pop up regularly.

• Grow at your own pace. There’s only one you.

• Rest well: It takes time to recuperate, and you need it, body and soul.

• Take that time off you’ve been meaning to take, and do something positive you genuinely enjoy.

• Give people their flowers when they’re around to receive them.

• Be a good friend. That sometimes means saying, “Thus far and no further,” and meaning it.

• Boundaries: Yours and others. Respect them.

• Read at least one book of fiction every year. You don’t have to tell anybody about it. Just enjoy the experience.

• Find that music album Younger You loved and listen to it all the way through.

#humpday

Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?

There is something magical about a person who, despite all attempts to stop them, stays true to who they really are.

Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

A good education is like a harvest of plenty:

Many hands have to help in the planting. Many moons have to pass in the growing.

And many days are spent taking in the harvest, one life lesson at a time.

It is all a constant, communal effort.

And yet.

You won’t know just how much you needed that harvest until the Winter of Discontent arrives.

For then you see its necessity: The storms may rage, the snows and ice may isolate, but you are not alone and do indeed have plenty.

#education