Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
A Premier Nursing, Rehabilitation & Long-Term Care Center 18 Butler Blvd. Bayville, NJ 08721 www.TallwoodsCareCenter.com 732-237-2220
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Discover Ocean County’s Fountain of Youth 527 River Ave. Lakewood, NJ 08701 www.FountainViewCareCenter.com 732-905-0700
Take The Time To Thank Yourself Written By Marissa Vega, Marketing Director tallWooDs care center & FountainVieW care center
impact the way you handle stress, lower blood pressure and give you more energy to complete daily tasks. Self-care does not have to be a grand gesture, it can simply be taking some time to focus on deep breathing techniques. Any type of activity that you enjoy and gives you a break from your daily tasks is considered self-care. Finding a personal means of self-care is important in helping you maintain positive mental health.
For the last 19 months women have been forced to make many changes to their daily routines. The pandemic has been hard on everyone, but especially hard Positive mental health enables you to be more successful in for women. Overnight, we became teachers. We had to learn how to use Zoom and Google Classroom. We had to find the balance between working from home while also being a homeschool teacher. We had to figure out how to entertain our children for an extra 8 hours a day while also keeping up with our careers. Some of us had to put our careers completely on hold to accommodate the lack of childcare. We had to keep up with work, virtual learning, domestic responsibilities, and a pandemic. The one thing most of us did not keep up with: self-care.
the other areas of your life that you can’t control. Self-care is used in many therapeutic models and practices to help patients learn to manage their anxiety and depressive symptoms. It is a clinical approach that we can learn to utilize ourselves to maintain a healthy life balance and provide mental stability. There are many different forms of self-care that you can do, it is important to find what works for you for it to be beneficial. Meditation, exercise, crafting, pampering, reading and music are just some examples of self-care.
Many women struggle with taking time to “thank themselves” for everything they do. The pandemic only made this problem worse. We spend all of our lives doing everything for everyone but we constantly neglect doing things for ourselves. Self-care is an important part of mental health. Practicing self-care for even five minutes every day can improve your mood,
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This holiday season take a minute, or even thirty, to thank yourself daily. Self-care is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves, and our overall mental health. You deserve to have that time to refresh and reboot. When you practice self-care, you are better equipped to handle everything life throws your way. If you don’t take the time to take care of yourself, who will?
November/December 2021
