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The Self-Care List: Prioritizing Your Mental, Emotional, and Physical Health
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items In addition to therapy and psychiatry which I do recommend, here are some coping mechanisms and tools I personally use to help take care of myself the best I can. Remember that progress is often not linear, and a bad day or even long rough patch does...<3
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Apps and Websites
Bed and Bath
Books and Journaling
Apps and Websites
This free app is a wonderful place to document how you're feeling overtime and notice patterns of what you were doing, where you were, who you were around, etc. while you felt that way. It encourages you to find a very descriptive word (that has a sh...
How We Feel App: Cultural Impact Winner - App Store
A very cute app made by modern renaissance man Hank Green! I love the Green brothers and was really excited when I heard about the app. This app helps you focus by making a game out of being a focus timer. If you set aside time to focus and be away f...
Focus Friend by Hank Green - Apps on Google Play
Pokémon Go is a beginner friendly Pokémon game to learn about Pokémon while exercising and walking around your neighborhood. This is a fun way to motivate yourself to take walks and move your body while catching Pokémon and battling others in gyms wi...
Pokémon GO - Apps on Google Play
This app is a cute little motivator to be active and get your steps in! You get to grow a squad of pikmin to take care of and plant flowers where you walk! Walking helps take care of your body and can help with energy and stress, plus having a low-ma...
Pikmin Bloom - Apps on Google Play
Jason Stephenson has nearly 1000 videos on YouTube for guided sleep meditations to help people in different circumstances, often with anxiety and/or insomnia fall asleep with calming music and narration. This often includes guided deep and slow breat...
Jason Stephenson - Jason Stephenson Meditations
This is the website for Lavendaire (Aileen Xu) who has a channel on youtube of free guided meditations. These are awake meditations as opposed to sleep ones like Jason's. They are very sweet and gentle and help with positivity and self-love as well a...
168: Guided Meditation for Positive Energy - Lavendaire
Bed and Bath
I love taking warm baths with this epsom salt- it helps soothe muscle pain and is great for relaxing and sleeping that night. The lavender smells great. Taking some time aside to be by yourself and bathe in itself is a great act of self-care.
Dr Teal's® Soothe & Sleep Lavendar Pure Epsom Salt, 7 lb
I have a light blue and white trim version of this robe that is really soft and cozy. It has nice pockets, a tie for around the waist, and is one size fits most. It's great for being comfy around the house.
Blue Star Clothing Solid Print Evening Robe (Women's) 1 Pack
Books and Journaling
This is a great resource to journal and work through to better understand your traumatic memories and get past them overtime. This is a really effective journal to use in addition to therapy, and I do recommend this for a specific event that was trau...
The After-Trauma Notebook: Written Exposure Therapy
This is a great quality bullet journal for making yourself a calendar, planner, charts, lists, or whatever you would like. The dots help you draw out organized blurbs for whatever you need and help keep me on target for my goals. It also has a built-...
Leuchtturm 1917 Hardcover Notebook (Dotted)