The past few months I have been trying to take better care of myself and have enacted a “self-care Sunday” where I catch-up on all that I didn’t get to during the week. I see self-care Sunday all over Instagram too so I don’t think I’m the only one using Sunday to get all my self-care in.
Self-care gets a bad rap for being all about expensive face masks and indulgent baths, but self-care is literally just taking care of yourself as an adult. I broke down my ideas into 5 different categories so my self-care ideas aren’t all beauty related. Hopefully you get an idea of something you can do for yourself to feel refreshed for the week!
Skin/Hair/Nails
- DIY Manicure or Pedicure
- Put body lotion or body oil on and let it soak in
- Get a professional massage, ask your partner to give you one or DIY it with a massage chair
- Sit in a salted bath with a hair mask
- Do the skin care you always forget to do during the week like face masks, completely take off make-up, use cleansing tools like Clarisonic or Microdermabrasion tools like PMD
- Take care of body hair by shaving areas you forget to, or plucking stray hairs, or ……
Muscles
- Do the exercise you always mean to do, but you put off
- Stretch your muscles with yoga or a foam roller
- Schedule your workout classes for the rest of the week (once it’s in the calendar it’s easier to actually do it!)
- Do yard work or housework to keep your living space beautiful and clean
- Go for a walk outside
Gut
- Meal plan for the rest of the week and buy the groceries to make those meals
- Pre-cook things that you can for your meal plan
- Start to track what you eat if you think it can help you understand your body better
- Treat yourself to brunch with or without friends
Brain
- Unsubscribe to emails, and un-bookmark websites that drain you of energy or don’t bring anything positive to your life
- Read a book, trade magazine, newspaper, news article; anything really besides your Facebook timeline
- Research something new that you don’t know a lot about and try to teach yourself so you never forget how to learn
- Keep up with a hobby
- Watch a documentary
- Take a nap to rest your brain
- Organize your house: your closet, your files, anything that will help clear your mind and make home more peaceful
Heart
- Reach out to a friend and reconnect
- Have friends over for a game night
- Cancel plans that you’re dreading going to anyways
- Journal
- Read your bible/do a bible study/go to church
- Go to therapy/schedule your therapy appointment/research therapists in your area or that your insurance would cover
- Watch “guilty pleasure” TV
- Figure out what your Meyers-Briggs letters are or your Enneagram number is so you can know yourself better
- Write out what you’re thankful for in the upcoming week