Finding Time for Self-Care During the Holidays

Self-care during the holidays can help you reduce your stress and help you slow down. Finding time for self-care can make you feel a little bit more relaxed before your guests arrive. Also, practicing self-care can help you feel comfortable and feel calm before your workplace holiday party. To do self-care, you can make a reminder using your cellphone calendar. Also, by using your paper calendar to remind you to do self-care the day before the party. 

Managing stress that makes you feel negative emotions can permit you to accept those emotions. As well as making you feel more positive stress that can make you feel better. Practice self-care as a tool to make you feel positive stress. Positive stress are moments that make you feel accomplished and motivated. It also helps you to elevate your mood and feel good through self-care. 

Additionally, you can do self-care for two or three hours before going to your family holiday party or workplace holiday party. Begin by not scheduling too many appointments, reservations, or attending too many events on the same day. Keep in mind that you need to get enough sleep and managing your time can help you focus on self-care. Learning to relax might not be easy especially if you want to complete everything before the New Year begins. Yet, practicing self-care during the holidays can help you slow down and feel less tension. 

Self-care can help you enjoy spending time with your family or friends. As well as taking a break as a caregiver as you enjoy the holidays with them. Nonetheless, reserve thirty minutes or two hours for yourself in the morning or in the afternoon. In addition to reserving time for yourself, find a relaxing activity to help you feel optimistic. Here is my list of self-care activities during the holidays. 

1. Wear holiday pajamas or seasonal pajamas as you do self-care activities. 
2. Drinking hot cocoa or hot apple cider as you do a crossword puzzle or a word search. 
3. Buy yourself a self-care gift such as a coloring book, a crossword puzzle book, or other word games. 
4. Drink egg nog with cinnamon or nutmeg and read a seasonal book. 
5. Take a bath with ginger soap, vanilla soap, peppermint, jasmine, or other seasonal soap. 
6. Drink hot tea and work on a puzzle or write a short poem. 
7. Find a holiday card that makes you feel inspired and encourages you to continue feeling joyful. 
8. Send yourself a holiday greeting card online or in the mail.
9. Make handmade cards, paint, draw, or do activities that make you feel creative. 
10. Dance, aerobics, or movement meditation to relax and to improve your mood. 
11. Take a walk inside your home with seasonal essential oils in a diffuser. 
12. Elevate your feet if you are feeling tired.
13. Frame a holiday card that makes you feel joy and motivation. 
14. Sit down or lay down to listen to instrumental music with your eyes closed.
15. Write a winter story and record your story. 
16. Print out an encouraging email, online greeting card, or an inspirational message that you receive from others and read it for encouragement. 
17. Play a card game, make a mosaic, or paint your mugs with kind words. 
18. Listen to a story application or an audio book.
19. Listen to a guided meditation for thirty minutes. 
20. Read inspiring articles, books, or documentaries that make you feel optimistic. 

Add more self-care activities and enjoy your positive stress that makes you feel better. Find clothes for your self-care routine. Practice self-care at night to help you improve your sleep and to feel fewer negative emotions. Try one or three self-care activities per day to feel peace, joy, and kindness. Here are websites with self-care tips for the holidays. 

Self-Care for the Holidays:

https://jedfoundation.org/resource/self-care-for-the-holidays/

Be More with Less-Take Care: 

https://bemorewithless.com/take-care/

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