Self Care for the Holidays

Self-Care Check List

Hello Friends,

Holidays are wonderful, nostalgic, difficult, emotional, sad, exhausting, and everything in between.

I am giving everyone a way to do a daily “inventory.”  It is one way to see an overall picture of how you are doing emotionally.  You can make copies and check in daily or once a week or month depending on what is going on in your life. In high stress times, daily checking will be helpful, at other times going over this list once a month may be sufficient.

I have two rules for myself as a daily check in;  make my bed when I get up in the morning and hang up my clothes at night.  When I fail to do either of these, it is a red flag for me that something is going on that needs my attention.

You can choose four options: yes (Y), no (N), frequently (F), or seldom (S).

Am I:

__ Maintaining appropriate daily routines?

__ Setting and achieving daily and long-term goals?

__ Taking time for personal care?

__ Setting and sticking to limits with children and others?

__ Doing constructive planning?

__ Using appropriate decision-making and problem-solving efforts?

__ Choosing behaviors instead of reactive behaviors?

__ Well-rested?

__ Resentment-free?

__ Accepting (versus denying)?

__ Neither controlling others nor feeling controlled by them?

__ Open to appropriate constructive criticism and feedback?

__ Free of excessive criticism of self and others?

__ Experiencing gratitude versus self-pity and deprivation?

__ Responsible financial decisions (not over- or under-spending)?

__ Using appropriate nutrition (not over- or under-eating)?

__ Not escaping or avoiding through work, spending, sex, or relationships?

__ Being self-responsible instead of blaming others, bad luck, etc.?

__ Valuing my wants and needs?

__ Being free of anxiety and fear?

__ Being free of guilt and shame?

__ Being free of worry and obsession?