SAFA Self-Care Toolbox

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If you're ever feeling guilty for not meditating, Remember, it's hard living in a traumatised body.

The reason grounding/meditation is HARD is because it's too uncomfortable/PAINFUL/sad to be in your body. #trauma #itsnotyourfault #recovery #nomoreshame #shame #guilt

The reason you PROCRASTINATE is not because you're lazy, but because you were never taught how to REGULATE your emotions. #procrastinate #uncomfortable #feelings #emotions #emotionalregulation #regulation

Normalize loving some people from a distance. Normalize saying no without explaining yourself. Normalize forgiving some people without reconnecting with them. Normalize removing yourself from anything that irritates your soul, triggers your mental health, and lowers your vibe.

make sure your mental health is a priority this year.

"The Women in Operational Technology Group at @SellafieldLtd undertook a series of fundraising activities and raised over £1,700 recently for our women's centre. Thank you to everyone who kindly donated and give their time for such a good cause.”

The 'being unemotional' we experience now is what we had to do in childhood in order to be safe and loved. And thats BE safe and NOT feel safe. #emotions #cumbria #mentalhealth #destigmatisementalhealth #letstalk #unemotional

The over working (over achieving) we experience now is what we had to do in childhood in order to be safe and loved. #work #cumbria #mentalhealth #destigmatisementalhealth #letstalk #burnout

The hyper independence we experience now is what we had to do in childhood in order to be safe and loved. #independent #cumbria #mentalhealth #destigmatisementalhealth #letstalk

The people pleasing we experience now is what we had to do in childhood in order to be safe and loved. #peoplepleasing #cumbria #mentalhealth #destigmatisementalhealth

Something I wish I knew earlier: We don't procrastinate the work, we procrastinate the uncomfortable feelings of the work not being perfect. #adhd #perfectionism #perfection #procrastination

If you found this helpful at all. Please RT to help your followers and me <3 #anxiety #depression #anger #emotionalregulation

4 Cheap things that improved my mental health in 2022:

4. The Crappy Childhood Fairy (free daily course) Find her on Youtube. Even therapy isn't this good!! TRUST ME!! Just knowing how important regulating your emotions is, is soooo valuable! @CrappyChildhoodFairy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@CrappyChildho…

3. Walking when having difficult emotions: When I was stuck in a loop, annoyingly really helped. Especially when angry at someone crossing my boundaries. Before knowing about boundaries, I would go to a quiet place to throw rocks. Weird but helped!

2. Insight meditation app (free) Amazing app that I wish more people knew about. Thousands of free meditations and constant new ones being uploaded. Struggle to sleep? Try out a Yoga Nidra *chefs kisses*

1. Calendar diary: One with a page for each day to write down the to-do lists that are rolling around my head 1243567654321 times a day.

Depression isn’t sadness. It’s exhaustion, no motivation, numbness, no desire to do what you once loved, it’s isolation, fear, negative thoughts, anger, disappointment, irrationality. Depression and sadness are not the same thing

My biggest achievement this year was not killing myself, depression is real.