going for walks

going out with friends or family

cooking and baking

going home and spending time with my pets

• going for runs or walks

• going for drives with music on

• watching my favourite youtube channels and tv shows

• taking a calming shower

• confiding in family or friends

• meditation and yoga

• having regular self-care nights

• finding ways to create barriers and boundaries from the stresses in your life from your home/living space

Just taking that moment to think it through, will start to help you come to terms and understand the situation and your reaction to it. Overall simply incorporating that one step of thinking inward for a moment and rationalising the situation will help to remove excess stress from one's life.

• It will be okay eventually

• This journey will be worth it

• You cannot let this stop your dreams

• Think of the future patients and families

these statements as well as reminding myself how lucky I am for this opportunity help to ground me and to stop me from giving up in hard times.

For my self-care plan, I have decided to schedule a weekly self-care night, seeing my friends and family at least once a week, and 3 times a week at least I will go for a walk or a run outside. During the week I will make sure to maintain my boundaries around my school work where I do it and for how long, in hopes of keeping a balance of my time. For my self-care night, I will watch a show or video that is completely unrelated to my school subject, I will take a relaxing shower, and do one of my hobbies. Every day I will make a point of talking to or spending time with one of my friends, and get at least a little bit of fresh air, even if it is just walking to class outside rather than taking the indoor path. I will also be trying to include the radical acceptance concept into my everyday living/thinking, to help myself let go of the things and problems in my life that I cannot control but still let upset me.

I believe the new addition of this self-care plan will help my overall well-being and health quite a lot. By adding these coping mechanisms and care concepts I believe it will cause a large improvement in my mental health and stress load, and by improving my mental health and anxiety it will improve my physical and emotional health. When my mental health is struggling I find my physical health goes downhill very quickly, I feel very unmotivated and sluggish, so I tend to struggle with my eating habits as well as with getting any physical exercise or fresh air. So by improving my mental health and anxiety, I feel that it will drastically improve my overall physical health as well. With my emotional health, when I am stressed out or anxious I find that any little problem will make me break down and get upset more than I need to, so by improving my reaction to stress and problems it will help my tolerance for emotional situations and prevent me from getting unnecessarily upset. These improvements will help me tremendously within my personal life, which will in turn also improve my professional life. When you have personal issues or struggles they tend to begin to seep into your professional life as well, so by improving my personal life it will make my professional life better as well. These additions to my self-care plan will also help me specifically in nursing as it will help keep me more stable within my practice as well as help me prevent burnout from the job.