Self Care Sunday: Essential Tips to Relax This Weekend

Your week can be long and exhausting. After all of that work, you deserve to end the week on a high note: Self-Care Sunday! This is a celebratory way to mark each week by establishing and engaging in your favorite self-care routines. A splash of this, a breath of that!

Not sure you even remember how to relax? Are you wondering, “what does self care look like?” Let’s get you familiar with the freeing, relief-bringing practices and joys of taking extensive care of the self.

What is self care and why is it important?

This activity is the act of nourishing and treating yourself in ways that promote your health and wellbeing.

You might be wondering why self care is important. The answer is simple: you have one body, mind, and spirit. Despite the distractions and stress of day-to-day life, in order to remain in prime physical and emotional health, you must nourish yourself! Self care is not selfish, it is uplifting. Your ability to recognize your own needs, through a self assessment, and work to correct those needs is essential for building a happy, healthy life.

What are the different types of self care?

In its truest essence, taking a moment to take care of your deeper needs can take form in a whole number of different ways! Sometimes the best first step to identifying your own care and health promotion needs is by performing your own assessment.

Simply reflect on your life and ask yourself questions:

Are there any areas in your life that you feel are lacking? Maybe there is an area of neglect or stress you can identify. What is it that’s bothering you about yourself right now? Is there something you have been avoiding doing for yourself? You can then create a checklist, wish list, or vision board for areas you seek improvement in for your health. These needs can be fulfilled routinely (daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly) as self-care rituals or sprinkled in among your busy schedule as an epic treat-yourself day.

Three primary categories of self care include physical, emotional & spiritual, and group/social care.

Physical self care

What is it and who needs it?

Physical self care is the process of tending to the health of your physical body, either to make your physical body feel good and relax in the immediate future or long-term future.

Everyone needs physical self care, and it is so easy to partake in it: feeding your body, washing yourself and participating in hygienic daily routines, even readjusting your position when your leg falls asleep, or your muscles ache are examples of micro physical self-care activities.

While there are more intensive forms (like exercising daily or a 7-step skin care routine), even the littlest victories towards meeting your own physical self care should be celebrated. If you have a physically demanding job, or retain anxiety in your muscles, here are some hepful tips:

Physical self-care Sunday ideas

• Have a long, relaxing bubble bath (Check out BTR bath salts and selections)
• Dress in comfy clothes
• Maybe even buy a pair of slippers or a robe!
• Try a beginner yoga class or yoga video at home
• Exercise in a way that makes you feel joy (dance, run, swim, stretch)
• Use face masks that are fun to peel off or feel refreshing/hydrating
• Try a new scrub/body wash/beauty product (like the unique coffee scrubs from BTR)
• Eat food that nourishes your body (something high in vitamins + nutrients!)
• Drink a fruit smoothie
• Sit in a patch of sunlight and let the warmth hug your skin
• Massage your arms and legs to work out kinks and/or stress

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Emotional & spiritual self care

What is it and who needs it?

Emotional and spiritual self care entails of similar self-love but is done to tend to your mind and spirit rather than your physical form. To treat yourself spiritually, repeating mantras, seeking transcendence, listening to relaxing music or stories, or participating in a form of religion or community that uplifts you can be useful tips. This form of self-care will be most useful for those who’s been feeling lost in their life journey or having difficulty with appreciating their self-worth.

Emotional self care often encompasses identifying areas where you feel emotionally distraught or unfed and fixing those gaps. For example, if you feel stressed, you might need to participate in activities that bring you joy or calm you down. If you feel anger or grief, you might need to vent or feel affirmed. Check out a few ways you can find emotional and spiritual self care!

Emotional and spiritual self-care Sunday ideas

• Start an artistic activity (check out adult coloring books at BTR)
• Start a new book
• Journal your emotions, dreams, or life challenges (it can be daily, or as needed)
• Burn sage or incense
• Take a mindfulness walk in nature
• Try meditation & moments of silence to calm your mind
• Create self-care affirmations (affirm your ability, courage, kindness, or positive traits, looking at yourself in the mirror)

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Group self-care activities

Finally, self care is not always done alone. You can organize a day for the self with your friends if you feel like that will best support ALL of you to meet each of your needs. Try these exciting and fun self-care group activities that you can do with friends, family, or strangers!

• Have a group painting session (bring wine if you so choose!)
• Have a tea brunch with your closest friends
• Share personal or family tree stories with your family to build a stronger familial bond
• Have a vision board session and each create your own self-care vision board
• Play games or board games together
• Cook a meal as a group
• Exercise or dance as a group together

Our Self-Care Sunday Thoughts for You

We hope these tips help you create the best weekend (or even daily) routines ever! When we say essential tips, we mean essential. Self care is nourishment for your holistic health and can be practiced by simply pursuing tasks that make you feel physically and emotionally healthy.

At BTR, we value our relaxation and prioritization of self care. Do you have more self-care questions? Leave them in the comments below. And check out the hot deals at www.BTR.com that can make your Self Care Sunday a weekend routine.