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Self-Care Reflection
Spiritual Self-Care
Weakness: Meditation
I struggle with meditation and finding a way to quiet my mind when necessary. My anxiety makes it even more difficult to allow myself to find peace of mind. For this area I would like to attempt to practice mindful breathing throughout my day and will set a reminder for myself.
Growth: Reflective alone time
I have identified reflective alone time as my area for growth because I want to be better at using my alone time to decompress and reflect on my day. By identifying the good and bad things that happened throughout my day, I can identify the things I need to work on to make life better.
Strength: Gratitude
I have always been very good at expressing gratitude toward those who help me or have sacrificed something so that I can be where I am today. It is extremely rewarding to be able to appreciate those who have helped me and allows me to see how far I've actually come. It feels so good to be able to give back and appreciate everyone and everything that has made me the person I am today.
Mental Self-Care
Weakness: Setting Goals
I find it difficult to set goals for myself to achieve on a day to day basis. I have goals that I want to achieve but they are often long term goals. I think it would be beneficial to set small daily goals to give myself a chance to enjoy each day and feel accomplished everyday.
Growth: Mindfulness
I feel that I need to improve my mindfulness more towards myself rather than to others. I am very hard on myself for my achievements and feel that I need to appreciate how far I have come and all that I have achieved in order to improve other areas of self care.
Strength: Self Talk
I engage in self talk every day because it helps me to walk myself through my day, assignments or stresses. Positive self talk is one typically successful way to motivate myself and I will continue to do it.
Choice Self-Care
Weakness: Saying No
I have always been a sort of "people pleaser" which gives me a great attitude for nursing school and the nursing profession, however, it can be a negative trait to have when I do not want to do something. I would like to be better at respectfully saying no to things that do I do not want to do.
Growth: feeding into drama
There is always a decent amount of drama in my life between my friends and it is not always healthy. I understand that drama is not healthy for me but somehow I find myself in the middle trying to negotiate between everyone and it gets exhausting. I am going to do my best to maintain a more neutral standing the next time an incident occurs.
Strength: Making Self preserving decisions
After many struggles in life I have developed a sense of decision making that is centered around decisions that benefit me. I think this helps eliminate obstacles and further difficulties from my life.
Emotional Self-Care
Weakness: Emotional Flexibility
I struggle with accepting grades or outcomes that do not meet my personal requirements which takes a tole on my confidence and other emotions that negatively effect my health. The inhibits my ability to "bounce back" quickly after a "failure." To improve this I plan to think of all of the good accomplishments I have achieved to learn to be grateful for those and distract myself from the "failure."
Growth: Self-regulation
I am very good at understanding my emotions but I have not mastered regulating them. If my stressors build up without release, I have tendency to take them out on other people. Since improving other areas of self care, I have been in better control of my emotions. Stressful weeks or situations are where I struggle a bit and hope to continue to develop the skills to control them.
Strength: Positive Outlook
I am a very positive, bubbly, and happy person and when I am surrounded by others with the same traits I flourish and am able to help bring myself and others up. Having a positive attitude improves my health all together and helps eliminate stressors.
Physical Self-Care
Weakness: Sleep & Rest
It is no surprise that nursing school is physically taxing on the body and I sometimes get caught up in the stress, anxiety, and attempt to balance social and school that I lose valuable sleep ad rest times to make up for lost time.
Growth: Exercise
I have identified exercise as my area for growth because I would like to work on my physical strength and health. I think increasing my exercise will help to strengthen other areas of of self-care. Exercise can also be an outlet for stress which may be beneficial.
Strength: Good Nutrition
I love to cook and making good food to fuel my body is one way I participate in physical self-care so that I can feel and do my best. There are sure to be days where this is difficult but I will do my best to enjoy at least one good meal a day.
Relationship Self-Care
Weakness: Declining draining activities
An important part of self-care is alone time and with the struggling balance of social life and school I find it hard to turn down activities for the fear of missing out and the fear of losing that balance. I want to get better at saying no to activities that I am not interested in to allowing myself more time to work on myself and recharging my battery.
Growth: Meaningful connections
I have a number of people that love me and support me and am typically very good at communicating that. I want to improve on having more meaningful conversations and further building and strengthening my relationships with the people I love.
Strength: Quality Time
At least once a week if not more I make plans to relax or hang out with the people I love and care about. This is one of the easiest ways for me to de-stress. I plan to continue to do this as my loved ones are on this journey with me, supporting me.