4 Self-care approaches

Self-care means looking holistically at various aspects of your life that can affect your wellbeing. This section enables you to consider and reflect on your diet and nutrition, hydration, exercise, sleep, mental stimulation and socialisation and the impact of each on your mental and physical wellbeing.

Wellbeing can also increase productivity and creativeness and promote resilience, enabling an increased ability to cope with, and adapt to, new situations. Work can provide a sense of meaning and purpose in our life, especially if it means working with others and supporting others to thrive and achieve. Making daily efforts to stay well and resilient will enable you to enjoy your work as an educator and gain fulfilment. Staying motivated, well and fit situates you as a good role model for the wellbeing of those you work with. The way you understand and care for yourself may become a cornerstone of inspiration for others. This can further motivate the people you work with to do the same for themselves and towards others. You then initiate the co-creation of mentally and physical healthy communities and environments in practice.