Self-Care for Parents for the Holidays
Self-Care for Parents
- Practice a pause throughout your day.
- Create space for quiet and stillness.
- Model the importance of slowing down during our shortest days and longest nights.
- Light a candle or a fire.
- Walk beneath the stars.
- Unplug.
- Write a letter of gratitude to yourself.
- Say no to an event.
- Say yes to rest.
- Embrace your role as the magic keeper this holiday and have fun!
- Organize friends to go caroling at a senior home.
- Add some fir or balsam oil to your oil diffuser.
- Turn on your email's vacation responder over your holiday... or longer.
- Join the FREE LifeWays Holiday Vision mini course online December 8 & 9 and walk away knowing how to celebrate this holiday season aligned with your heart's wishes.
The last three years I have "attended" a three part Women's Winter Solstice phone call that was very lovely and nurturing by Barbara Hannelore. Each call was 30 minutes and was a perfect pause just for me during the holiday season, it begins December 4th.
Come spend 3 quiet interludes during the turning of the year, I'll be there. Barbara offers this invitation; "Settle yourself and breathe a welcome sigh of relief as you release tension and connect with the essence of the season - a time for giving to yourself as well as others, and nourishing that generous spirit within you!"
Conversation/Journal prompts
What kind of family do we want to be?
What kinds of activities bring well-being to our family?
What do you want more of this holiday?
What do you want less of this holiday?
When do I feel still and peaceful?
What kind of feeling do we want to have in our home?
In what ways can we become more service-oriented as a family?
What does enough feel like?
