“Take time off…
The world will not fall apart without you” 
― Malebo Sephodi

🎯 Today’s Mission:

Today we are going to focus on some emotional self-care. 

To successfully complete today’s mission:

• ✅ Write in your journal.

• ✅ Do you keep a regular journal? Share with us in the Self-Care Challenge Support Group on Facebook.

💡 More Info:

Putting pen to paper and making your thoughts permanent on the physical plane can help you work through them and understand yourself better.

A common practice when we were young was to “keep a diary.” The practice of keeping a journal is a beneficial aspect of a healthy lifestyle for better managing stress, anxiety, and mental health conditions.

According to the University of Rochester’s Health Encyclopedia journaling can help you:

• Manage anxiety
• Reduce stress
• Cope with depression

Journaling helps control your symptoms and improve your mood by:

• Helping you prioritise problems, fears, and concerns
• Tracking any symptoms day-to-day so that you can recognise triggers and learn ways to better control them
• Providing an opportunity for positive self-talk and identifying negative thoughts and behaviours.

Some common things you might find it useful to journal about are:

• Present or past situations you feel challenged by
• Habits and patterns that you find are repeating themselves
• Habits and patterns that you want to start implementing
• Relationships: past, current and future ones you wish to foster
• Goals, ones you’ve reached or are reaching for. What’s worked?
• Motivation, and how you find it. What distracts you, why?
• Dreams, long-term dreams or the ones you have in your sleep
• Passions, interests, and hobbies
• Change and your response to it
• Growth and evaluation of how you’re growing
• Love: romantic, platonic, familial
• Your life purpose

✅ Mission Accomplished?

Fill in the form below once you’re done to keep track of your progress.