What is Self Care Week 2022?
Self Care Week is the UK-wide annual awareness week, organised by the Self Care Forum, which focuses on helping people to look after their own health, and promoting self care events and activities across the country.
Self Care Week 2022 is running from 14th to 10th of November. This years theme for Self Care Week 2021 is “Exercise Self Care for Life“.
Exercise Self Care for Life
Incorporating the practise of self care into our everyday lives can help us to live as healthily as possible. And there’s evidence that suggests being as healthy as we can also help us to better cope with life’s challenges that come our way.
Self Care Week is a perfect time to think about how we live our lives and maybe make some small changes that will improve our health and wellbeing, and our family’s. Those changes could mean looking at what we eat or drink, or how much exercise we do or how much sleep we are getting. They could be about our work-life balance, because staying connected to our friends and family is also vital to our wellbeing, and theirs.
Knowing what to do and where to go for help is an important part of practising self care for life. Remember, it isn’t just the GP practice that can help, pharmacies are also health experts. They are on every High Street and can help with all sorts of ailments. Pharmacists can also signpost you to the right place for additional health advice or treatment.
Remember, NHS 111, either online or over the phone, can also be a good resource for health advice for things that are not life-threatening. And the NHS website has lots of information on what steps to take to look after you and your family. The Self Care Forum also has some useful fact sheets you might like to download, including; home care is the best care, making over your medicine cabinet and symptoms which your pharmacist can help with.
The important thing to remember is, practising self care is something we all need to do every day. For ourselves. For our families. And for the NHS.
What can wellbeinginfo.org do to support my Self-Care?
wellbeinginfo.org is a directory of services and information across Sunderland and South Tyneside which aims to help you to look after your own health and wellbeing by signposting you to appropriate support. So if you do want to make self care a part of your everyday life but you’re not sure where to start or where to go then wellbeinginfo.org is a great place for you to start.
