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42 Simple Self-Care Tips To Turn Your Mood Around

Self Love Isn't Selfish

Shelby Klakulak

Feb 12, 2019

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42 Simple Self-Care Tips To Turn Your Mood Around

Believe it or not, taking a few moments out of your day to take care of yourself is one of the hardest things to do. We get so wrapped up in our everyday lives, from work to school or any other things that may be begging for our attention. But self-care and mental health are just as important as our physical health, yet it is something that is ignored the most.

Think about it for a moment. If your head is full of nothing but negative thoughts, you're not going to feel great about yourself. Stress can have real impacts on your body as well, like headaches, wearing down your immune system, acne, etc. Your mental health can have real and physical impacts on your body, which is why it is vital to take care of it. Showing yourself a little love isn't necessarily selfish, and even being a little selfish sometimes is a good thing! At the end of the day, you only have one body and one life left to live. You have to take care of it.

Here are just some quick and easy self-care tips to use when you're feeling down and out!

1. Drink a glass of water when you first wake up

2. Finally do that thing that's been sitting on your to-do list forever

3. Go through your social media and mute or unfollow people who make you feel bad about yourself

4. Unplug from the world for at least an hour

5. Take a few minutes to just dance

6. Splurge a little

7. Take a warm bath or a long, hot shower

8. Schedule days where you do absolutely nothing

9. Reflect on at least 3 good things that had happened during the day

10. Take a new route to school or work

11. Move for at least 30 minutes a day

12. Go for a walk or a run

13. Stretch

14. Clean and light a candle

15. Read a book or color a picture

16. Write down a list of things you are grateful for

17. Hug someone

18. Binge watch a couple episodes of your favorite tv show

19. Call a friend that you haven't talked to in awhile

20. Put towels in the dryer before your shower or bath

21. Drink some hot chocolate or tea

22. Order your favorite desert

23. Write out your feelings

24. Try a new face mask or skin routine

25. Go to bed earlier

26. Do something that makes you laugh

27. Get up early to watch the sunrise

28. Take a nap

29. Write a list of things you like about yourself

30. Buy yourself some flowers

31. Cook your favorite meal

32. Stop checking who viewed your Instagram/Snap story

33. Don't delete posts because they don't have as many likes as you'd want

34. Stop refreshing your notifications every few seconds

35. Stop reading old text messages

36. Stop believing that loving yourself means you're being selfish

37. Create a to-do list for the week and stick to it

38. Meditate

39. Find a new hobby

40. Write a letter to your future self

41. Reorganize your things

42. Take deep breaths

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42 Simple Self-Care Tips To Turn Your Mood Around

Self Love Isn't Selfish

In This Article:

1. Drink a glass of water when you first wake up

2. Finally do that thing that's been sitting on your to-do list forever

3. Go through your social media and mute or unfollow people who make you feel bad about yourself

4. Unplug from the world for at least an hour

5. Take a few minutes to just dance

6. Splurge a little

7. Take a warm bath or a long, hot shower

8. Schedule days where you do absolutely nothing

9. Reflect on at least 3 good things that had happened during the day

10. Take a new route to school or work

11. Move for at least 30 minutes a day

12. Go for a walk or a run

13. Stretch

14. Clean and light a candle

15. Read a book or color a picture

16. Write down a list of things you are grateful for

17. Hug someone

18. Binge watch a couple episodes of your favorite tv show

19. Call a friend that you haven't talked to in awhile

20. Put towels in the dryer before your shower or bath

21. Drink some hot chocolate or tea

22. Order your favorite desert

23. Write out your feelings

24. Try a new face mask or skin routine

25. Go to bed earlier

26. Do something that makes you laugh

27. Get up early to watch the sunrise

28. Take a nap

29. Write a list of things you like about yourself

30. Buy yourself some flowers

31. Cook your favorite meal

32. Stop checking who viewed your Instagram/Snap story

33. Don't delete posts because they don't have as many likes as you'd want

34. Stop refreshing your notifications every few seconds

35. Stop reading old text messages

36. Stop believing that loving yourself means you're being selfish

37. Create a to-do list for the week and stick to it

38. Meditate

39. Find a new hobby

40. Write a letter to your future self

41. Reorganize your things

42. Take deep breaths

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2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

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