10/05/2025
What is Self-Care?
The World Health Organization ( 1998) defines it as the following:
"Self-Care is what people do for themselves to establish and maintain health, and to prevent and deal with illness. It is a broad concept encompassing hygiene (general and personal), nutrition (type and quality of food eaten), lifestyle (sporting activities, leisure etc), environmental factors (living conditions, social habits, etc.) socio-economic factors (income level, cultural beliefs, etc.) and self-medication.’"
This may be daunting to address it all at once. So what can you do?
Start with small, manageable steps are key.
Step 1: Choose one of the seven pillars. It may be a pillar that you are familiar with or already working on. Recognizing what you are already doing well (and building on this) is just as important as what we want or need to change.
Step 2: What is one different self-care pillar you commit to strengthening? How will you do this? (remember: small steps :)) And when will you begin? This can align with thinking about small habits that you have.
Step 3: Integrate self-care into daily life - incorporate the 7 pillars, 7 days a week.
To learn more, look out for out FREE talk on the 24th May with Dr. Hema Kalan
