Self Care and being Mindful of this

Hi Mindfulness Community
I wanted to let you know I am back from my vacation-and missed all of you
But I needed this time away to enjoy and refocus. It was a wonderful vacation and such wonderful company and weather, and OMG so much food too
I wanted to chat a little on self care and why it's important. I do know that many of you know what it is and why we practice self care. But....how many do it 100% and not have a difficult time with it? Many of many have a hard time with taking time to care for ourselves. It is normal. Self-care is an important part of stress management. As we all know, a little bit of stress is okay, but chronic stress can cause major health problems. Self-care breaks this ongoing cycle of stress. Self-care can also make us more effective, focused, and energetic, and can ward off a variety of health issues.
There is nothing more important on your spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.~ Pema Chödrön
How can we as a team and even a community help each other on making sure we are self caring? Do you think we can start to buddy up with a community member/listener and weekly check in with each other?
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@RumpleSteeleSkin Hi Rumple!
How are you doing today? I hope you are having a lovely Friday!
I am so glad to hear that you had such a wonderful vacation! You truly deserved it! 
How can we as a team and even a community help each other on making sure we are self caring?
We can ensure that everyone is taking care of themselves first by checking on each other as often as we can, or setting daily self-care goals to accomplish. 
Do you think we can start to buddy up with a community member/listener and weekly check in with each other?
I think that is definitely a possibility and a great idea! 
@SaimaK
Saima good to see you and thank you for ur feedback

@RumpleSteeleSkin
Welcome back!
What is this vacation thing you speak of? :D
I think check-in might be a good idea -- a good central point to share ideas, support, and so on.
@diplomaticconfucious
HI Diplomatic so a place to check in for self care and things to share with community be nice?
@RumpleSteeleSkin
I think a centralized up for check-ins would be nice. Use the check-ins with tips and hints and so forth like mindfulness does. Then the feedback from members on the larger topic helps it grow and broadens understanding or challenges thought even.
I'm not sure of the buddy-system stuff ... I'm not keen on working with someone without a bit of time getting to know them. I'm not always in the mood to be cheered on/goaded into things -- like happens in buddy-system situation. Rather have a group... unless the group becomes a mob -- then I'm out.
@RumpleSteeleSkin
Welcome back Rumple! I hope you had a great vacation and you had time to relax and rest yourself, you do so much work :D
I most definitely agree with your post - self care is SO important. Especially as everyone experiences stress, and the worst thing is ignoring your stress until it keeps building up and up and up until you can't take it anymore. And that's when self care comes in - practising self care regularly and building up a routine can help us manage our stress effectively and it has immense benefits for our mental health and wellbeing. Ah I could talk for ages about self care, it's just so important - all listeners - remember to take care of yourself before taking care of others!
I love this buddy up idea!! Hehe I saw your forum thread about it ;) mindfulness buddies would be so fun - and perhaps to increase participation and involvement in the community, each pair could create a forum post, host a discussion, or create an event or project of some sort? just a thought
Thank you for this post, I always love them. Take care 💜